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Thursday, August 02, 2007

One of the Authors...

...of Athens & Jerusalem, an intriguing new blog, writes that Tim Burke and UD going back and forth on university endowments today has "sparked some thoughts" of his own on the subject. I like this idea of his in particular:

[A]s for the Harvards with their $30 billion endowments — have them donate ... $1 billion to spin off a new college, a Harvard franchise. Multiply the number of colleges, in preference to goldplating the existing ones.