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Executive Editor, Money, Markets, Crypto at Forbes by day. Dad, guitar, harmonica and uke player by night. My book: The Warren Buffetts Next Door (Wiley, 2011)

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By Matt Schifrin 
| Forbes Japan
米国の私立大学は、利益を目的とする営利大学と、利益を関係者に分配せず教育に再投資する非営利大学に分かれる。本稿が扱うのは、後者の非営利大学だ。ハーバードやハワード大学などが該当し、全米に900校以上ある。日本の私立大学（学校法人）も同様の構造で、剰余金を理事や関係者個人に分配できず、教育・研究に充てる。米国の私立非営利大学は、この点で日本の学校法人に近い。 米国の非営利大学は、学生の授業料と、寄付を積み立てた「基金（エンダウメント）」の運用益で経営を支える。基金は元本を守り、取り崩しは年5％以下に抑えるのが原則だ。ところが今、この基金を取り崩さなければ運営できない非営利大学が、数百校に上る。 背景にあるのは、高校卒業者数の急減だ。2008年の景気後退期に出生数が落ち込み、その世代が大学進学年齢を迎えている。高額な学費を避け、安価な公立大学に流れる動きも重なる。 同じ非営利大学でも、明暗ははっきり分かれる。アイビーリーグのような難関校が寄付を集めて潤う一方、知名度の低い中堅以下の大学は基金を食いつぶしながら延命している。...
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Financial Report Card: The Weakest And Strongest Private Colleges In America

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By Matt Schifrin 
| Forbes
In September 2016, economics professor Matthew Hendricks and some 3,000 other employees at the University of Tulsa received a disturbing email from the administration. The small private research university would no longer be funding its retirement plan and 43 staff members would lose their jobs. Hendricks, who taught econometrics with a specialty in education, was perplexed as to why the well-endowed college was taking these seemingly drastic measures.
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Forbes 2026 College Financial Grades: How We Calculate The GPA’s

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By Matt Schifrin 
| Forbes
"Alma Mater" sculpture designed by Daniel Chester French in front of the library building on New York City's Columbia University campus grounds. getty Forbes College Financial Grades are designed to assess a private not-for-profit college’s operational soundness and balance sheet health using the following ten measures.
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