{"id":5415,"date":"2025-10-15T05:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5415\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:21:06","slug":"san-diego-state-university-sets-new-records-in-enrollment-fundraising-and-endowment-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5415\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego State University sets new records in enrollment, fundraising and endowment \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego State University pulled in a record $142.2 million in private donations during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, pushing the school\u2019s endowment past the $500 million mark for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The newly released figures come less than two months after SDSU announced that fall enrollment would surpass 40,000, also a record. The applicant pool hit an unprecedented 130,000.<\/p>\n<p>Not all of the news has been good. The deep cuts the Trump administration has been making nationwide in science funding cost SDSU $29 million, just as the school was gaining momentum in that area.\u00a0But the other figures were solid.<\/p>\n<p>The $142.2 million in donations is roughly $12 million higher than it was a year ago and includes $30 million for the KPBS radio and television public broadcasting stations, SDSU said. The money is particularly important because Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.\" rel=\"nofollow\">cut<\/a> more than $1 billion from public radio stations nationwide over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurpassing the $500 million mark for the first time is a historic milestone, solidifying the long-term, sustainable future of SDSU\u2019s academic excellence and student opportunity,\u201d Adrienne Vargas, vice president for university relations, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego State University pulled in a record $142.2 million in private donations during the fiscal year that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,5906,15,181,23,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-5415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-college-area","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news","18":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}