PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Kristi Noem's proposal to put $50 million toward a need-based scholarship endowment cleared its first test in the Legislature on Monday.

NEW YORK (AP) — British-based beer and spirits maker Diageo is giving a combined $10 million to 25 historically Black colleges and universities across the United States, continuing an upswell of...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — With the Legislature shifting to the left and the pandemic exacerbating educational inequities, New Mexico Democrats say they're on the cusp of finishing a decades-long fight...

Two historically black schools in Mississippi say gifts from philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott are the biggest they’ve ever received from a single donor.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded 18 grants totaling more than $43 million to museums and other cultural institutions across the U.S. to develop exhibitions and other programs...

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Kennesaw State University is naming its College of Humanities and Social Sciences after Norman Radow after getting a $9 million gift from the real estate investor and his...

YARMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A gift of $6.4 million from an anonymous arts patron is expected to give cultural groups on Cape Cod a much-needed infusion of money early next year and for decades into the...

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The University of Georgia has established an endowment in memory of the law school's first Black graduate, who died in August.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University’s endowment has reached a record high of $4.7 billion.

The Ivy League university in Providence announced the updated figure on Thursday. School...

NEWARK, Del. (AP) — University of Delaware officials announced Thursday that they are implementing a variety of cost-cutting measures because of the financial effects of the coronavirus...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Libraries, schools, universities and nonprofits across Indiana are receiving grants to add books, digital materials and films addressing racial injustice in America.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri School of Journalism has received a $3 million donation to promote business-related journalism, the school announced Wednesday.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington is the latest state to sue the U.S. Department of Education for the way it is distributing emergency relief funds from the CARES Act to schools.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A tuition increase at the University of Michigan failed Thursday in a tie vote by the school's governing board.

The 4-4 vote was a rare public sign of tension among...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The University of Notre Dame is projecting a more than $100 million revenue shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year in part because of the coronavirus outbreak, according to...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A health group and community center will receive a combined $48 million in endowments to grow services for central Maine.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California announced Tuesday that it has divested from all fossil fuels, removing them from its $126-billion investment portfolio.

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Northwestern University has furloughed 250 workers and suspended contributions to employee retirement funds as it reports a $90 million budget shortfall due to the...

ORONO, Maine (AP) — The National Endowment for the Humanities is helping fund the first bilingual online portal to French American heritage records via a University of Maine project.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Lilly Endowment has awarded $33.5 million to United Way chapters across Indiana to help them aid families and individuals during the coronavirus pandemic.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Religious congregations large and small are being pummeled with a series of sudden financial hits that are unseen in living memory.

JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A central Illinois college will close its doors after 174 years due to declining enrollment and other financial challenges.

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Philharmonic canceled the rest of its season and a 10-concert European tour due to the new coronavirus, estimating it will have $10 million in operating losses to its...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The University of New Hampshire has launched a capital campaign that it hopes will raise up to $400 million over the next seven years.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Revisions to New Mexico's budget plan released Tuesday would set aside money for the governor's tuition-free college initiative and dial back average teacher raises to 4%...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A plan to create a $320 million state endowment for early childhood education programs won endorsement Monday by the New Mexico House of Representatives.

WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. (AP) — An Illinois woman has left a $45 million bequest to the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, which will more than double the company's endowment fund, the company announced...

PHOENIX (AP) — A California-based Native American tribe has given Arizona State University $5 million to help renovate a historic downtown Los Angeles building used by the school and set up an...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico schools, universities and other beneficiaries will share more than $1 billion from the state's permanent endowment funds.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The director of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality said Friday that the agency needs money to clean up or contain past mining waste.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Thirteen groups that serve children and young people across central Indiana have landed $54.7 million in grants from the Lilly Endowment Inc. aimed at boosting their long-term...

LAPEL, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana town is naming a street in honor of a family that gave $2.5 million toward an endowment for the community.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A company has donated a building to a Montana orchestra.

Jack and Adrea Sukin, and Robert and Sandra Sukin, made the donation to the Billings Symphony Orchestra and...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment is now the nation's second-largest private charitable foundation, trailing only the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a new analysis has...

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Officials at the University of North Alabama are getting ready to repair a campus landmark.

Part of a three-tiered fountain on a plaza at the school entrance collapsed...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri and a small Michigan college have settled a lawsuit over a multimillion-dollar bequest that required the hiring of six professors who follow an...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A University of Kentucky College of Law alumnus and his wife pledged $20 million to fund an endowment and a nonendowed gift for the school, which will officially be renamed...

MARLBORO, Vt. (AP) —

Some former faculty members of Marlboro College are working on a plan to keep the campus open following the school's announcement last month that it would close and...