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“Time turns us all into conservationists,” the philosopher Erich Hatala Matthes observes. “If we want to save the things we cherish from time’s ravages, then we need to preserve them, conserve them.”

Petra Rivera-Rideau, who codeveloped and teaches a course on Bad Bunny, says she is impressed how the artist continues to center and advocate for Puerto Rico. “He doesn’t have to do this,” she said.

Fourteen such colleges were originally facing tax rates as high as 21 percent on their annual endowment returns. Now they’re getting millions of dollars back, according to economist Phillip Levine.

“The institutions that are ultimately going to be affected are the ones who’ve been under the microscope,” said Phillip Levine. “I don’t think it’s actually a surprise it’s been designed that way.”

Levi Mngomezulu, 11, makes his professional debut in ‘Kufre N’ Quay’, a play about a Nigerian boy navigating life in New York, written by Mfoniso Udofia ’06 as part of her nine-play UFOT Family Cycle.

Georgia Pellegrini '03 receives a 2025 Daytime Emmy Award Nomination for her show “Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini.”

The new bill is “a major blow to the future of the clean energy industry in the U.S.,” said environmental studies professor Jay Turner, who maintains a database of U.S. battery and EV investments.

Trewstar founder Beth Stewart ’78 may have been an unlikely director at the time, but her time at Goldman Sachs prepared her for the opportunity. Now she’s opening the door for others.

Economist Phillip Levine estimated that just 16 universities will pay the increased endowment tax, with Harvard taking the greatest hit at $267 million USD a year based on past investment earnings.