Daily News Roundup: Laurene Powell Jobs Ramps Up Quest for Social Change
June 12, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
Top News
How Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective Is Inventing a ‘New Brand of Philanthropic Power’ (Washington Post) Plus, see Chronicle coverage of how philanthropists are using limited-liability companies is reimagine giving.
New Goldman Sachs Fund Will Track Paul Tudor Jones’s Feel-Good Companies (New York Times)
News About Higher Education
Education Department Investigating USC’s Handling of Sexual-Harassment Allegations (NPR) Read a Chronicle article about USC’s fundraising prowess.
$5 Million Charles Koch Gift Sparks Uproar at California’s Chapman U. (Mercury News)
How College Alumni Donors Can Get What They Pay For (Wall Street Journal)
Opinion: Penn Professor’s Firing Shows Why University Boardrooms Need Reform (Wall Street Journal)
Opinion: Donating to Journalism School Is Not the Best Way to Help Journalism (Slate) See a Chronicle article about Craigslist founder Craig Newmark’s $20 million gift for journalism education.
Technion-Israel Institute in $1.8 Billion Fundraising Drive for ‘World-Changing Innovation’ (Jewish News)
More News
Ex-Clinton Foundation Chief Donna Shalala Prioritizes Health Care in Run for Congress (Washington Post)
Why Billionaire Indian Philanthropist B.R. Shetty Is Betting on Education (Forbes)
N.J. School District Stunned by Special-Ed Teacher’s $1 Million Bequest (CBS New York)
