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No, but most of them are. The restrictions on a very few funds are so narrowly defined that an allocation to associated costs from the annual distribution is not made. More common are funds not dedicated to any particular cost-generating program, but which support general institutional objectives and therefore have no identifiable associated costs. Examples of this are funds without restriction as to use of the distributed income (such as endowments supporting the Alumni Fund) and funds supporting the physical plant. Finally, while financial aid administration is a significant cost, distributions from funds supporting scholarships in effect substitute for student tuition and these funds are therefore treated for associated cost purposes in the same manner as those supporting general institutional objectives.
The Associated Program Cost principle pertains to activities in the professional schools as in other areas. The deans of the professional schools are however, in their discretion, allocating the Associated Program Cost component of their annual endowment distributions back to Direct Program Cost accounts. They retain the discretion to alter this policy in the future.
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