[net-gold] Foundations' Newfound Advocacy
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- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:30:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:23:38 -0700
From: Richard Hake <rrhake@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Re: Foundations' Newfound Advocacy
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ABSTRACT: Norman Stahl of the LRNASST list has called attention to
Doug Lederman's (2012) "Inside Higher Ed" report "Foundations'
Newfound Advocacy." Lederman, in turn, points to a paper " 'Advocacy
Philanthropy' and the Public Policy Agenda: The Role of Modern
Foundations in American Higher Education" [Hall & Thomas (2012)].
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Lederman wrote: "Hall and Thomas channel fears that the consensus
that Gates and Lumina have built through their common agenda-setting
(in league with federal and state officials) and their comparatively
massive, widely distributed dollars (to a cottage industry of
'intermediaries') has given them 'outsized influence' and squelched
alternative points of view."
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Norman Stahl (2012) in his LRNASST post of 13 Apr 2012 has called
attention to Doug Lederman's (2012) "Inside Higher Ed" report
"Foundations' Newfound Advocacy."
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Lederman wrote [bracketed by lines "LLLLL. . . . ."; my inserts at ".
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To many of the policy experts and researchers who work with them, the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . . . . .[[<http://bit.ly/IPimwP >]].
. . . and the Lumina Foundation . . . . .[[<http://bit.ly/HJ2fhP>]].
. . . have driven more significant (and beneficial) change in five
years than American higher education has seen in decades.
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To their critics, the two behemoths and a band of collaborating
groups and think tanks (call them the "completion mafia") have
hijacked the national agenda for higher education and drowned out
alternative perspectives.
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One doesn't have to fall squarely into one of those camps to
acknowledge the extent to which the two foundations have remade the
philanthropic landscape in higher education. A paper. . . . .[[
prepared for the 93rd annual meeting of the " 'Advocacy Philanthropy'
and the Public Policy Agenda: The Role of Modern Foundations in
American Higher Education" (Hall & Thomas (2012) which]]. . . . .
aims to document -- through an admittedly impressionistic mix of
data, interviews and other means -- just how thoroughly the two
philanthropic giants (and others) have altered both the traditional
foundation role in academe and (by extension) the public policy
discussion about higher education.
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Hall and Thomas channel fears that the consensus that Gates and
Lumina have built through their common agenda-setting (in league with
federal and state officials) and their comparatively massive, widely
distributed dollars (to a cottage industry of "intermediaries") has
given them "outsized influence" and squelched alternative points of
view.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
<rrhake@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Links to Articles: <http://bit.ly/a6M5y0>
Links to SDI Labs: <http://bit.ly/9nGd3M>
Blog: <http://bit.ly/9yGsXh>
Academia: <http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake>
Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/rrhake>
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"The academic area is one of the most difficult areas to change in
our society. We continue to use the same methods of instruction,
particularly lectures, that have been used for hundreds of years.
Little scientific research is done to test new approaches, and little
systematic attention is given to the development of new methods.
Universities that study many aspects of the world ignore the
educational function in which they are engaging and from which a
large part of their revenues are earned."
Richard M. Cyert, former president of
Carnegie Mellon University as quoted in Tuma & Reif (1980)
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REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on
14 April 2012.]
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Hall, C. & S.L. Thomas. 2012. " 'Advocacy Philanthropy' and the
Public Policy Agenda: The Role of Modern Foundations in American
Higher Education" paper prepared for the 93rd annual meeting of the
American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada, April
2012; online at <http://bit.ly/HHNcIw>. [A footnote states "Do not
cite or quote without permission," but since the paper has been both
cited and quoted by "Inside Higher Ed" that admonition is, in my
view, obviated by the fact that the cat is already out of the bag.]
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Lederman, D. 2012. "Foundations' Newfound Advocacy" Inside Higher Ed,
13 April; online at <http://bit.ly/HG3wc2>. As of 14 April 2012
08:06-0700 there had been 11 comments. You may wish to add your own.
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Stahl, N. 2012. "From Inside Higher Education." LRNASST post of 13
Apr 2012 10:53:11 -0400; online on the OPEN! LRNASST archives at
<http://bit.ly/Hyw2IQ>.
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Tuma, D.T. & F. Reif, eds. 1980. "Problem Solving and Education:
Issues in Teaching and Research," Lawrence Erlbaum. Amazon.com
information at <http://amzn.to/jcAK2d>.
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