Josh Ogunleye

This weekend’s fifth annual TEDxPenn conference seeks to present 12 speakers from diverse backgrounds at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and hopes to deliver TED's motto of “Ideas Worth Spreading” to Penn's campus.

The average endowment return of 812 U.S. schools fell by over 13 percent between 2014 and 2015. Despite this, university spending grew. The 2015 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments (NCSE) revealed that, on average, endowments accrued only 2.4 percent of their value during the year, a sharp decline from the 2014 figure of 15.5 percent.