11.08.2024 | Teagle in the NewsAcademic Freedom With and Without Academic ResponsibilitySteven Mintz reflects on how Cornerstone programs have successfully developed rich lower-division humanities curricula that put meaning and purpose at the center of the college experience. Read more > | 11/8/2024 12:00:00 AM |
11.01.2024 | Teagle in the NewsWhere the Humanities Are Thriving: Key TakeawaysIn October 2024, The Chronicle of Higher Education convened an expert panel including Cornerstone faculty Melinda Zook and Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr. to share their insights on how the humanities are thriving in today's higher education climate. This piece gathers key takeaways from their advice on strengthening messaging, modernizing course offerings, and reviving interest in the liberal arts. Read more > | 11/1/2024 12:00:00 AM |
10.31.2024 | Teagle in the NewsCollaborative brings together community, private colleges to ease transfersWith support from Teagle, the Iowa Private Transfer Collaborative is making it easier for Iowa students to transfer from community colleges to private four-year institutions. Read more > | 10/31/2024 12:00:00 AM |
10.24.2024 | Teagle in the News2022 and 2023 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal CitationsThis October, President Biden awarded longtime Teagle board member Pauline Yu a 2022 National Humanities Medal. She served on the Foundation's Board of Directors from 2003 to 2024.
Read more > | 10/24/2024 12:00:00 AM |
10.23.2024 | Teagle in the NewsIntroduction to the Humanities: Human HorizonsCornerstone faculty at Houston Community College offer an inside look at their course Intro to the Humanities: Human Horizons and share how it has impacted students at their institution. Read more > | 10/23/2024 12:00:00 AM |
10.21.2024 | Teagle in the NewsPurdue program works to revive liberal arts as key part of the college experienceAs part of their Rethinking College series, PBS spoke with Cornerstone faculty and students at Purdue University and Austin Community College about how the program has impacted the academic experience and the importance of the humanities in their curriculum. Read more > | 10/21/2024 12:00:00 AM |
10.14.2024 | Teagle in the NewsAn interview with Melinda ZookMelinda Zook shares her perspective on Purdue's Cornerstone program and transformative texts. Read more > | 10/14/2024 12:00:00 AM |
10.01.2024 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation awards $250,000 to Arts & SciencesWith support from Teagle, the University of North Dakota is reimagining and developing new curriculum in the humanities, including a new minor in applied humanities. Read more > | 10/1/2024 12:00:00 AM |
09.30.2024 | Teagle in the NewsGoing Deep with Eddie Glaude, Jr. on Informed Reflection In the third episode of the five-part Kelly Corrigan Wonders "Shook by a Book" series (sponsored by Teagle), Kelly discusses the transformative impact of WEB Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk with Princeton professor, columnist for TIME, and frequent TV commentator Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr. Read more > | 9/30/2024 12:00:00 AM |
09.24.2024 | Teagle in the NewsA 'Cornerstone' and 'Hidden Gem': Purdue Liberal Arts Integration receives national recognitionPurdue's Cornerstone program has earned national recognition for its success in capturing and inspiring students. Read more > | 9/24/2024 12:00:00 AM |
09.23.2024 | Teagle in the NewsElon Freedom Scholars program welcomes largest cohort to campusElon Freedom Scholars welcomed its largest class for their Knowledge for Freedom program focused on college preparation, career exploration and civic learning and engagement. Read more > | 9/23/2024 12:00:00 AM |
09.18.2024 | Teagle in the NewsACTA Designates Purdue University’s Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program as a Hidden Gem for The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has recognized Purdue University's Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program as a "Hidden Gem," a program that guides students through a high-quality and coherent interdisciplinary education across the liberal arts. Read more > | 9/18/2024 12:00:00 AM |
09.17.2024 | Teagle in the NewsGoing Deep with Charles Duhigg on Choice and ContextIn the second episode of the five-part Kelly Corrigan Wonders "Shook by a Book" series (sponsored by Teagle), Kelly connects with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and bestselling author Charles Duhigg about a college reading assignment that made a lasting impact on his life. Read more > | 9/17/2024 12:00:00 AM |
09.12.2024 | Teagle in the NewsArtmaking is the Perfect Intersection for Making and DoingCSU's course "The Perfect Intersection" is helping students explore artistic interests as part of the university's Cornerstone program, the Green and Gold initiative.
