Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back

Re:Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money... by prepend on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:09PM (#16526794)

It’s a public policy institute, not cancer research. That should have been a substantial endowment with perpetual time scale of $5-10M/year. Considering a tenure professor is $1-200k (with overhead to take care of building) and a world class conference is $500k-1M, this should be substantial.

For comparison, the Harvard Kennedy school has a $1.2B endowment and has 500 faculty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_School_of_Gove...) so with $200M that could be 50-75 top notch professors.

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Re:Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money... by kei29ssj on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:13PM (#16526807)

Haha look at you, defending rich people for free!

Ok, yep those numbers add up to other numbers

But let’s not pretend that tells the whole story. No one here was in those meetings.

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