”Advocacy Philanthropy” and the Public Policy Agenda: The Role of Modern Foundations in American Higher Education

• In Event: Policy Learning and Change in the United States

Abstract

In this paper we examine the changing role of philanthropy in higher education and the ways in which these changes may be subverting conventional state and federal higher education policy channels. Recent foundation behavior suggests that a new approach to higher education philanthropy has emerged over the past decade, one that emphasizes broad-scale reform initiatives and systemic change through focused, hands-on public policy work.

Authors

• Cassie E. Hall, Claremont Graduate University

• Scott L. Thomas, Claremont Graduate University