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Ethan W. Ris is an associate professor of higher w88 slot online leadership at the University. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of w88 slot online, where he was also a doctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. He holds a B.A. from Brown University.
Ris is a historian of education policy. His current book project focuses on the effect of activist philanthropy on American undergraduate education in the first half of the 20th century. Using archival methods, he shows how early philanthropic foundations' efforts to impose efficiency-minded reforms on colleges and universities fell short, before they embraced the ethos of student w88 slot online and institutional autonomy by the mid-century.
Previous work by Ris, published in a range of peer-reviewed journals, has focused on the rapprochement of higher w88 slot online and the business sector, as well as the social construction of non-cognitive skills at both the K12 and undergraduate levels. Additionally, his writing and expertise has been featured in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The San Jose Mercury News, and public radio.
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- Ph.D., Higher w88 slot online and History of w88 slot online, Stanford University
- M.A.Ed., Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies, Stanford w88 slot online
- B.A., History, Brown w88 slot online