endowment 
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SOURCE: NY Times
4/2/19
Humanities Endowment Announces New Grants Amid Old Threats
The grants were announced two weeks after the Trump administration released a proposed budget for fiscal 2020 that called for closure of the agency, whose activities were described as lying outside of “core federal responsibilities.”
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
3/19/19
Trump Seeks to Ax Humanities Endowment
For third year in a row, he also seeks to kill National Endowment for the Arts. Congress has rejected those proposals in the past.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
9-19-14
Historian David Kaiser rallying alums who say Harvard's paying its endowment traders too much
Kaiser and eight other members wrote to Harvard President Drew Faust demanding to know why compensation at the endowment doubled in three years.
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