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Carleton issues statement on finances

October 8, 2008 – 7:46 am

Higher education institutions across the nation, including Carleton College, have money invested in Commonfund’s floundering “Short Term Fund.”
But so far, Carleton administrators said they are far from panicked.
“Recent developments in the financial markets have caused for many of us confusion and uncertainty,” Carleton President Robert A. Oden Jr. wrote of the matter in a message [...]

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St. Olaf says no more money for other non-profits

October 2, 2008 – 10:20 pm

Saint Olaf College administrators have decided to stop donating the institution’s money to Northfield non-profits.
“It’s ethically troubling in hard economic times, with rising costs of higher education, to take tuition money and capriciously gift that to other non-profits,” Steve Blodgett, Director of Marketing and Communications, said on Thursday

David Anderson, college president, met with the city’s [...]

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