Students take classes in philanthropy.FIRST HIGHER ED SAW INVESTMENT courses that allow students to work with real money. Now there are philanthropy courses and seminars that do the same thing, while also helping charities. Colgate University Colgate University Private university in Hamilton, N.Y. It was founded in 1819 as a Baptist-affiliated institution but became independent in 1928. It offers primarily a liberal arts curriculum for undergraduates, with some master's degree programs in arts and teaching. (N.Y.) has just instituted a new noncredit non·cred·it adj. Of, relating to, or constituting an educational course that does not offer credit toward an academic degree. program that teaches students about charitable giving, says Ellen Percy Kraly, director of the Upstate Institute and a professor. The Brennan Foundation has given the institute at Colgate $50,000 to be used over five years. A group of sophomores there is studying proposals from charities local to upstate New York Upstate New York is the region of New York State north of the core of the New York metropolitan area. It has a population of 7,121,911 out of New York State's total 18,976,457. Were it an independent state, it would be ranked 13th by population. to best determine how to spend this year's allocation of $10,000. Groups of students are doing the same thing for credit at Davidson College (N.C.), the University of Mary Washington The University of Mary Washington (formerly Mary Washington College) is a coeducational, selective, state-funded, four-year liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges in Fredericksburg, Virginia. (Va.), the University of Virginia, and Cornell. Each of these institutions receives grant money from The Sunshine Lady Foundation (www.sunshineladyfdn.org), a nonprofit run by Warren Buffett's sister Doris and managed, in part, by Alex Buffett Rozek, the investor's nephew. Professor Ken Menkhaus at Davidson led the charge, getting the foundation involved several years ago, says Rozek. "He has done a lot of work on the 'new philanthropy,'" says Rozek, who observes that many "older philanthropy strategies relied only on boosterism boost·er·ism n. The highly supportive attitudes and activities of boosters: "the civic pride and heady boosterism that often accompany rising property values" New York. ." |
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