Endowment

[tornado]

I guess I am a bit puzzled...but

as of March 2013 the Bradley endowment stood at $264 million

http://www.bradley.edu/academic/cio/senate/documents/20122013/May+2013+agenda+minutes+final.pdf

then in May 2014 it was stated as $290 million

http://www.dacbond.com/dacContent/doc.jsp?id=0900bbc78013c6cc

but a brand new listing created by Bradley within the past couple months now states the endowment is $184.9 million

https://www.linkedin.com/edu/bradley-university-18246

anyone know the relevant facts?

[Vent]

Does anybody really know what's going on at the hilltop? The Board of Trustees don't.

[tornado]

twice recently, lack of transparency has been addressed - once by the BU Scout and once by the Board of Trustees - but not a whisper of it anywhere in the local media

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=300030&highlight=transparency+openness#post300030

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=301199&highlight=transparency#post301199

[Vent]

Or a whisper as to how the Board of Trustees plan to deal with it.

[TheRookie]

Endowment

I guess I am a bit puzzled...but

as of March 2013 the Bradley endowment stood at $264 million

http://www.bradley.edu/academic/cio/senate/documents/20122013/May+2013+agenda+minutes+final.pdf

then in May 2014 it was stated as $290 million

http://www.dacbond.com/dacContent/doc.jsp?id=0900bbc78013c6cc

but a brand new listing created by Bradley within the past couple months now states the endowment is $184.9 million

https://www.linkedin.com/edu/bradley-university-18246

anyone know the relevant facts?

Tornado. I'm n o t sure what you saw in the last link. I see $293M.

[tornado]

well Rookie - very interesting -- someone must be reading this discussion and made changes...
While it does say that now, that has just been changed since I posted the link earlier this morning - someone maybe saw this discussion and corrected it...

Here's a link to how that page looked just a few hours ago...so whatever....
Hmmmm....if it changed just this morning that what does that tell ya??

"The university has endowment assets of $184.9 million."

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7gjEX51_c24J:https://lk.linkedin.com/edu/bradley-university-18246+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[Da Coach]

I can verify that just 2 hours ago that site read that the endowment was $184.9 million.

It must have been a mistake, and someone at Bradley probably saw it posted here, realized the mistake, and corrected it.

[tornado]

I have received some updated information...

in an official Bradley University document titled "Bradley University Supplemental Information Related to Bond Issuance" - dated November 2014...
there appears to be a lot of financial info in the form of a report - that perhaps must be reported in order to comply with terms of previous bonds that have been issued.
It confirms that on May 31, 2014 the endowment was $290.0 million then states that as of 9/30/2014 the Bradley Endowment is $288.1 million.