college

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #358: Sixty Billion Foreign Dollars Go to College
Sixty billion dollars—that is the estimate of foreign funding of American universities that Americans for Public Trust released earlier this week. Of that $60 billion, $20 billion went to just…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on March 28, 2025

Philanthropy
“Roger Federer Philanthropy”
Retired tennis great Roger Federer’s well-received commencement address at Dartmouth College last June is worth the time for you to read or view for several reasons, but among them are…
by Michael E. Hartmann on November 19, 2024

Commentary
Models, Not Manuals
“Facing outward on the low bar, the gymnast performs a pike sole circle backward through handstand with flight and a half (180 degree) turn to hang on the high bar.”That…
by Julia Nelson on September 16, 2024

Philanthropy
Thought Experiment: Post-Fearless Fund, A World of Philanthropy Without Grant Contracts
During the months leading up to June 2023’s Supreme Court decisions finding race-conscious college admissions to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, some in establishment philanthropy forward-lookingly…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 21, 2024

Philanthropy
Why Give Money To A College That Only Wants To Mock Your Values?
How many times have you moved since you graduated college? Lots, probably, but somehow, they always find you. If the FBI was half as successful at keeping tabs on wanted…
by Aaron Withe on February 12, 2024

Organization Trends
An Organized Disruption
Peaceful discourse, civil protest, and open debate have all been essential to the American experience. Even more so on our university and college campuses, once heralded as pioneers of free…
by Kali Fontanilla on October 12, 2023

Organization Trends
Biden and Activist Allies Push Taxpayer-Funded Voter Registration on College Campuses
In the run up to the 2022 midterm elections, professional activists were desperate to drive up voter registration rates everywhere they could, particularly on college campuses. And they wanted taxpayers…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 8, 2022

Organization Trends
The Confucius Institutes and CCP Propaganda on College Campuses
In January, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security dropped a proposed rule by the Trump administration that would have required universities to disclose their agreements with Confucius Institutes. Confucius Institutes are…
by Sarah Lee on March 1, 2021

Monthly Notes, Organization Trends
Briefly Noted, July 2016: Get out the vote efforts and political correctness on campus
"Briefly Noted" is part of Organization Trends. For the full PDF, click here. The Center for Popular Democracy and its 501(c)(4) so-called “dark money” arm, the Center for Popular…
by Matthew Vadum on July 18, 2016