Yale’s investment portfolio wasn’t dangerously unbalanced—it just needed a bit more cash. That’s the gist of Timothy J. Keating’s argument in a column posted today on Forbes.com. Prior to the financial crisis, Yale’s endowment was the envy of investment officers at colleges across the U.S.  David Swenson’s Investments Office developed a much-imitated strategy of portfolio …

Knitters, architects, and geologists make bank.

The University, alleges Michael Chao, plans to pull the rug from beneath Pierson College’s independent funding despite the lack of financial need.

New Haven will cut a bitch.

Examining Yale’s love for Youtube.

Yale’s mythic past features poverty too!

Yale isn’t alone in its poverty.

The Columbia Eye (maybe think Volume meets the New Journal?) has a graphic on their website again trying to explain the ways in which the Ivy League is poor.

This year’s report on campus sustainability, just released, counted Yale as one of 26 “campus sustainability leaders,” giving it an A-, the highest any school (including Harvard) received.

The Harvard Crimson wants you to know that, even though their endowment fell a shit-ton over the last year or so, it’s still bigger than Yale’s ever was to begin with.

I find it hard to believe we could have gotten even our now-reduced endowment using more conservative investment strategies. Anyways, I trust legendary wizards over mere bestselling authors any day.

Endowment is confusing; the graph helps.

I hate construction sites! The view from my window would be so much more appealing were Harkness not covered in a giant blue cocoon.