Well Endowed?

“The Trump administration is freezing $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern University and more than $1 billion in funding to Cornell University, a White House official told CNN.” Trump administration freezes $1 billion in funding for Cornell University, $790 million for Northwestern University.

+ Vox: Why aren’t universities using their billion-dollar endowments to fight Trump? “The handful of institutions at the top of the higher education pyramid have to decide, sooner rather than later, whether to use the fortunes they inherited to stand up on behalf of millions of students, faculty, and workers nationwide, and defend the values of intellectual freedom that have produced the greatest higher education system in the world. It may be risky, and expensive, and not what anyone signed up for. But those are the circumstances that require courage most of all.”