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A comment on Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student loans. Parent comment

Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by Taylor_OD on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @11:22AM (#15798592)
Regardless of the validity of your claim I think the answer to your question is why would Brown be incentive to lower tuition to eliminate student loans (lower profits) if they could just ask for it from alumni (same profits and free good PR)?
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Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by okaram on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:02PM (#15799012)
Brown (and all other Ivy League-ish universities) are non-profit; they do not seek (or have) profit
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Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by krull10 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @01:05PM (#15799705)
Most universities are run like a business. They are "non-profit" but essentially they are trying to generate "profits" that raise their endowment. Larger endowments mean more $ per year to spend on faculty, admin/staff, and student services/housing. Having more faculty and better student services/housing helps recruit more and stronger students...
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Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by icebraining on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @02:04PM (#15800302)
Humphrey: Bernard, you know perfectly well there has to be some way to measure success in the Civil Service. British Leyland measure their success by the size of their profits. Or, to be more accurate, they measure the size of their failure by the size of their losses. But, we don’t have profits and losses. We have to measure our success by the size of our staff and our budget. By definition a big department is more successful than a small one.
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