Education
January 14, 2016 at 10:54 am
A USA Today report found that 29 colleges and universities spent a combined average of $2.5 million a year on large-format graphics to decorate athletics facilities. The schools say they help with recruiting of players and donors. Critics say they're a waste of funds better spent elsewhere. But what do facility graphics really mean for these schools' bottom lines?...
November 30, 2015 at 11:38 am
Can philanthropy be taught in a classroom? And would philanthropic donors armed with MBAs in impact and effectiveness actually be a good thing for the voluntary sector? Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett thinks so. He’s spent the last three years setting up the London School of Economics' (LSE) new Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship. Having…
November 23, 2015 at 9:35 am
A proposal to create a new center at Western Carolina University using $2 million from the Charles Koch Foundation is generating concern among some faculty at Western Carolina University. The proposed Center for the Study of Free Enterprise would be funded, in part, with money from the foundation created by Charles Koch, CEO of Koch…
November 13, 2015 at 8:37 am
Public U.S. colleges are growing more ambitious in the philanthropy race. A $4 billion fundraising campaign unveiled last week at Texas A&M University ranks as one of the largest ever, as top public schools try to offset declining state and federal funding and stay competitive with private counterparts with longer track records of tapping donations.…
November 10, 2015 at 6:00 am
Several University of Missouri organizations, including the football team and the student association, saw their demand met Monday when university system president Tim Wolfe announced he was stepping down amid a controversy over race relations at the school's main campus. Saying he takes "full responsibility for the inaction that has occurred," he asked that the…
November 9, 2015 at 9:03 am
The 20-year partnership between Seattle Public Schools and the Alliance for Education, its fundraising arm, will be significantly restructured. The School Board voted six to one Wednesday to empower the superintendent to end the district’s formal relationship with the alliance. But board President Sherry Carr said she was open to working with it on a…
November 6, 2015 at 10:01 am
Texas A&M University has announced an ambitious fundraising goal unrivaled in Texas in the hopes it can capitalize on recent successes that have drawn the national spotlight to College Station. Campus president Michael K. Young on Thursday announced the university aims to raise $4 billion by 2020, the largest comprehensive fundraising campaign ever announced in…
November 4, 2015 at 10:16 am
In a decision that will affect fundraising efforts for THON 2016, the Penn State Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon has canceled the third canning weekend of the season. One of the two main reasons for the cancellation is the inability to ensure volunteer travel safety. The second reason is “forced fundraising,” a term coming from a…
November 4, 2015 at 9:57 am
Brown University announced Monday that is has received a $50 million gift from a consortium of donors to fund construction of a new building and hire new faculty to expand the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International and Public Affairs. About $25 million will be used for a new 20,000-square-foot building to accommodate additional faculty…
November 3, 2015 at 10:10 am
Back in July, Joan Weill, the wife of Citigroup billionaire Sandy Weill, announced she and her husband would donate $20 million to a small, cash-strapped school called Paul Smith's College in New York's Adirondack Mountains with one big string attached: She insisted that the school would have to be renamed in her honor, to forever be…
