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CONSERVATIVE PHILANTHROPYAcademic Sector Organizations and ProgramsFrom a report by NCRP"Funds generated by business...must rush by the multimillions to the aid of liberty...to funnel desperately needed funds to scholars, social scientists, writers and journalists who understand the relationship between political and economic liberty. [Business must] cease the mindless subsidizing of colleges and universities who departments of economy, government, politics and history are hostile to capitalism." --William E. Simon, Time for Truth (1979) While there has long been an affinity between American philanthropy and higher education, the grant money that conservative foundations have awarded to the academy has been targeted, multi-dimensional and strategic. Over the 1992-1994 period, the 12 foundations collectively awarded $88.9 million to support two broad and mutually supportive purposes. The first and primary purpose has been to build and strengthen an intellectual edifice to support conservative social and public policy views. Tens of millions of dollars were granted to individual scholars, academic study programs, research institutes, and public policy centers whose work, both individually and collectively, supports and extends the theoretical and philosophical basis for free market economics and limited government. The second purpose has been to develop an organizational network of faculty, students, alumni and trustees to oppose and reverse progressive curricula and policy trends on the nation's campuses. This network has launched a highly sophisticated attack on "liberal" higher education, first by developing and popularizing the idea that a dominant and intolerant left has eroded academic standards and the space for free intellectual inquiry and then by using this critique to press for change in American higher education, particularly with respect to university admissions practices, curricular trends, faculty hiring and funding.' Higher education funding by conservative foundations is therefore not just a program funding area but an important lever for the achievement of broader policy goals. Over the 1992-1994 period, the foundations directed substantial grant resources to approximately 145 academic institutions, programs or higher education organizations, awarding $23 million to develop or expand specific academic programs or curricula; $16.8 million to subsidize the training of undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students, principally through fellowships in law, economics, political science, and public policy analysis; $7.8 million to support the work of academic change organizations; $7.6 million to establish university chairs and support distinguished professorships; $6.1 million to further domestic policy research; $5.7 million to support the general operations of specific research centers; $4.6 million to underwrite foreign policy research; $3.3 million to finance conferences and meetings; $3.1 million to fund education seminars for judges in the application of economic principles to legal decision making; and $2.1 million to assist in specific book projects. The rest of the money supported a variety of purposes, including lecture circuits, manuscript preparation, publications support, and more. Of the $88.9 million awarded for academic or higher education-related purposes, $51.3 million was channeled to just 16 grantee institutions, including the University of Chicago,$10.35 million; Harvard University,$9.67 million; George Mason University, $8.55 million; and Yale University, $5.95 million.
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OTHER LINKSAcademic Sector Program Areas
Law and Economics Funding
Targeting the Academy
Public Policy Training
Academic Change Organizations
Grants to the top Academic Sector Grantee Institutions
University of Chicago
Harvard University
George Mason University
Yale University
Claremont McKenna College
University of Virginia
Marquette University
Boston University
Cornell University
Stanford University
Georgetown University
New York University
University of California, Berkeley
Columbia University
Hillsdale College
David S. Bernstein Buying the campus mindIdeologues are paying big bucks to influence the college experience — but you won’t hear that from your school ... The Scaife, Olin, and Earhart foundations funded conservative publications at campuses across the country, and paid for conservative speakers. They also fund think tanks that work to influence academia, including the National Association of Scholars and the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. Representatives of right-wing foundations have argued that they are merely trying to level a playing field that liberals have been tilting for years. The Ford Foundation, for example, although originally a more conservative organization, has for years been a reliable funder of progressive college programs — programs that arguably helped women’s studies, postcolonial area studies, and other fields become mainstays of the modern American campus.
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