Tag: Major donors
What do universities owe their big donors? Less than you might...
Ellen P. Aprill, Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Jill Horwitz, University of California, Los Angeles
Exchanging gifts with...
What do universities owe their big donors? Less than you might...
Ellen P. Aprill, Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Jill Horwitz, University of California, Los Angeles
Exchanging gifts with...
The 50 biggest US donors gave or pledged nearly $28 billion...
David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Elizabeth J. Dale, Seattle University, and Jasmine McGinnis Johnson, George Washington University
Philanthropists seeking to fix big problems must tread carefully – here’s...
p>How should wealthy people respond to daunting problems like racism, economic inequality and climate change? Leading thinkers have long questioned whether philanthropy offers...
Should Elon Musk try to solve the problem of world hunger...
Jessica Eise, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Elon Musk hinted on Oct. 31, 2021, perhaps jokingly, that...
5 ways MacKenzie Scott’s $5.8 billion commitment to social and economic...
Elizabeth J. Dale, Seattle University
The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced on Dec. 15 that she had given almost US$4.2 billion to hundreds of...
The pitfalls of hospitals seeking donations from their rich patients
Sara Konrath, IUPUI and Reshma Jagsi, University of Michigan
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How higher ed can deal with ethical questions over its disgraced...
Deni Elliott, University of South Florida
Private donors are giving colleges and universities record amounts of money – along with increasingly frequent bouts of public...
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The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
