The topic of this symposium is how philanthropy fits into higher education reform. Few members of the NAS are primarily philanthropists. So, whereas you might very well be interested in some of the toolkit-like advice that I generally offer to philanthropists, it would probably be off target for this journal. Therefore, I have decided not to discuss the nuts and bolts of higher education philanthropy, but rather to share with you a few thoughts on the problem of higher education reform from a philanthropist’s point of view, and end with a few bits of advice about how you might be more effective in your interactions with philanthropists.
First, so as to assure that we are on the same page, here is a little data about the role of philanthropy in higher education. By way of disclaimer, the statistics I am
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