higher education

Philanthropy
A Conversation with Notre Dame Law School’s Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Part 2 of 2)
Professor Mayer, a scholar of nonprofit and election law, talks to Michael E. Hartmann about past and potential future cross-ideological overlap in the critique of establishment philanthropy, non-exempt vehicles for wealthy…
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 21, 2022

Philanthropy
A Conversation with Notre Dame Law School’s Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Part 1 of 2)
Notre Dame Law School Professor Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a scholar of nonprofit and election law, talks to Michael E. Hartmann about what should and shouldn’t be considered a subsidy for charities,…
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 21, 2022

Organization Trends
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Three Woke Advantages
The most important fact about woke cancellation is that it rarely if ever arises from individual action. Organized institutions carry out the famous firings and relegations. “Internal mobs,” sometimes aided…
by Michael Watson on December 21, 2021

Organization Trends
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Corporate America
Organized institutions carry out the famous firings and relegations. “Internal mobs,” sometimes aided and abetted by the labor unions, enforce the ideological line. Institutions that have not purged dissenters have…
by Michael Watson on December 21, 2021

Organization Trends
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: The Left’s Ultimate Weapon
Even the institutional supports that the Left enjoy would not be enough to turn courage into casualties without powerful weapons. When action against a primary target is ineffective, woke groups…
by Michael Watson on December 21, 2021

Organization Trends
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Forced by the Government
Where private action has not yet forced compliance with woke ideology, our adversaries bring the power of the state to bear. Unencumbered by notions of constitutional propriety, federalism, or local-state…
by Michael Watson on December 21, 2021

Philanthropy
Effort to Reduce Tax on Income of Elite Higher-Education Endowments Dropped
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives’ Rules Committee released a version of H.R. 5376, styled as the Build Back Better Act, quietly eliminating an earlier-included provision that would have…
by Michael E. Hartmann on November 17, 2021

Philanthropy
Enchanted with the Elitist of Exempt Endowments
Many have seen implications for the underlying legal structure and practice of American philanthropy in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017’s excise tax on the investment income…
by Michael E. Hartmann on October 5, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Selling Terrorism Through Nonprofits
As the U.S. tries to grapple with how—and how much—funding is used to promote anti-American propaganda within the U.S., the Confucius Institutes have attracted an enormous amount of attention. The…
by Sarah Lee on April 6, 2021

Philanthropy
Looking at the Largest Higher-Education and Grantmaker Endowments in America
Of the 50 largest higher-education and grantmaker endowments in America, as measured by total assets and reported in their publicly available data for 2018, 28 were those of institutions of…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 8, 2021