Philanthropists in Higher Education Institutional, Biographical, and Religious Motivations for Giving RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education Series

The main purpose of this book is to explore and understand the motivation behind major donations to higher education and what the role of religion is in these motivations. Features interviews with major donors.

DedicationAcknowledgementsPrefaceList of Tables List of AppendicesPhilanthropic LegaciesConceptualizing Philanthropic MotivationMethodological Proceedings The University as Recipient of Magnanimous PhilanthropyOf Racoon CoatsReligion in the Lives of Major DonorsPhilanthropic Themes and Poetic Theorizing Philanthropic Signs and SymbolsAppendices Bibliography

Gregory L. Cascione

Using a postcolonial lens on current educational practices, this book hopes to lift those practices out of reproducing traditional power structures and push our thinking beyond the adult/child dichotomy into new possibilities for the lives that are created with children.