Read more > | 9/12/2024 12:00:00 AM |
09.09.2024 | Teagle in the NewsAugustana receives Teagle grant to support first-year students and staff developmentWith grant support from Teagle, Augustana College is reimagining its first-year general education curriculum.
Read more > | 9/9/2024 12:00:00 AM |
09.04.2024 | Teagle in the NewsGoing Deep with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Finding FulfillmentThe first episode in the Kelly Corrigan Wonders "Shook by a Book" series (sponsored by Teagle) features an interview with Dr. Vivek Murthy, the Surgeon General, about Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist. Read more > | 9/4/2024 12:00:00 AM |
08.25.2024 | Teagle in the NewsStudents First: Creating Transfer-Friendly Higher Education Pathways for VermontFour additional colleges have signed on to the Vermont Transfer Guarantee, supported by Teagle, creating additional clear pathways and support for transfer students. Read more > | 8/25/2024 12:00:00 AM |
08.21.2024 | Teagle in the News15 students complete humanities seminar at UTSAFifteen high school students participated in UTSA's Knowledge for Freedom program this summer, focused on the theme of migration and democracy. Read more > | 8/21/2024 12:00:00 AM |
08.20.2024 | Teagle in the NewsNorth Carolina’s revolutionary transfer portal forecasts a new national pushFunded in part by a grant from Teagle, a new platform will help students transfer credits to North Carolina colleges and universities and find a clear path to completing their degrees. Read more > | 8/20/2024 12:00:00 AM |
08.16.2024 | Teagle in the NewsAugustana awarded $25,000 Teagle Foundation grant to support first-year course, faculty developmentWith support from Teagle, Augustana College is revising their first-year general education curriculum and grounding it in transformative texts. Read more > | 8/16/2024 12:00:00 AM |
08.14.2024 | Teagle in the NewsCal Maritime Culture and Communication Professors Secure $245,000 Teagle Foundation Grant for InnovaWith support from Teagle, Cal Maritime will implement a new gen ed program designed to integrate humanities-based inquiry within their technical and professional curriculum. Read more > | 8/14/2024 12:00:00 AM |
08.09.2024 | Teagle in the NewsUrsuline College gets grant to revamp 'Rust Belt' coursesWith support from Teagle, Ursuline College will reimagine its first-year composition two-course sequence and recontextualize Cleveland’s history through transformative texts. Read more > | 8/9/2024 12:00:00 AM |
07.29.2024 | Teagle in the NewsInvitations to Practice Democracy: How Campuses Can Reimagine Public Spaces to Inspire Constructive This essay reflects on the vital role of colleges and universities as what Teagle president Andrew Delbanco calls "rehearsal spaces for democracy." Read more > | 7/29/2024 12:00:00 AM |
07.25.2024 | Teagle in the NewsIs a presidency, with all its challenges, still a dream job?Teagle board member Mary Dana Hinton reflects on the vocation of college presidency and its challenges and rewards. Read more > | 7/25/2024 12:00:00 AM |
07.25.2024 | Teagle in the NewsTeaching Psychoanalysis as a Manual for LivingHarold Braswell discusses his experience teaching the course "Life: A User's Manual," part of Saint Louis University's Cornerstone: Learning for Living program. Read more > | 7/25/2024 12:00:00 AM |
07.18.2024 | Teagle in the NewsUC Santa Cruz colleges awarded planning grant from Teagle FoundationWith support from Teagle, UC Santa Cruz will develop a new first-year experience grounded in a common reading list of transformative texts. Read more > | 7/18/2024 12:00:00 AM |
07.16.2024 | Teagle in the NewsNCICU Receives $1.3M Grant to Partner with NCCCS to Streamline Transfer PathwaysWith support from Teagle, NCICU is leveraging a new technology platform to streamline the transfer process for North Carolina students and reduce credit loss. Read more > | 7/16/2024 12:00:00 AM |
07.15.2024 | Teagle in the NewsA new program to teach and internalize American civicsIn this episode, faculty from SUNY Geneseo discuss their new Cornerstone program focused on American civics.
