Noah Swank, Author at The Future of American University

a 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…

Economics and the Civic Imagination

Noah Swank

June 24, 2026

Categories: Civic Thought

By 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…

SOURCE

Noah Swank

June 9, 2026

Categories: Uncategorized

SOURCE (Searchable Open University Records of Charitable Expenditures) provides visibility into over 1.6 million grants from over 77,000 U.S. private foundations and public charities to over 6,100 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…

Curricular Reform at Elite Universities

Noah Swank

June 2, 2026

Categories: Liberal Education

By 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…