[PeterParker]

Columbia gets a huge windfall from a former alum who benefitted from scholarship and school-backed financial aid back in his day; (and some "one-up-manship" from Columbia on endowment goal)

Time to get that Phillip Anschutz dude on the phone...http://flamefans.com/forums/viewtopic.p ... p+anschutz

Kluge gives $400M to Columbia University

NEW YORK - Billionaire media entrepreneur John Werner Kluge is giving $400 million to Columbia University for financial aid, one of the largest gifts ever to an American university, the university announced Wednesday.

Kluge attended Columbia on scholarship and credits the opportunity with helping him become a successful broadcast entrepreneur...

...The announcement of the gift comes as Columbia pushes ahead with a campaign to raise $4 billion, specifically for financial aid and endowed faculty at its schools. With Kluge's commitment, the university has reached $2.2 billion of that goal.

As of last year, the Ivy League school had an endowment of more than $5 billion, larger than most universities but smaller than other Ivy League schools.

To read the rest: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070411/ap_ ... chool_gift

[Sly Fox]

Hey, why not work Kluge for our own benefit. We're closer to home for him than Columbia and we have a communications department that could certainly use and upgrade and endowed scholarships.

[Libertine]

Kluge attended Columbia on scholarship and credits the opportunity with helping him become a successful broadcast entrepreneur...

[Sly Fox]

I get that, Lib. But he still has plenty of money int he coffers and a strong conservative bent. It can't hurt to ask.

[jmdickens]

get Dr. Steiny to ask from the History department, he is a Columbia grad.