Read more > | 7/15/2024 12:00:00 AM |
06.21.2024 | Teagle in the NewsGeorgia State University receives award for their Teagle-funded liberal arts programGeorgia State University received a Regents' Award from the University System of Georgia for their work on Implementing Experiential, Project-Based Interdisciplinary Curriculum (EPIC) in the Liberal Arts. Read more > | 6/21/2024 12:00:00 AM |
06.13.2024 | Teagle in the NewsAmerica Must Face Its Civic CrisisThe 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. Read more > | 6/13/2024 12:00:00 AM |
06.13.2024 | Teagle in the NewsAI or not, students must still learn to think for themselvesPurdue University's Cornerstone: Learning for Living program gives students necessary skills to read closely and critically, broaden their outlooks, and communicate their ideas—especially in the age of AI. Read more > | 6/13/2024 12:00:00 AM |
06.13.2024 | Teagle in the NewsLyon College receives $175,000 grant from Teagle FoundationLyon College has received a grant from Teagle to launch an innovative core curriculum and a new minor in medical humanities. Read more > | 6/13/2024 12:00:00 AM |
05.30.2024 | Teagle in the NewsWhat do college students learn, anyway?In S2:E8 of College Uncovered, Andrew Delbanco and Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt) reflect on the purpose of college, reimagining general education, and the value of a common intellectual experience for first-year students. Read more > | 5/30/2024 12:00:00 AM |
05.29.2024 | Teagle in the NewsDeep Reading Will Save Your SoulThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, a Teagle grantee, is cited as a reponse to a "hunger for serious study," offering students an essential opportunity to learn by reading great books. Read more > | 5/29/2024 12:00:00 AM |
05.07.2024 | Teagle in the NewsVermont transfer guarantee smooths path from CCV to 4-year degreeAs part of the New England Transfer Guarantee, supported by Teagle, four Vermont colleges and universities have committed to simplify transfer for students who earn associate degrees at the Community College of Vermont. Read more > | 5/7/2024 12:00:00 AM |
04.26.2024 | Teagle in the NewsCommunity colleges, many of Iowa's private colleges, form transfer agreementFifteen Iowa community college presidents convened to sign the Iowa Private Transfer Guarantee with the Iowa Private Transfer Collaborative, a Teagle grantee improving access to transfer across the state. Read more > | 4/26/2024 12:00:00 AM |
04.19.2024 | Teagle in the NewsHelios Program celebrates two years of successThe Helios program at University of Wisconsin-Platteville, supported by Teagle, doubled its partcipation in its second year and gave more than 1,400 students a more meaningful experience in the general education curriculum. Read more > | 4/19/2024 12:00:00 AM |
04.18.2024 | Staff MediaGettysburg College to bestow Honorary Degrees at Class of 2024 CommencementTeagle president Andrew Delbanco will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Gettysburg College this May, recognizing his outstanding contributions to society. Read more > | 4/18/2024 12:00:00 AM |
04.18.2024 | Staff WritingsA Hell of a PerformanceTeagle president Andrew Delbanco reviews The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946 and reflects on Norman Mailer's life as a writer. Read more > | 4/18/2024 12:00:00 AM |
04.15.2024 | Teagle in the NewsPace University Receives $25,000 Teagle Foundation Grant to Establish Fellowship ProgramPace University was awarded a $25,000 Teagle grant to establish an undergraduate fellowship to create the next generation of leaders working on the governance of New York City waterways. Read more > | 4/15/2024 12:00:00 AM |
