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by jimnotgym 478 days ago
From the article

> Together with all of American higher education, Cornell is entering a time of significant financial uncertainty

From Wikipedia

>As of 2024, Cornell University has an endowment of $10.7 billion

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Check the top discussion for some perspective on what that really means. This barely covers two years of operation, funds have a lot of use restrictions by donors, and you can only spend cash once.
I'm more than aware of that. It gives one considerable flexibility however to have such a large fund. There is no suggestion in the discussions that the College will lose all of its other income, this would allow considerable time to weather and temporary storm