October 4, 2007
New Center Aims to Give Higher-Education Donors More Power
A new nonprofit group that will broker gifts between philanthropists and colleges plans to use big donations as a carrot to get "complacent" colleges and universities to become more serious about achievement.
The Center for Excellence in Higher Education, which is based in Indianapolis, is receiving a combined $5-million over five years from the Marcus, John Templeton, and John William Pope Foundations.
Frederic J. Fransen, executive director of the center, says he believes
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