Summer 2019
An issue of Philanthropy, The Philanthropy Roundtable’s magazine. 25 articles
President's Note
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The Crucial Importance of Independent Private Giving
As Karl Zinsmeister writes in this issue, “the priceless American innovation of voluntary private giving is now under ferocious, concerted, coordinated attack.” Wealthy givers are maligned in the…
Feature
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Scholars Across Carolina
How one excellent scholarship reverberated into others
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Giving by Degrees
Practitioners look at academic programs in philanthropy
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Benefactors Beware
Seven hazards donors to higher ed need to avoid
Interview
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Interview with Ken Langone
Raised by a plumber and a cafeteria lady, the man who financed the launch of Home Depot describes a loan he can never pay back, why he made…
Briefly Noted
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Summer 2019 – Briefly Noted
A troubling screed from the Gray Lady. Seeing a black hole. California's homelessness farce. Taps, hurricane relief, and a TFA meltdown. A truly imaginative university.
Ideas
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Teaching Civics to Young Americans As If It Mattered
Philanthropy has an opportunity today to refurbish an entire civic culture in disrepair
Books
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When Faith and Community Erode
Two new books provide fresh looks at life in the back row
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America the Beautiful Though Imperfect
A U.S. history that offers a more balanced telling of our national origins
More from this issue
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The Online Evolution
College over the Internet has surprised in many ways
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Taps for All
There are few successions of 24 notes that evoke the same mix of melancholy and uplift as “Taps.” In 2000, Congress passed Public Law 106-65 requiring that every…
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Another Progressive Attack on School Reform
In May, the board of the Houston Independent School District voted to not renew the district’s contract with Teach For America, ending a partnership set in place since…
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A Creative Approach to Higher Ed
Franklin Olin was a classic American entrepreneur who became a generous philanthropist. Hundreds of millions of dollars of his family money was poured into higher education. Walk the…
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Recovery Managers
Well before Hurricane Harvey reached Houston in August 2017, it hurtled through Aransas County, Texas. The small coastal region endured 130 mile-per-hour winds, the strongest to hit the…
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1. Colleges Are Underproducing
Ask them to stop wasting resources and become more efficient.
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3. More College, More Prosperity
Formal education is oversold. More productive forms of learning should be encouraged at least as much.
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2. Students Are In Short Supply
Thanks to birth declines, we have too many college seats. Leaders must make hard choices in response.
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4. College Should Be More Useful
Education for career success (and life happiness) is what young people want. Too many now say college does little for them on either front.
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5. Degree Completion Rates Are a Disgrace
What is your favorite campus doing to make sure students graduate instead of just passing through?
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6. Don’t Feed the Dragon
Campuses are currently wracked by political correctness, harassment accusations, "implicit bias" goose chasing, and hate hunting. Avoid fueling the beast.
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7. Resist the Throttling of Religious Colleges
Enemies of faith want hundreds of institutions of higher ed to shut up or shut down.
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The Assault on Generosity and Voluntary Action
“Around the turn of the last century, the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie paid to build 1,689 libraries across the United States. Many are still in use, celebrated as…
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Philanthropy Sets the Table for Science Breakthroughs
This spring, humans viewed something for the very first time: a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope, a collaboration of more than 200 researchers who combined images from…
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Homeless Tragedy and Farce
“A city with less than a million people spending more than $2 billion per year on ‘mental health’ and still their streets are littered with people desperately in…
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Steering Through a Storm
Well before Hurricane Harvey reached Houston in August 2017, it hurtled through Aransas County, Texas. The small coastal region endured 130-mile-per-hour winds, the strongest hurricane landfall winds to…