Dartmouth College gets $10 million donation

[TexasTowelie]

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) Dartmouth College has received a $10 million donation that will go toward a range of projects including the development of an arts district and faculty recruitment.

The college on Friday announced it had received the donation from Dartmouth alumni Molly and Gregg Engles. A Dartmouth trustee, Gregg Engles is a founding partner of Capitol Peak Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm. Gregg and Molly Engles have served on the President's Leadership Council.

The donation is going to what the college is calling The Call to Lead: a Campaign for Dartmouth. As of Tuesday, it received commitments of more than $2 billion. With a goal of $3 billion, the college has described the campaign is the most ambitious academic investment in its 250-year history. It will benefit all five Dartmouth schools.

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[erronis]

1. Wunnerful, wunnerful. Another institution of higher learning purchased by a mega-millionaire.

I've witnessed a whole lot of universities accepting huge donations and also seen their missions changed by the donors.

How about a general fund to help all schools instead of endowing ones that are already doing pretty well, thank you? Across the river Vermont is seeing 3 of its 18 colleges being shuttered this year because of funding.

I'm not sure we need more MBAs or even advanced STEM degrees. I do think we need better resources at the preschool and throughout high-school levels as well as trade schools and OJT support.

[Mopar151]

2. A drop in the bucket, for The Big Green

Do you know what REAL MONEY looks like? My sister is an alumni, who lives and works in Hanover, NH. That pocket universe, is on another economic scale.