Noah D. Drezner

About Noah D. Drezner

Noah D. Drezner (he/him) is a Professor of Higher Education, Director of the Higher and Postsecondary Education Program, Special Advisor to the Provost for Doctoral Education, Chair of the Faculty Executive Committee (senate), and Principle Investigator of The Tzedakah Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is founding editor of Philanthropy & Education and formerly a Visiting Professor of Education and Philanthropic Studies at Beijing Normal University. Noah is internationally known as a leading researcher on educational philanthropy. His research interests include philanthropy and fundraising as they pertain to colleges and universities, including higher education\'s role in the cultivation of prosocial behaviors.Currently, Noah’s work is based on identity-based philanthropy. In other words, he is researching how a person’s social identities affect their giving to higher education and how colleges and universities can engage their alumni in more inclusive ways. He is the co-PI for the National Study of LGBT Alumni, a multi-institutional mixed methods project, and recently completed a population-based survey experiment, The National Alumni Giving Experiment, that evaluates how a person’s social identities affect their propensity to donate and at what level when exposed to different types of fundraising solicitations.He has published numerous articles and six books and given several international presentations on related topics. His dissertation received the CASE H.S. Warwick Award for Outstanding Research in Alumni Relations for Educational Advancement in 2009. The AFP awarded him the 2014 Skystone Partners Prize for Research on Fundraising and Philanthropy for his book, Expanding the donor base in higher education, and their inaugural Early Career Emerging Scholar Award in the same year. Additionally, he was presented the CASE John Grenzebach Award for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy for Educational Advancement in 2015 for his work on philanthropic mirroring and social identity’s impact on giving.Noah is an active alumni leader at the University of Rochester. Noah serves as president of the Hillel at the UR Board and co-chair of the University’s Diversity Advisory Council. Outside of the University, Noah serves on the Justice Policy Institute Board and is the former treasurer of the Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration (ORAM), a nonprofit dedicated to bringing LGBTQI refugees to safety. In the past, he served on the boards of Maryland Hillel and as president of Kol Tzedek, a Reconstructionist Synagogue in Philadelphia.

Experience

1. Founding Editor

   Philanthropy & Education

   Jan 2015 — Present

   Philanthropy & Education, which published its first issue in November 2017, emerged from discussions among the growing number of scholars and students who study philanthropy and fundraising within education. While we publish in different venues, both in the field of education and within the disciplines, we noticed a significant gap exists. Publishing semiannually each May and November, Philanthropy & Education is sponsored by TC and published by Indiana University Press. The journal’s mission is to advance scholarship in and inform practice around philanthropy, broadly defined, including but not limited to fundraising, volunteerism, civic engagement, alumni relations, corporate social responsibility, and prosocial behavior development. As such, Philanthropy & Education will publish empirical and scholarly studies that are written in a way that is accessible to practitioners across the spectrum of disciplinary perspectives with a clear implication for practice.Philanthropy & Education encourages articles from all aspects of education (K-20+), both domestically and internationally, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including but not limited to: anthropology, economics, history, law, management, political science, psychology, public administration, religious studies, social work, and sociology. To further the journal\'s mission, Philanthropy & Education welcomes submissions from scholar-practitioners, particularly those who have recently completed their dissertations.Mentorship program. To encourage the dissemination of newly written dissertations and the work of young scholars and scholar-practitioners, I established a mentoring program at Philanthropy & Education. The journal’s editorial board is committed to mentoring “newly minted doctors” through the publication process.

Education

• University of Rochester

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

  1996 — 2000

• University of Pennsylvania

  Master of Science in Education

  2003 — 2004

• University of Pennsylvania

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  2005 — 2008