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From the Chair
This has been a good year for the Teagle Foundation, both financially and programmatically, and we have much good news to report. We work on many fronts and in many places, but one theme runs through all of our work: concern for students and their learning. That has been a focus of the Foundation throughout the more than sixty years of its operation and it continues now, as we help young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods in New York City get ready to succeed in college, as we carry forward Mr. Teagle's commitment to providing scholarships for the employees and their children in the corporation he served for many years, and as we support innovative programs designed to help American colleges and universities do the best possible job of educating their students.
The leaders of those Teagle programs report that they are making significant progress thanks to the Foundation's support, but it is also true that the Teagle Foundation has learned from their experience. What we at Teagle are learning from our grant programs is the principal theme in Bob Connor's essay, Advancing Student Learning: What We are Learning at the Teagle Foundation, for this year's annual report. I believe you will greatly enjoy it and benefit from it.
One final note: We once again have chosen to present our annual report in electronic rather than print form. Those who share our commitment to advancing student engagement and learning in the liberal arts and sciences will not be troubled, I trust, by the absence of glossy pages and skillfully posed photographs. The more economical electronic format is also swifter, and makes it easier to obtain more detailed information about specific points of interest to individual readers.
John S. Chalsty
Chair of the Board
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