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Yale University

Private research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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  1. people who worked here David Swensen (chief investment officer) 1985 – May 2021

Its endowment was run from 1985 to 2021 by David Swensen. In the 2008 Senate inquiry it was one of three schools that had already announced more student aid (Senate Finance Committee’s 2008 questions to 136 colleges); a Yale coach was among those named in the 2019 admissions bribery case (College admissions bribery case (Operation Varsity Blues)).

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  • David Swensen 1985 – May 2021 chief investment officer Primary record 12

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  1. 1980 David Swensen educated at Yale University
  2. 1985 – May 2021 David Swensen worked at Yale University
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  1. David Swensen’s coda, Yale University, 22 Oct 2021. Primary record
    During his 36-year term as chief investment officer, his stewardship led to $57.6 billion of investment gains for Yale and more than $21.8 billion of spending to support Yale’s operations.
  2. Yale Endowment Blasts Low-Fee Critics, Says Gains Would Lag, Bloomberg News (reprinted by Financial Advisor magazine), 10 Apr 2017. Scholarship & press
    The $25.4 billion endowment, the second largest in higher education behind Harvard, has been run since 1985 by David Swensen
  3. Self-confident yet selfless: Yale’s David Swensen dies at 67, Yale University, 6 May 2021. Primary record
    David F. Swensen ’80 Ph.D., whose revolutionary approach to managing Yale’s endowment, warmth of spirit, and personal integrity made him one of the world’s most admired institutional investors
  4. Investigations of College Admissions and Testing Bribery Scheme, U.S. Department of Justice, 12 Mar 2019. Primary record
    Athletic coaches from Yale, Stanford, USC, Wake Forest and Georgetown, among others, are implicated, as well as parents and exam administrators.
  5. Baucus, Grassley Write to 136 Colleges, Seek Details of Endowment Pay-outs, Student Aid, Senate Finance Committee, 24 Jan 2008. Primary record
    Since then, three colleges – Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth – have announced increased student aid.
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