Addressing Endowment Concerns

In his opinion piece “Seeing Double” last week, Thomas Brodey ’22 correctly argues that Amherst College should spend aggressively from its endowment to achieve its ambitious and wide-ranging mission. He is right to highlight that the college benefits from one of the largest endowments, on a per student basis, of any college or university. (It is in the top 10 — much lower than that of Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Stanford and MIT, and about the same as Pomona, Swarthmore and Williams.) As a result,