Question: It was an early backer of what 
Answer: The foundation was the biggest early backer of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Question: What is 1 foundation goal 
Answer: One of the foundation's goals is to lower poverty by increasing the number of college graduates in the United States

Question: One way to increase college graduation by the foundation is 
Answer: One of the ways the foundation has sought to increase the number of college graduates is to get them through college faster

Question: how did they work on college financing 
Answer: Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery" grants to think tanks and advocacy organizations

Question: What has been funded as part of the education initiatives
Answer: As part of its education-related initiatives, the foundation has funded journalists, think tanks, lobbying organizations and governments

Question: what do the millions in grants given to news agencies do 
Answer: Millions of dollars of grants to news organizations have funded reporting on education and higher education

Question: Critics don't like the foundations use of media why 
Answer: critics have feared the foundation for directing the conversation on education or pushing its point of view through news coverage

Question: Where does the foundation list grants 
Answer: the foundation has said it lists all its grants publicly

Question: who founded teach plus 
Answer: Teach Plus, which was founded by new teachers and advocates against seniority-based layoffs

Question: Why were the gates foundation educational reforms critcized
Answer: they may marginalize researchers who do not support Gates' predetermined policy preferences

Question: What are several of the gates backed policies 
Answer: Several Gates-backed policies such as small schools, charter schools, and increasing class sizes

Question: Have the policies been criticized 
Answer: but some studies indicate they have not improved educational outcomes and may have caused harm

Question: What does 1 specific study of charter schools show 
Answer: Peer reviewed scientific studies at Stanford find that Charter Schools do not systematically improve student performance

Question: What two entities was the foundation split into in october 2016
Answer: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, which manages the endowment assets and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Question: When must the trust resources be spent
Answer: spend all of [the Trust's] resources within 20 years after Bill's and Melinda's deaths

Question: What does warren Buffet stipulate his berkshire hathaway  shares be used for in the 10 year period after his death 
Answer: the proceeds from the Berkshire Hathaway shares he still owns at death are to be used for philanthropic purposes within 10 years

Question: Who founded Northwestern University?
Answer: John Evans

Question: What year was Northwestern founded?
Answer: 1851

Question: In what year did Northwestern University began teaching?
Answer: 1855

Question: What year were women allowed to attend Northwestern University?
Answer: 1869

Question: Where did Northwestern University opened an additional campus at in 2008?
Answer: Education City, Doha, Qatar

Question: What was Northwestern's founding purpose in 1851?
Answer: to serve the Northwest Territory

Question: When did instruction begin at Northwestern?
Answer: 1855

Question: When were women first admitted to Northwestern?
Answer: 1869

Question: How many acres is the modern-day Northwestern campus in Evanston?
Answer: 240

Question: What programs are offered at Northwestern's Quatar campus?
Answer: journalism and communication

Question: Which great lake is Northwestern located along?
Answer: Lake Michigan

Question: What is the name of the city located 12 miles north of Northwestern?
Answer: Chicago

Question: How many founders did Northwestern University have?
Answer: nine

Question: What type of church is Northwestern University associated with?
Answer: Methodist Episcopal Church

Question: What was the date that lay down the foundation for Northwestern University?
Answer: May 31, 1850

Question: How many ministers founded Northwestern University?
Answer: three

Question: What denomination did the all of the founders associated with?
Answer: Methodists

Question: In what environment was the foundation for Northwestern University planned on May 31, 1850?
Answer: a meeting

Question: Who granted a charter to the Trustees of the North-Western University in January of 1851?
Answer: the Illinois General Assembly

Question: What was the religious affiliation of all 9 founding members of Northwestern?
Answer: Methodists

Question: How many of Northwestern's 9 founders were ministers?
Answer: three

Question: Which church did the 9 founders of Northwestern affiliate the university with?
Answer: Methodist Episcopal

Question: What was the name of the first building opened in 1855?
Answer: Old College

Question: What did Northwestern sell to raise funds for it's first building?
Answer: $100 "perpetual scholarships"

Question: Who received free tuition after buying the $100 perpetual scholarships?
Answer: the purchaser and his heirs

Question: Who did Northwestern merge with in 1873?
Answer: Evanston College for Ladies

Question: Who was Northwestern's first dean of women?
Answer: Frances Willard

Question: What sports team did Northwestern field its first of in 1882?
Answer: intercollegiate football

Question: Which already existing schools did Northwestern affiliate itself with in the 1870's and 1880's?
Answer: schools of law, medicine, and dentistry in Chicago

Question: What is the oldest law school in Chicago?
Answer: Northwestern University School of Law

Question: What organization invited Northwestern to become a member in 1917?
Answer: The Association of American Universities

Question: What type of member was Northwestern of the Big Ten Conference?
Answer: a founding member

Question: What type of campus did Northwestern begin construction of during Walter Dill Scott's presidency?
Answer: integrated

Question: What was the orginal name for Northwestern's Ryan Field?
Answer: Dyche Stadium

Question: What merger was proposed and rejected in 1933?
Answer: Northwestern with the University of Chicago

Question: What was Northwestern one of the first six universities in the U.S. to establish in the 1920's?
Answer: a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC)

Question: What first-ever game did Northwestern host in 1939?
Answer: NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

Question: Which war transformed many colleges, including Northwestern?
Answer: World War II

Question: Between 1939 and 1949, how many military officers and personnel were trained on the Evanston and Chicago campuses?
Answer: nearly 50,000

Question: Under what Bill did enrollments surge after the war?
Answer: G.I. Bill

Question: What center was founded by Melville J. Herskovits in 1948?
Answer: Program of African Studies at Northwestern

Question: In 1978, what famous attacks occured at Northwestern?
Answer: first and second Unabomber

Question: In 1999, who uncovered information that exonerated death row inmate Anthony Porter only 2 days before his scheduled death?
Answer: Northwestern student journalists

Question: What Northwestern program is responsible for exonerating more than 10 men?
Answer: the Innocence Project

Question: In 2003, where did Governor George Ryan announce that the sentences of more than 150 death row inmates would be commuted?
Answer: Northwestern School of Law's Lincoln Hall

Question: What was President Arnold R. Weber able to do with Northwestern's finances as the government's support of universities declined in the 70's and 80's?
Answer: stabilize

Question: What has been Northwestern's official color since 1892?
Answer: Purple

Question: Why did Northwestern replace it's original official colors of black and gold?
Answer: too many other universities had used these colors