Briefs Yale University Billions raised in record campaign

摘要

Yale University raised $3.88 billion in a five-year fundraising campaign that concluded on June 30. Ten donors gave at least $50 million to the campaign, its largest ever. Among them, private equity investor Stephen Adams and his wife, Denise, donated $100 million to make the university's graduate music school tuition-free, and former publishing executive Edward Evans donated $50 million to Yale's School of Management, which broke ground on a new campus in May. Nearly 2,000 donors gave at least $100,000. As of June 30,2010, Yale's endowment was $16.7 billion, second only to Harvard's $27.4 billion. Harvard's last campaign, concluded in 1999, raised $2.6 billion.