Talk:Financial endowment

The result of the move request was: Not moved. Sargdub (talk) 03:36, 8 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

from VfD: No more than a dictionary definition—Trevor Caira 14:53, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

If suitable, move to Wiktionary. --Wikimol 16:54, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Keep. There is a certainly an encyclopedia article to be written here about the role that endowments play in our public institutions and financial markets. Tomato 23:30, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Agree with Tomato. --Key45 00:37, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep, too. Samaritan 02:46, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Copyvio as it stands (lifted right from its source)—Trevor Caira 03:00, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Delete, moving to wiktionary if they want it. Yes, there's an article to be written about them. This is not a useful beginning to one however, and should someone need this they can find it on wiktionary or in a random dictionary. --fvw* 03:20, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)
• Keep. Can be expanded. -[[User:Ld|Ld | talk]] 05:36, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep stub as prod to writing a real article. Claim of possible copyvio seems silly: it's almost impossible to have a single-sentence definition not fall under fair use. -- Jmabel | Talk 09:27, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Obvious keep. Dan100 09:49, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

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Is this article still considered a stub? Is the VfD discussion still needed in the talk pages? --Techieman 04:48, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I added material that I would like to footnote, but since this is my first ever entry, I am not understanding how to do it. The reference to Lady Margaret is referenced here: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2004110501 The reference to the Lucasian Chair is referenced here: http://lucasianchair.org/lucasianchair.org/brief.html There is information about the first endowed chair in America (Harvard) that I did not include but may be appropriate here: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/history.html

I am hoping that others will contribute additional information on Endowed Chairs if they have it.

One final question, can a link be created so if someone types in the search box "endowed chairs" or "endowed professorships" it takes them right to this space?

Thanks --Gusnite 19:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)GusniteReply

Nice finds on the information for the first endowments! I have added the references to the article. This is where you learn how to add footnotes. Endowed chair now redirects to Financial endowment. Techieman 06:09, 9 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

In References, the link to "So Nicely Endowed" needs to be updated to http://www.newsweek.com/id/54660 instead of http://www.newsweek.com/id/39272. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.215.94.172 (talk) 02:31, 29 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

How is endowment described in financial statements?Tom Cod (talk) 21:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

The Financial endowment article and College and university endowments in the United States article are almost identical. Is there a need for both? Thanks, Alanraywiki (talk) 22:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

More needs to be said about how a financial endowment works on interest earnings rather than consuming the principal. Gautam ^Discuss 17:02, 4 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Note: Need section about legal structure. (Article is not clear. Is an endowment its own entity type under the law or it is simply a Trust that is designated to endow?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72Dino (talk • contribs) 17:57, 7 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

The Quasi-endowments section contradicts itself as to whether one can be restricted. --Stfg (talk) 09:43, 25 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

The article doesn't really say whether endowment is the TOTAL amount accumulated by and available to an institution or the size of donations they get every year. I believe it's the most important aspect of this article. My assumption is that it's the cumulative amount - it's difficult to imagine Harvard University gets 30 billion dollars every year. Is that correct? Could someone please clarify this?

I also believe the definition in the first sentence is wrong. A financial endowment is a NOT transfer of money and/or property donated to an institution. It is that money and/or property already donated and in possession of the institution. BadaBoom (talk) 00:24, 28 June 2013 (UTC)Reply