The Teagle Foundation - Education for American Civic Life

City College of New York’s Colin Powell School

$200,000 over 24 months to create the New York City Leaders Fellowship, which will allow highly motivated undergraduates to become the next generation of civic leaders in New York City.

Minnesota Humanities Center

$250,000 over 36 months to scale Third Way Civics to six sites in Minnesota. Third Way Civics teaches civic knowledge through primary sources and civic skills through classroom exercises.

University of North Carolina Wilmington

$300,000 over 36 months to create the Fragility, Resilience, and Engaged Education in Democracy (FREED) Project.

Drexel University

$275,000 over 36 months to establish the Program in Civic Foundations as a centerpiece of civic education in the Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University.

$285,00 to DePaul University to create a multi-section course called Lived Civics, a centerpiece of the Liberal Studies Program, the common curriculum taken by all students in the seven undergraduate colleges of the University.

Community Learning Partnership

$300,000 to Community Learning Partnership and six colleges to finalize and implement the course U.S. Government for All: Ideals and Possibilities across multiple campuses.

Southeastern University and Ball State University Teachers College

$40,000 over 12 months to Southeastern University and Ball State University Teachers College to develop Third Way Civics.

St. John Fisher College

$25,000 to St. John Fisher College to design a civic education core within a core that seeks to center civic education in the significant local history and current communal needs of Rochester, New York.

Gettysburg College

$25,000 to Gettysburg College to create civic literacy across a students' four-year educational experience.

Rutgers University

$20,000 to Rutgers University-Newark to create courses in the Honors College designed to answer the question: what should students know to be knowledgeable and effective citizens in Newark?

Longwood University

$100,000 to Longwood University, in partnership with the R.R. Moton Museum, to offer high-level professional development to faculty teaching in the Civitae Core curriculum.

Brandeis University

$325,000 to Brandeis University to expand the Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT) to all 50 states.

University of New Hampshire

$25,000 to University of New Hampshire to pilot a first-year experience on civic literacy for incoming students.

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06.13.2024 | TEAGLE IN THE NEWS

America Must Face Its Civic Crisis

The Teagle Foundation is helping a growing number of colleges and universities to reinvigorate civics education and help students learn from the nation's past in order to address today's sociopolitical challenges.

12.13.2022 | TEAGLE IN THE NEWS

Reset this: Change how we teach civics in America

An interdisciplinary civics course at DePaul University frames civics as a way of thinking about how people live together in community.

05.04.2022 | TEAGLE IN THE NEWS

Third-Way Civics

Funded by the Teagle Foundation and anchored at the Minnesota Humanities Center, Third-Way Civics prepares students for lives of public purpose and productive citizenship.