campus partner(s)

American University

state(s)

DC

amount

$250,000

initiative

Cornerstone: Learning for Living

award date

05.2021

project director

Thomas Merrill; Keith Leonard

Grant Summary

$250,000 over 24 months to bring an emphasis on core texts and commonality of intellectual experience to the first-year seminar required of all students, including transfer students, and to expand participation in a 15-credit “Lincoln Scholars” certificate program to explore the great questions of moral and political life in a context of intellectual and political diversity.