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CAMPAIGN INFORMATION
ExxonMobil's Role in Higher Education
ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company, has strong influence in academia. Members of the company's board of directors, chairpersons, and CEOs are also professors, directors, trustees, and even presidents of educational institutions across the nation. For more than fifty years, ExxonMobil has given large donations used to provide essential research for science departments.
Facts
- In 2001, ExxonMobil contributed US$24,635,243 total to higher education worldwide. During the same year, US$20,619,743 of those funds were contributed towards higher education in the United States.
- ExxonMobil has many programs that the company uses to help harness their strong influence in higher education. The Program In Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) has developed Project NExT, an acronym for "New Experiences in Teaching". Project NExT influences institutions by providing new college-level mathematics faculty with a professional development program to encourage innovative teaching strategies.
- Through the Departmental Grants Program, ExxonMobil gives grants to hundreds of universities who provide the company with employees.
Find out ExxonMobil's influence in your school (note that this is only a sample of schools, please refer to ExxonMobil's report on higher education contributions if your school is not listed):
| Institution | ExxonMobil Influence |
| Banard College in NY |
$25,000 for Annual Awards Dinner. Helene L. Kaplan, board of director of ExxonMobil, is a trustee of Banard College.
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| Columbia University |
$8,000 in departmental grants, $7, 000 to Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Helene L. Kaplan, board member of ExxonMobil, is a professor of psychology at Columbia.
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| Cornell University |
$22,000 in departmental grants. Eugene A. Renna, senior vice president of ExxonMobil is a member of the advisory council of Cornell University Graduate School of Management.
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| Dartmouth College |
$6,000 to Dartmouth College's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration's MBA Programs.
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| Duke University in NC |
$1,875,500 (general contribution), $12, 000 (general contribution), $5, 000 for Charles K. Bradsher Memorial.
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| Georgia State University |
$291,000 given to the Quality in Undergraduate Education Project.
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| Harvard University |
$8,000 in departmental grants, $7,000 to Harvard Graduate School of Business. James R. Houghton, board member of ExxonMobil, is a member of the Harvard Corporation (the university's executive board) and got his AB and MBA from Harvard.
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| Johns Hopkins University |
$100,000 granted to the School for Advanced International Studies Nanjing Project. James J. Freeman, PhD, of ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc. serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing.
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| Louisiana State University |
$92,000 in departmental grants. $10,000 to Louisiana State University Foundation's engineering program. At least one professorship had been granted this year, one in the Marine Geology Department, to Nan D. Walker.
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| Louisiana Tech University |
$18,000 in departmental grants.
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| MA Institute of Technology (MA Institute continued.) |
$31,000 in departmental grants. $10,000 for the Chemical Engineering Practice School, $25,000 to the Civil engineering Industrial Liason Program, $40,000 toward the Geosystmes Degree. Robert E. Wilhelm, senior vice president of ExxonMobil, is on Corporation Development Committee.
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| Ohio State University |
$14,000 in departmental grants, $5,000 to Ohio State University's Development Foundation in engineering programs.
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| PA State University |
$72,000 in departmental grants, $5, 000 in engineering programs. $20,000 Fellowship in Quantitative Geoscience. Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. graduated from the school with his LL.B in 1960.
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| Princeton University |
$10,500 in departmental grants.
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| Purdue University (Purdue University continued.) |
$44,500 in departmental grants, $5, 000 to Engineering Programs, $5,000 to Purdue Foundation Inc's Engineering Programs, $6,000 to Purdue University Krannert Graduate School.
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| Rutgers University |
$16,000 in departmental grants.
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| Sarah Lawrence College/Southern Methodist University |
At Southern Methodist University, $7,500 Temerlin Institute for Advertising Education and Research, $9,000 in departmental grants, and $5,000 in other minority support. Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., was a past trustee. Large contributions have been donated to the university. Lee R. Raymond, chairman & chief executive of ExxonMobil Corporation is a trustee and a member of College Board's National Task Force on minority Achievement as of February 2002.
