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Article: Brandeis sets fiscal record despite school controversies: fundraising jumps 10 percent during year of Carter's address.(NEWS)
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2007
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Brandeis University continues to break its own fundraising records despite the ongoing controversy over Middle East issues that has made its Waltham campus the focus of international attention.
While rumors abounded earlier this year that some major donors to the university had plans to withdraw or withhold funds based on their objections to President Jimmy Carter's January address, officials announced July 16 that funds raised in the 2006-07 fiscal year totaled $89.4 million in cash, a ten percent increase from last year's previous record of $81.3 million.
Brandeis officials said that throughout the fundraising year, they were not worried that the ...