| University | Semester | Year | Course | Department | Instructor(s) | Students Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor University | Fall | 2014 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Civic Education and Community Service | Andrew Hogue | 28 students |
| Baylor University | Fall | 2015 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Philanthropy & Public Service | Andrew Hogue | 21 students |
| Baylor University | Spring | 2015 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Civic Education and Community Service | Andrew Hogue | 20 students |
| Baylor University | Fall | 2016 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Philanthropy & Public Service | Andrew Hogue | 19 students |
| Baylor University | Spring | 2016 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Philanthropy & Public Service | Andrew Hogue | 19 students |
| Baylor University | Spring | 2017 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Philanthropy & Public Service | Andrew Hogue | 15 students |
| Baylor University | Fall | 2018 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Philanthropy & Public Service | Andrew Hogue | 20 students |
| Baylor University | Spring | 2018 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Philanthropy & Public Service | Charles McDaniel | 16 students |
| Baylor University | Fall | 2019 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Philanthropy & Public Service | Andrew Hogue, Jeremy Vickers, Holly Burchett | 17 students |
| Baylor University | Spring | 2019 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Philanthropy & Public Service | Andrew Hogue | 16 students |
| Baylor University | Fall | 2020 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Philanthropy & Public Service | Jeremy Vickers, Holly Burchett | 16 students |
| Baylor University | Fall | 2021 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Philanthropy & Public Service | Hector Sabido, Cuevas Peacock | 9 students |
| Baylor University | Fall | 2023 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Civic Education and Community Service | Andrew Hogue, Emily Hunt-Hinojosa, Anne Jeffrey | 10 students |
| Baylor University | Spring | 2023 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Civic Education and Community Service | Andrew Hogue, Emily Hunt-Hinojosa, Anne Jeffrey | 26 students |
| Baylor University | Fall | 2024 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Civic Education and Community Service | Andrew Hogue, Mark Richards | 16 students |
| Baylor University | Spring | 2025 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Civic Education and Community Service | Andrew Hogue, Mark Richards | 23 students |
| Baylor University | Spring | 2026 | Philanthropy & the Public Good | Civic Education and Community Service | Andrew Hogue, Mark Richards | 21 students |
Dr. Andy Hogue serves as Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and directs the Office of Engaged Learning, which facilitates for students and faculty programs in undergraduate research, civic engagement, global involvement, internships, and major fellowships and awards. Andy teaches courses on a range of public affairs, including philanthropy and civil society, social innovation, and politics, and has served three times as director of the Baylor in Maastricht program.
Andy’s scholarship focuses on how we achieve the public good. He is author of Navigating the Future: Traditioned Innovation for Wilder Seas (with L. Gregory Jones) and Stumping God: Reagan, Carter, and the Invention of a Political Faith, and he will soon finish two others titled Modest Proposals for a Better Public Life and Teaching Philanthropy (with Ronald Pitcock). From 2018-2020, Andy served as Senior Project Associate on the Traditioned Innovation Project at Duke University.
Andy earned a BA from Clemson University, an MA and PhD from Baylor, and completed the executive program in design thinking at Stanford.
Mark Richards is the Associate Director for Operations, Innovation, and Programs in the Office of Engaged Learning. Along with co-teaching Philanthropy & the Public Good, Mark assists in directing the general operations, innovation, and strategy of Baylor’s Engaged Learning programs spanning undergraduate research, civic and global learning, internships, major fellowships and awards, and leadership and character formation.
Mark graduated from Baylor with a bachelor’s in Finance as a Business Fellow, and previously directed the operations of a small financial planning firm and prior to that worked in management consulting in Chicago. He is a two-time alumnus of Dr. Hogue’s Philanthropy & the Public Good and a past Ambassadors Conference participant.
Interesting Course Components
- Class taught by Dr. Andrew Hogue and co-professor, Mark Richards (2017 Baylor Philanthropy Lab Class Alum)
- Interdisciplinary course in the Philanthropy & Public Service department
- Capstone for Business & University Honors
- Students will use AI tools to complete a semester project. They reflect on what it gets right/wrong and what it will never “get” at all.
- Students serve as a Board of Directors in the class, class ends with a Capstone Assignment about how to approach philanthropy moving forward
- Students give hand-written “thank-you” notes to donors at giving ceremony
- Three-phase grant-making process
- Phase I: Becoming familiar with challenges and opportunities facing the Waco community
- Students independently review community data and vote on the challenge(s) they want Board to consider
- Board votes on challenge(s) it plans to address for semester, committee chairs draft Board Statement of Priorities & Values for approval
- Students conduct independent reviews of organizational profiles on WacoRoundTable.org, filling out an Organization Primer (1–2-page summary of org)
- Vote to move organizations to Phase II
- Orgs moving to Phase II receive at least $500
- Phase II: Chosen organizations will be invited for short in-person presentations
- Reflect on organizations (students write 1-2 paragraphs on each org for only professor to see) and then the Board enter Executive Session and vote on the organizations that will move onto Phase III.
- Orgs moving to Phase III receive at least $1,000
- Phase III: Students research remaining organizations & form teams of Program Officers
- Each team researches one organization – conducting a site visit and preparing a Briefing Book
- Team briefly presents on org, primarily answering questions posed by other Board members
- Phase III Committee Charis guide Executive Session until all decisions are made
- Develop instrument to evaluate the grants 2 years later
- Phase I: Becoming familiar with challenges and opportunities facing the Waco community
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