The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), the single-biggest pension-fund manager for academe and research, is pushing the companies in which it invests for more complete and clear financial reporting. TIAA-CREF has urged 1,754 major corporations to account for all stock options as expenses in their financial statements, rather than as merely […]
Washington State University is lending a group of students $1,000,000 to make money for the school, and with Richard Sias’s expertise, they just might beat the S&P 500 in the process. Sias, professor of finance and the Gary P. Brinson Chair of Investment Management, teaches his students how to understand stocks, portfolios and the market […]
Creative restructuring and adherence to the strategic plan are among the keys Washington State University leaders have used during the past several months as they worked to overcome a $25.5 million state funding shortage. It now appears the university will enter the 2002 – 03 year with the impact minimized. Will the university escape unscarred? […]
The Washington State Board of Regents approved two new degree programs during its June 14 meeting in Vancouver, including a doctoral program in communication and bachelor#s and master#s of science degrees in biotechnology. Both programs will be effective this fall. The doctoral communication program differs from other doctoral programs in its structure and content. The […]
Washington State University#s Board of Regents approved a set of tuition and fee rate increases from 4-16 percent for the 2002-03 academic year during its May 10 meeting in Pullman. Tuition increases are needed to protect quality, Karl Boemhke, budget director, told board members when he presented the tuition recommendations. “We believe we have a […]