Spencer Foundation

Spencer Foundation

"The Spencer Foundation was established in 1962 by Lyle M. Spencer. The Foundation received its major endowment upon Spencer's death in 1968 and began formal grant making in 1971. Since that time, the Foundation has made grants totaling approximately $250 million. The Foundation is intended, by Spencer's direction, to investigate ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world."

Directors

Accessed October 2009:

• Derek C. Bok - Chair, Harvard University
• Michael S. McPherson - President, The Spencer Foundation
• Deborah Loewenberg Ball - Vice Chair, University of Michigan
• Howard E. Gardner - Harvard University
• Cynthia Greenleaf - Heidrick and Struggles
• Christopher Jencks - Harvard University
• Carol R. Johnson - Boston Public Schools
• Lyle Logan - The Northern Trust Company
• Richard J. Shavelson - Stanford University
• T. Dennis Sullivan - Church Pension Group

Contact

Web: http://www.spencer.org

Resources and articles

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• Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
• Deborah L. Tolman
• George D. Kuh
• American Institutions of Democracy
• Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
• Nadine Pinede
• Lawrence D. Bobo
• Patricia Albjerg Graham - former president