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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.