Where Most Needed

Private Philanthropy Puts Yale in the Drivers Seat in New Haven

Gleaming new campus buildings arise while the city's infrastructure crumbles around them. 

Roger Clemens Foundation Could Use Some Juice

The pitcher's charity foundation stages a golf event and sells memorabilia, and a significant amount of grants go to places that aren't mentioned in the organization's web site.

School Tase Challenge to Student Government & Campus Police

The University of Florida taser incident should lead to a broader review of protocols for speakers forum, both for the student group that sponsors them and for the campus police, which prides itself on its adherence to professional standards.  But all universities—public and private—should be on notice.

Sidebar: Cambridge College and the Risks of Governance

A successful school for working adults provides an example of why legal compliance doesn't eliminate risks in charity governance.

Carnegie Mellon Buys Into Product Placement in Films

University agreed to filming on campus in return for prominent use of the college name throughout the movie.  Could be a symptom of the transformation of universities into corporate Educational Maintenance Organizations. 

Smaller Educational Institutions Falling Short in Fundraising

Big research institutions capture most of the growth in fundraising as its graduates hit the jackpot. 

Hockey Fib Ices Headmaster at Gilman School

The Baltimore private school's board shows zero tolerance for resume padding, even for a manager with a five year track record of fundraising success. 

Antioch College President Says Toxic Politics Drove Collapse in Enrollment

The most recent recovery plan failed when the students stopped arriving, but it was only the final act in a strategic plan set in motion decades ago, which has also had the effect of reducing and now eliminating tenured faculty positions from the staff. 

Faculty at Ave Maria Law School Fights Founder's Flighty Vision

Conservative law professors are taking an activist approach to block the move of their school from Michigan to Thomas Monaghan's new town development, Ave Maria, Florida.

Virginia Tech Foundation Moves Quickly to Establish Memorial Fund

As the media stories generated a flood of inquiries about donations, the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund was already taking on-line donations in response to the shootings at the Blacksburg campus.