03.18.2024 | Teagle in the NewsEducation for a life of purposeTeagle supported Stanford's reimagined first-year curriculum COLLEGE, which provides students with a shared intellectual framework to discuss diverse views and encourages students to examine their responsibility to the world. Read more > | 3/18/2024 12:00:00 AM |
03.15.2024 | Staff WritingsThe Great American NovelsTeagle president Andrew Delbanco contributed to the Atlantic's list of Great American Novels, highlighting Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale and Paula Fox's Desperate Characters. Read more > | 3/15/2024 12:00:00 AM |
03.14.2024 | Teagle in the NewsA Road Well-TraveledThe New England Transfer Guarantee, funded by the Teagle Foundation, shows promising outcomes two years into the program. Read more > | 3/14/2024 12:00:00 AM |
02.28.2024 | Teagle in the NewsHigh Schools Will Learn about Freedom and Citizenship through Kent State's New Teagle Foundation ProKent State's Liberation Learners, supported by the Teagle Foundation, will enable promising underserved high school seniors in Northeast Ohio to increase their college preparedness, civic engagement, and sense of belonging. Read more > | 2/28/2024 12:00:00 AM |
02.27.2024 | Teagle in the NewsThe Joys of ‘Leading From the Margins’Teagle board member and Hollins University president Mary Dana HInton discusses her new book Leading From the Margins: College Leadership From Unexpected Places. Read more > | 2/27/2024 12:00:00 AM |
02.27.2024 | Teagle in the NewsLooking for meaning in college? Try discussing a great book.Teagle President Andrew Delbanco stresses higher education's role in helping students think deeply and collectively about life’s most profound questions. Read more > | 2/27/2024 12:00:00 AM |
02.14.2024 | Teagle in the NewsMaking Space for the Humanities Off CampusThe Brooklyn Institue for Social Research, a Teagle grantee, offers financially accessible humanities classes in unconventional settings. Read more > | 2/14/2024 12:00:00 AM |
02.07.2024 | Teagle in the NewsUnderstanding civics, from the classroom to the cityYale hosted the inaugural KFF Faculty Institute, which brought together faculty and program directors from 30+ campuses to share ideas on how to launch, refine, and strengthen their courses. Read more > | 2/7/2024 12:00:00 AM |
01.30.2024 | Teagle in the NewsThe Real Problem With American UniversitiesTeagle board member Brian Rosenberg discusses the need for structural changes at American colleges and universities. Read more > | 1/30/2024 12:00:00 AM |
01.26.2024 | Teagle in the NewsTeaching as Transmission, Transaction or TransformationTeagle's Knowledge for Freedom initative offers a model for transformational liberal arts education that is scaleable and effective. Read more > | 1/26/2024 12:00:00 AM |
01.23.2024 | Teagle in the NewsReimagining the Liberal Arts and HumanitiesTeagle's Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative is part of a widespread effort to reimagine the liberal arts in higher education, thus far infusing humanities courses into the general curriculum at 60 colleges and universities. Read more > | 1/23/2024 12:00:00 AM |
12.08.2023 | Teagle in the NewsProfessors Win Inaugural Ignite Instructor of the Year AwardsCornerstone faculty Paul Lynch and Harold Braswell won Saint Louis University's inaugural Ignite Instructor of the Year Awards for their seminars "Life: A User's Manual" and "Writing as a Way of Life."
