Back in 1998, Martin Morse Wooster wrote a fine book entitled The Great Philanthropists and the Problem of Donor Intent. Here he focuses on the problem of donor intent in higher education with an excellent essay on the Robertson family’s dispute with Princeton over the university’s determination to spend the money however it pleases rather than as the donor instructed.
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George Leef is the director of external relations at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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