TY - BOOK ID - 8429561 TI - Unequal partners : American foundations and higher education development in Africa PY - 2016 SN - 1137593466 1137593482 PB - New York, [New York] : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Education, Higher. KW - Endowment of research KW - Education, Higher KW - Research grants KW - College students KW - Higher education KW - Educational endowments KW - Philanthropy KW - Research, Endowment of KW - Education KW - Endowments KW - Intellectual cooperation KW - Research KW - Education and state KW - Federal aid to research KW - Postsecondary education KW - Universities and colleges KW - Finance KW - Higher Education. KW - Higher education. KW - Africa. KW - Eastern Hemisphere UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8429561 AB - 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. . ER -