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Harvard Endowment and Japanese Universities
Recent news of Harvard University's record-breaking endowment of $35 billion dollars got me thinking about the lack of healthy endowments at Japanese universities. Take a stroll around any Japanese university campus and look for buildings, programs, libraries or professorships named after donors, and you probably will find nothing.
In an essay online at the GLOCOM site, I present data comparing donations at US and Japanese universities, and argue that this situation needs to change in Japan to begin to make positive reforms in higher education in general. See:
"Harvard Endowment Points One Way Forward for Struggling Japanese Universities"
August 29, 2007 in Education | Permalink
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