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| Stanford University |
$5,000 to Engineering Program, $10,000 to Reliability of Marine Structures Program, and $90,000 to Energy Policy Studies, $16,000 in departmental grants, $7,000 to MBA Programs. Michael Jay Boskin, board member of ExxonMobil is director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and is also a professor of economics at Stanford University.
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| Stevens Institute of Technology |
$149,689 granted to the engineering program.
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| Texas A & M University |
$138,500 in departmental grants. At the University's 57th Instrumentation Symposium for the Process Industries, Michael D. Bordeaux, a representative for Exxon Mobil Chemical, served as the Chair of Exhibits. Also present for ExxonMobil were Jerry Elshout and James Hall, both serving on the Advisory Committee.
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| Texas Tech University |
$37,000 in departmental grants.
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| Tuskegee University |
$5,000 in departmental grants.
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| University of California in Berkeley |
$19,500 in departmental grants, $10,000 in Marine Technology, $5,000 for Seaborg Lectures.
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| University of Chicago |
$8,000 in departmental grants. Reatha Clark King, board member of ExxonMobil, is also life trustee for the university.
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| University of Florida |
$44,000 in departmental grants, $35,000 for the Engineering Program.
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| University of Houston |
$116,00 in department grants, $49,000 to the Department of Engineering, $5,000 for other minority support.
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| University of Michigan |
$21,500 in departmental grants, $22,500 ASEE Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty, $10,000 for Marine Hydrodynamics, and $5,000 in the Graduate School of Bus Administration.
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| University of Texas in Austin |
$122,500 in departmental grants, $5,000 to Minority Support Programs, $31, 000 to Engineering Programs. William T. Esrey, board member of ExxonMobil, is chairperson of the university.
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| Wharton School National Academy of Engineering |
$7,000 to MBA Programs.ExxonMobil has contributed large sums of money to the academy. Lee R Raymond, chairman, chief executive of ExxonMobil is a member of the academy.
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The ExxonMobil Corporation has various programs it uses to harness its influence in academia. Here are a few:
- ExxonMobil Alliance for Education: Through this program, ExxonMobil has helps build connections with local petroleum companies across the nation, such as Candler Oil Company. Partnering with these companies and larger oil companies such as Shell and Chevron-Texaco, ExxonMobil donates large contributions to elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools.
- Upromise Program: According to the ExxonMobil 2001 Summary Annual Report, Upromise Program helps to build savings for future college students by having students purchase the company's fuel, and contributing a portion of each purchase to a college savings account.
- ExxonMobil Professorships: In this program, ExxonMobil grants professorships to various departments of colleges and universities, typically environmental departments. Through this program, ExxonMobil strongly influences who professors will be.
Works Cited
Amnesty International USA, Just Earth! Network
(Various profiles on ExxonMobil's executives.)
ExxonMobil 2001 Summary Annual Report
Staying the Course…Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
ExxonMobil Corporation Website Link
ExxonMobil Corporation 2001 Worldwide Contributions and Community Investments: Higher Education
http://www2.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/About/CommunityPartnerships/Corp_CommunityPartnership.asp
ExxonMobil Corporation Official Website
http://www.exxonmobil.com
Louisiana State University
Five Professorships Awarded at LSU
http://www.lsu.edu/university_relations/lsutoday/020621/pageone.html
Lynchburg City Schools
Candler Oil Company and ExxonMobil Educational Alliance support Paul Munro Elementary School
www.lynchburg.org/Departments/Public%20I...aul%20Munro.htm
Stop ExxonMobil Alliance
Statement To Exxonmobil Concerning The Implications Of Its Policies On Human Rights And The Environment
http://www.stopexxonmobil.org
The Stop ExxonMobil Alliance is a broad association of rights groups
working to influence ExxonMobil's behavior in the human
rights, environment, governance and community relations areas.
Alliance members support each others' demands but do not have
expertise or take public position on all the issue areas.
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