Unequal Partners: American Foundations and Higher Education Development in Africa

✍ Scribed by Fabrice Jaumont (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 185
Series: Philanthropy and Education
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers a nuanced analysis of a US-led foundation initiative of uncommon ambition, featuring seven foundations with a shared commitment to strengthen capacity in higher education in Sub-Saharan African universities. The book examines the conditions under which philanthropy can be effective, the impasses that foundations often face, and the novel context in which philanthropy operates today. This study therefore assesses the shifting grounds on which higher education globally is positioned and the role of global philanthropy within these changing contexts. This is especially important in a moment where higher education is once again recognized as a driver of development and income growth, where knowledge economies requiring additional levels of education are displacing economies predicated on manufacturing, and in a context where higher education itself appears increasingly precarious and under dramatic pressures to adapt to new conditions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction: American Philanthropy and the Rebirth of Higher Education in Africa....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Century-Old Philanthropic Interests in Africa’s Higher Education....Pages 9-20
Educational Philanthropists and Higher Education Developers....Pages 21-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Foundations Come with Institutional Cultures....Pages 41-50
When Foundations Work Together....Pages 51-66
The Authority of Foundation Presidents....Pages 67-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
The Legitimacy of American Foundations....Pages 81-97
The Discourse on Priorities Among Donors....Pages 99-109
Legitimacy in an Unequal Partnership....Pages 111-123
Conclusion: Equal Participation and the Challenges of Higher Education Philanthropy....Pages 125-134
Back Matter....Pages 135-170

✦ Subjects

Higher Education

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