Author: Noah Swank
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How a Few Foundations Shape American Higher Education
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Does Legacy Higher Ed Have a Future?
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Introducing SOURCE
Categories: University Governancea New Tool to Track Funding from Private Foundations to American Higher Ed By Tao TanJune 24, 2026 The debate about private money in higher education is loud, emotion-laden, and not typically backed by sufficient evidence. Up to this point, access to the evidence has been challenging, since it sits in millions of separate tax…
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Economics and the Civic Imagination
Categories: Civic ThoughtBy Joshua BanerjeeJune 24, 2026 The civic thought movement taking root across public universities presents a significant opportunity to renew the meaning of citizenship and prepare students for the responsibilities and challenges of republican self-government. Yet while disciplines such as political theory, philosophy, and history have already assumed a visible place within civic education, the…
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SOURCE
Categories: UncategorizedSOURCE (Searchable Open University Records of Charitable Expenditures) provides visibility into over 1 million grants from over 57,000 U.S. private foundations to nearly 5,300 colleges and universities. SOURCE is developed by Tao Tan. Introduction to SOURCE SOURCE (Searchable Open University Records of Charitable Expenditures) is an interactive tool to access a dataset of over 1…
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Curricular Reform at Elite Universities
Categories: Liberal EducationBy Solveig Lucia Gold and Joshua T. KatzJune 2, 2026 This essay was originally published as a chapter titled “Can We Reform Our Elite Universities?” in Kevin D. Roberts, ed., Higher Education in America: It’s Worse than You Think (New York: Encounter Books, 2026), pp. 181–192, with notes on 273–276. Reprinted with permission. The first…
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Finally, Conservatives are Being Invited to Speak at Graduation
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Henry Adams, Democracy, and the Morality of Politics
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Yale Committee Offers an Encouragingly Realistic Report About the State of Higher Education
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Symposium: What is Patriotic Education?
Categories: Civic ThoughtThe EditorsMay 6, 2026 One of President Trump’s first executive orders instructed agencies to “prioritize Federal resources, consistent with applicable law, to promote patriotic education.” This executive order, and the announcements that followed it, sparked a debate about the term “patriotic education” in higher education. Can professors educate patriotically? Or are the two terms mutually…