Program Aims

Higher education has been a focus of the Foundation’s grantmaking since the Foundation’s very first grant in 1936 to Yenching University in Beijing. Over half of all grant monies awarded since the Foundation’s establishment have been to higher education institutions.

Recent Grants

COVID Emergency Grant: AICF TCU Technology Support – Part 2

American Indian College Fund |Denver, Colorado, United States, Rocky Mountain Region
  • 2020
  • Higher Education
  • $250,000
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Program Administrators

Vice President: Sean T. Buffington

Buffington has long experience in higher education, having served most recently as president of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and before that as associate provost at Harvard University.