
A look inside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s $472-million (so far) effort to remake higher education, and at why many in academe are not cheering.
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The Gates Effect
A look inside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s $472-million (so far) effort to remake higher education, and at why many in academe are not cheering. -
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How Gates Shapes State Higher-Education Policy
Working alongside the Lumina Foundation and through intermediaries like Complete College America, the foundation has seen unprecedented results. -
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In the Foundation ‘Echo Chamber’
Major grant makers have synchronized their goals for higher-education reform. -
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Strategic Philanthropy Comes to Higher Education
The Gates foundation is notable not only for its size but also for its approach: Define strategic goals, work closely with grantees, and expect measurable results. -
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‘Next Generation’ Grant Program Reveals a Corporate Approach
The effort is an unusual philanthropic model: It awards money to for-profits as well as nonprofits, and Gates stays engaged even after the grants are given. -
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To Shape the National Conversation, Gates and Lumina Support Journalism
Between 2006 and 2012, according to The Chronicle’s analysis, Gates gave $4.7-million in media-related grants to support coverage that included higher education. -
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A Realm of Influence
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… -
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The Gates Foundation’s Uncertain Legacy
How much have the traditional advantages of family and wealth really changed in the sweepstakes of attending and graduating from college? -
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The Price of Philanthropy
Reform efforts that shift the institution of public higher education, but not private higher education, deserve close scrutiny. -
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Data Visualization: Foundation Support for Higher Education Shares Goals, Recipients
The breadth and quantity of money granted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to higher-education projects vastly outweighs the amounts granted by the two other key supporters of higher-education reform: the Lumina Foundation and The Kresge Foundation. This graphic digs into the foundations’ grants from 2006 through 2011. -
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The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Gates Foundation
The Chronicle has worked with the Gates foundation on two stand-alone Web sites.