(02-23-2015 09:08 AM)goldenhurricane2 Wrote:  Kind of related to this conversation, but I just saw an article on another board that shows up to date endowments - TU sitting at $1.015 billion. Great news for the university!

We took a hit when the economy "downturned" but have mostly recovered. A couple years ago, TU had a donor drive and the goal was something like $700,000,000 and they surpassed that easily -raised about $800,000,000+ for capital improvements and other programs. Some, I think went to endowment. but we are sitting pretty right now and the fact we can raise that kind of money in such a short time is why I think the university is ready to start expanding. I drove by the west side of campus near Kendall school and noticed they are beginning to demolish some of those old houses in that area. I think that will be an expansion zone for TU in the future. The neighborhood should want this because whats good for TU is going to be good for that neighborhood. IMO