Read more > | 12/8/2023 12:00:00 AM |
11.03.2023 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation awards URI grant to support urban high school studentsWith support from Teagle, URI is launching Forgiveness is Freedom Academy: A Knowledge for Freedom Program, which will immerse rising high school seniors in the liberal arts. Read more > | 11/3/2023 12:00:00 AM |
10.26.2023 | Teagle in the NewsSyracuse Speaks: growing the knowledge of the Indigenous CulturesA new class at Onondaga Community College, part of Teagle's Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, focuses on the history of the people who settled Central New York with an emphasis on indigenous texts. Read more > | 10/26/2023 12:00:00 AM |
10.12.2023 | Teagle in the News5 Practical Steps to Address Transfer BarriersWith support from the Teagle Foundation, the Minnesota Private College Council is taking concrete steps to create transfer-receptive campuses across the state. Read more > | 10/12/2023 12:00:00 AM |
10.05.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCommunity College Is the Future of Liberal EducationThe Teagle Foundation is one of the few private grant makers funding liberal education programs at community colleges, where Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs offer thousands of students each year the opportunity to engage with transformational texts and enduring questions. Read more > | 10/5/2023 12:00:00 AM |
10.05.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCHASS Receives $350K Grant to Implement Humanities-Based Certificate ProgramNC State's College of the Humanities and Social Sciences received a two-year, $350,000 grant from Teagle to implement an innovative humanities-based certificate program, Advanced Critical and Creative Thinking (ACCT). Read more > | 10/5/2023 12:00:00 AM |
10.02.2023 | Teagle in the NewsLanguages, Literatures and Cultures Professors Awarded $300,000 to Create a Cornerstone Initiative: With support from Teagle, UMass Amherst is adding two new gen ed courses designed to build a common intellectual experience and community. Read more > | 10/2/2023 12:00:00 AM |
10.01.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe Enemy Within: Former College Presidents Offer WarningsTeagle board member Brian Rosenberg focuses on the need for transformational change in colleges and universities in his new book, Whatever It Is, I'm Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education. Read more > | 10/1/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.28.2023 | Teagle in the NewsHigher Education as Its Own Worst EnemyTeagle board member Brian Rosenberg discusses the need for transformational change in higher education. Read more > | 9/28/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.25.2023 | Teagle in the NewsHigher Ed's Ruinous Resistance to ChangeTeagle board member Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College, discusses the financial and educational models that stymie transformational change in higher education. Read more > | 9/25/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.18.2023 | Teagle in the NewsGen Z Is Ready to Talk. Are Professors Ready to Listen?Purdue University is reaching a new generation of students and leading a liberal arts reform movement through its Cornerstone: Learning for Living program. Read more > | 9/18/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.12.2023 | Teagle in the NewsSLU Continues Jesuit Mission Through University Core With $250,000 Education GrantSaint Louis University will lead a new Cornerstone: Learning for Living program anchored in transformative texts and geared toward STEM students. Read more > | 9/12/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.04.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCollege Students: School Is Not Your JobThe Teagle-supported Great Questions Seminar at Austin Community College offers a humanistic alternative to college careerism. Read more > | 9/4/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.04.2023 | Staff WritingsSchools Should Not Be FactoriesTamara Tweel, Program Director for Civic Initiatives, discusses the history of school prayer and how it informs the question: What is the highest purpose of education and what must we do as a society to orient each school day to reach that highest purpose? Read more > | 9/4/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.03.2023 | Teagle in the NewsBy Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture WarsCOLLEGE, Stanford's Cornerstone: Learning for Living program, was scaled to the entire incoming class with support from Teagle and the NEH. Read more > | 9/3/2023 12:00:00 AM |
08.29.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCatawba College receives $75,000 Grant supporting The PursuitTeagle awarded Catawba College a $75,000 grant to support The Pursuit, a humanities program for first-year students. Read more > | 8/29/2023 12:00:00 AM |
08.16.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCommunity Leaders Visit Columbia's Flourishing Double Discovery Center College Prep Program for LocaColumbia University President Minouche Shafik, elected officials, and local leaders in education made a classroom visit to the Double Discovery Center, which is home to the program model for Teagle's Knowledge for Freedom initiative. Read more > | 8/16/2023 12:00:00 AM |
