Endowments are independently run and the last thing the money men would do is give the admins or academics a say, or they’d fritter it all in short order, like how Larry Summers lost Harvard a cool billion dollars through ill-judged investment strategies for its operating funds.
- Mit: $26.4B
- Yale: $42.3B
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University_endowment https://news.mit.edu/2022/endowment-2022-1007