Janet Lorin

I'm excited to share some personal news! For the next academic year starting in August, I’ll be at back @Columbia researching the wealth and financial inequities behind some U.S. colleges.

Billionaires are aging. Their kids are being asked to help give away billions in family wealth bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @AmandaGordon

.@MikeBloomberg: Schools have spent billions of taxpayer dollars preparing kids for a digital future. The result? Students are spending more time than ever on screens bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via @opinion

Some Harvard faculty want a deal with the Trump administration: “There are plenty of things that Harvard could be doing and should be doing. To go ahead and do them is not caving. It’s making the university better.'' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Harvard warned that the combined cost of federal actions against the school, including a recently passed tax increase on its endowment, could approach $1 billion annually bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Read @JanetLorin on how the University of Texas system is raking it in with non-oil investments, including solar, wind, and even crypto infrastructure. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The University of Texas System grew rich from oil and natural gas over the last century. Now, it’s diversifying, bolstering revenue from the surface: wind, solar and data centers to power crypto and AI. GIFT LINK: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

House Republicans are considering increasing taxes on university endowments, a significant threat to some of the nation’s wealthiest schools as President Donald Trump seeks to tighten control over American higher education bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Northwestern University is preparing for a potential tax increase on endowments, a move its chief investment officer labeled as "destructive" for higher education institutions in the US bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

.@AAGDhillon / @HarmeetKDhillon told me she's weighing gun rights as a focus for @CivilRights as she works to reshape the division to reflect the goals of President Donald Trump’s administration. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

ICYMI: Northwestern CIO Warns of ‘Destructive’ Tax on University Funds via ⁦@mirandardavis⁩ ⁦@JanetLorin⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

First it was Yale. Now Harvard is looking at selling a slug of PE stakes in the secondary market. Story from @GillianTan and @JanetLorin bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop! Harvard University’s endowment is in advanced talks to sell roughly $1 billion of private equity fund stakes bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets @GillianTan

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Loved this line from a @JanetLorin article on endowment tax -- which could get broadened in the coming tax bill. Small colleges get hit b/c the tax is endowment divided by student. Not a single advocate of the tax said this was who the tax was aimed at. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

2025. Here we go. 😤

Duke University is getting a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons from the hit HBO show The White Lotus via @JanetLorin @hgmiller29 @business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Coffee Makers Were Betting on Lower Prices — They Were Wrong via ⁦@dayannesousa⁩ ⁦@ilenapeng⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Want to work at Bloomberg’s coolest bureau? We are hiring a consumer reporter to cover food companies. If you are driven and always looking for your next scoop, please reach out. bloomberg.avature.net/careers/JobDet…

Your children have no ability to organize, threaten to go to other families, or withhold their teeth. And yet as parents, I think we do feel some impulse to keep up with inflation. Maybe there’s something to the pure expectations channel…

With all sorts of crises looming over higher education, @bw convened five university leaders for a conversation about Trump, tuition, tests, and much more. with @A_Riley17 and @JanetLorin: bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @BW