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  • Ministry of Mortmain Endowments, then as Director of Censorship in the Bureau of Art, as Director of the Foundation for the

    Naguib Mahfouz - Biography 1989

  • The Sustainable Endowments Institute said that 126 of them had curtailed use of trays, some of them banishing trays only from certain dining halls, and some introducing, for example, “trayless Tuesdays.”

    The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: 2009

  • Endowments have lost 3 percent on average over the past three years.

    College endowments recovered in fiscal 2010 Daniel de Vise 2010

  • Dana Gioia, past chairman of the National Endowments for the Arts, made it clear that America "is not going to succeed through cheap labor or cheap raw materials, nor even the free flow of capital or a streamlined industrial base ... to compete successfully, this country needs creativity, ingenuity, innovation."

    John M. Eger: Pleasure Beauty and Wonder: Educating for an Uncertain age John M. Eger 2010

  • Endowments lost more value in fiscal 2009 than in any prior year since the Great Depression, according to the last annual survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund.

    College endowments recovered in fiscal 2010 Daniel de Vise 2010

  • The Sustainable Endowments Institute said that 126 of them had curtailed use of trays, some of them banishing trays only from certain dining halls, and some introducing, for example, “trayless Tuesdays.”

    Going Trayless Contributes To Campus Sustainability 2009

  • "Sustainability is increasingly becoming an area where schools are putting their best foot forward," says Mark Orlowski, founder and executive director of the Sustainable Endowments Institute, which just released itsannual report cardtracking green initiatives at 332 schools in the U.S. and Canada.

    Green Campus Movement 2009

  • More than two thirds of high school students consider a school's environmental performance when they select a university, according to the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a non-profit organization.

    On US Campuses, Major Environmental Changes 2011

  • Endowments with less than $1 billion generally held up better by putting more money in fixed income and less in alternative investments like hedge funds.

    Development 2009

  • More than two thirds of high school students consider a school's environmental performance when they select a university, according to the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a non-profit organization.

    On US Campuses, Major Environmental Changes 2011

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