The Obama adminisration, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Lumina Foundation all agree: Colleges must produce more graduates, at a lower cost. That alignment in thinking is reflected in the flow of employees among the foundation and the federal government. This year, Mildred Otero, a postsecondary program officer, left the Gates foundation to become education counsel to the chairman of the Senate education committee. Around the same time, the Lumina Foundation recruited Zakiya Smith, the president’s top higher-education adviser, and Julie Peller, a key Democratic congressional aide, to head up its new Washington office. The chart below highlights some recent moves among the two foundations, their grantees, and government offices.
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