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The Knowledge for Freedom initiative supports programs that invite underserved high school students to college to study humanity’s deepest questions about leading lives of purpose and civic responsibility. 

Knowledge for Freedom Programs

09.23.2024 | TEAGLE IN THE NEWS

Elon Freedom Scholars program welcomes largest cohort to campus

Elon Freedom Scholars welcomed its largest class for their KFF program focused on college preparation, career exploration, and civic learning and engagement.
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07.01.2024 | REPORT

Restoring the Public Purpose of America's Urban Universities

This white paper focuses on the responsibility of universities to their local communities and highlights promising practices, like Columbia's Knowledge for Freedom program.
Restoring the Public Purpose of America's Urban Universities >
02.07.2024 | TEAGLE IN THE NEWS

Understanding civics, from the classroom to the city

Yale hosted the inaugural KFF Faculty Institute, which brought together faculty from 30+ campuses to share ideas on how to launch and strengthen their KFF programs.
Understanding civics, from the classroom to the city >
01.26.2024 | TEAGLE IN THE NEWS

Teaching as Transmission, Transaction or Transformation

Teagle's Knowledge for Freedom initative offers a model for transformational liberal arts education that is scaleable and effective.
Teaching as Transmission, Transaction or Transformation >
06.15.2023 | TEAGLE IN THE NEWS

Trouble the Waters: Freedom Scholars Symposium celebrates achievements of inaugural cohort

The Elon Freedom Scholars program, part of Teagle's Knowledge for Freedom initiative, celebrated its inaugural cohort.

Trouble the Waters: Freedom Scholars Symposium celebrates achievements of inaugural cohort >
03.10.2023 | WEBINAR

Fannie Bialek on teaching Plato and Baldwin Together

Fannie Bialek of Washington University in St. Louis describes how she teaches Plato's Allegory of the Cave with James Baldwin's 1963 'A Talk to Teachers.'
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