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Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:51 pm to PeleofAnalytics
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I mean this is great and all but can we look at what some of the donations to these endowments have been dedicated to? I'd be willing to bet there are a lot of restricted endowment dedications that you would not be happy about your school having. Not sure about public universities but the private universities have a majority of their endowments restricted for a particular purpose and they aren't always for a purpose you would be proud of. You get some hyper leftist throwing $500 million at your school's endowment to fund a program you are 100% against, you might prefer they give that money to some other university.
Let me 'splain it to you.
Endowments don't really mean squat, because I cannot think of a single case where they are used for athletics.
A&M and Texas benefit from oil fields in west Texas in a ratio of 2/3 Texas and 1/3 A&M. So both have monstrous endowments, but neither are using them for anything other than academics.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:00 pm to HunterDawg
aTm's and UT's endowments are "system-wide" though, not just their main campus location.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:08 pm to PeleofAnalytics
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I mean this is great and all but can we look at what some of the donations to these endowments have been dedicated to? I'd be willing to bet there are a lot of restricted endowment dedications that you would not be happy about your school having. Not sure about public universities but the private universities have a majority of their endowments restricted for a particular purpose and they aren't always for a purpose you would be proud of. You get some hyper leftist throwing $500 million at your school's endowment to fund a program you are 100% against, you might prefer they give that money to some other university.
Give us some examples.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:15 pm to Ramblin American
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aTm's and UT's endowments are "system-wide" though, not just their main campus location.
Nope. This is for Austin and College Station. Satellite campuses have miniscule share of the endowment.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:30 pm to ColoradoElkHerd
Nope, youse be wrongs bro, haha. Those are "system-wide" numbers.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:20 am to Ramblin American
From a graduate, that is the total endowment with the loaf of bread going to Austin and College Station with crumbs on the edges dedicated for satellite campuses.
Aggies are currently taking in some existing out of town school campuses into their satellite systems and if that meant those new campuses got any meaningful share of the endowment there is no way in hell that would be happening.
Aggies are currently taking in some existing out of town school campuses into their satellite systems and if that meant those new campuses got any meaningful share of the endowment there is no way in hell that would be happening.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 1:05 am to ColoradoElkHerd
Incorrect. Originally it was Austin, Galveston, College Station, but when the Systems were created in 1970, the A&M and Texas shares were split among the system campuses. Prairie View A&M has a dedicated share of A&M’s portion. The endowment cannot itself be spent, only the interest, and it is only spent on physical construction. Academics are funded by appropriations from the Legislature and tuition.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 1:08 am to HunterDawg
It’s Texas and then Harvard or vice versa depends on price of oil Faggies
Posted on 7/1/25 at 6:40 am to DownSouthJukin
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All that Arab oil money pumping up those A&M numbers.
Which is ironic because they would throw the A&M milkmen off of roofs over there.
And they'd call the police on the Arabs for walking down the streets in College Station because they are brown....
Posted on 7/1/25 at 8:06 am to bigDgator
Well, it figures Texas A&M would do that same stupid stuff that Ohio State does with the "the".
Posted on 7/1/25 at 8:24 am to koreandawg
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Well, it figures Texas A&M would do that same stupid stuff that Ohio State does with the "the".
I have actually never seen them do that before. I think that is a mistake by whoever did this graph, but who knows.
Ags do y'all ever call yourselves The Texas A&M University?
Posted on 7/1/25 at 10:19 am to cjohn
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Let me 'splain it to you.
Endowments don't really mean squat, because I cannot think of a single case where they are used for athletics.
A&M and Texas benefit from oil fields in west Texas in a ratio of 2/3 Texas and 1/3 A&M. So both have monstrous endowments, but neither are using them for anything other than academics.
Let me 'splain a bit to you.
I never once in my entire comment implied that endowments are used for athletics. I didn't even get in the ballpark. I said many are dedicated to programs that some people are not proud of (things that go against someone's morals like the creation of a department dedicated to critical race theory). But thanks for setting me straight on something I never came close to saying.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 10:35 am to Clark14
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Give us some examples.
So Michigan has a restricted endowment that dedicates money to the George Floyd Memorial Scholarship. A scholarship named after someone who had a very long rap sheet and didn't seem to have many redeeming qualities as a human being.
Black Lives Matter has made several donations to restricted endowments that have created a BLM Foundations HBCU Ambassador Program. I'd imagine many people would think that this Program may promote ideas that they don't think are correct.
Read up on the California Endowment. They make donations to several public university endowments in California that are dedicated to trans "healthcare" amongst other programs some people may not agree with.
The Sawyer Padro Endowment Fund for LGBTQ+ healthcare at the University of Cincinnati. They train physicians in transgender care.
There are thousands more but I hope this helps
Some people might not be beating their chest about their university being involved in these programs.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 10:38 am to skrayper
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As someone who lives nearby, I was initially surprised at how high up UVA is on that list... but after finally getting a chance to visit the campus, I get it.
I think they copy the Ivy League model here. UVA is very advanced in this department.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 10:48 am to bigDgator
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Ags do y'all ever call yourselves The Texas A&M University?
No. That would be stupid.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:36 pm to Buster83
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No. That would be stupid.
My apologies.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 1:21 pm to HunterDawg
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Texas A&M University - $18,128,516,595
All that money and still can't win a national title in men's major sport.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 1:47 pm to DownSouthJukin
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All that Merican oil money pumping up those A&M numbers.
FIFY
TAMU and Utx are sucking on the PUF teat.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 2:08 pm to PeleofAnalytics
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Some people might not be beating their chest about their university being involved in these programs.
Or care.
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