08.16.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCollege Citizens High School Program Completes Second YearThe Teagle-funded College Citizens program at the University of Dallas, which invites high school students to explore questions of responsibility and community, celebrated its second year. Read more > | 8/16/2023 12:00:00 AM |
08.06.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe liberal arts are alive and well in community collegesTeagle grantee Austin Community College is leading the way in liberal education through its Great Questions Seminar. Read more > | 8/6/2023 12:00:00 AM |
08.04.2023 | Teagle in the NewsDick Ravitch’s legacy lives at CCNY: The new Moynihan Center at City College carries on the ideals oDick Ravitch played an instrumental leadership role in the success of the Moynihan Center at CCNY, in partnership with philanthropic organizations including Teagle. Read more > | 8/4/2023 12:00:00 AM |
07.17.2023 | Teagle in the NewsSimpson College, along with 16 other Iowa colleges and universities, received a three-year grant froA grant from the Tealge Foundation is supporting curriculuar-bridge building and improving the transfer student experience in Iowa. Read more > | 7/17/2023 12:00:00 AM |
07.09.2023 | Teagle in the NewsNKU receives $250,000 ‘Cornerstone: Learning for Living’ grant, largest of any KY public institutionTeagle has awarded NKU the largest “Cornerstone: Learning for Living” grant of any public institution in the Commonwealth to implement a new general education program. Read more > | 7/9/2023 12:00:00 AM |
07.06.2023 | Teagle in the NewsNKU awarded grant to enhance gen-ed experience for studentsNorthern Kentucky University has been awarded a grant from Teagle to implement a new gen ed program impacting 30% of its undergraduate community. Read more > | 7/6/2023 12:00:00 AM |
07.06.2023 | Teagle in the NewsNKU awarded $250K grant to enhance gen-ed experienceWith support from Teagle, Northern Kentucky University is reimagining its approach to gen ed with a thematic, faculty-led curriculum. Read more > | 7/6/2023 12:00:00 AM |
07.05.2023 | Teagle in the NewsNKU Awarded $250K Grant to Enhance Gen-Ed Experience for StudentsNorthern Kentucky University has been awarded a grant from Teagle to implement the STAR Program, a range of introductory writing courses that will prepare students to be "flexible thinkers" and "creative problem solvers." Read more > | 7/5/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.27.2023 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation/NEH grant awarded to Transylvania to enhance humanities curriculumSupport from the Teagle Foundation is helping Transylvania students to grapple with complex questions, make meaningful connections on campus, and gain confidence in discussing transformative texts. Read more > | 6/27/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.19.2023 | Teagle in the NewsGrant will improve transfer experience to Wartburg for Iowa community college studentsWartburg College is one of 17 colleges and universities making liberal arts education more accessibile to transfer students in Iowa with support from the Teagle Foundation. Read more > | 6/19/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.16.2023 | Teagle in the NewsGrant improves transfer student experienceCornell College is making liberal arts education more accessibile to transfer students in Iowa with support from the Teagle Foundation. Read more > | 6/16/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.15.2023 | Teagle in the NewsTrouble the Waters: Freedom Scholars Symposium celebrates achievements of inaugural cohortThe Elon Freedom Scholars program, part of Teagle's Knowledge for Freedom initiative, celebrated its inaugural cohort of 12 local high school students and rising leaders. Read more > | 6/15/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.14.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe Humanities Aren’t Hurting EverywhereAt Lehman College, home to a Teagle-funded transformational text program, enrollment in humanities majors has grown over the last decade. Read more > | 6/14/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.09.2023 | Teagle in the NewsGreat Books Can Heal Our Divided CampusesTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco makes the case for why colleges need more programs where students of different backgrounds can wrestle together with the big questions posed the humanities in this essay for the Wall Street Journal. Read more > | 6/9/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.08.2023 | Press ReleaseColleges and Universities Nationwide Awarded Grants for Novel Humanities-Focused ProgramsThe Teagle Foundation’s grants for the 2023 fiscal year reflect commitment to broadening access to liberal arts and supporting humanities’ power to shape thoughtful, engaged participants in democratic process. Read more > | 6/8/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.07.2023 | Teagle in the NewsDefining Liberal Education—and How to Advertise ItPaul Stern dicussed Ursinus College's Common Intellectual Experience (CIE) course and core curriculum, developed with support from the Teagle Foundation, at a colloquium on liberal education. Read more > | 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.04.2023 | Teagle in the NewsInside the fight to save American college from runaway careerismTeagle grantee Ursinus College, known for its Common Intellectual Experience program, is cited as "an innovator in the renewal of the liberal arts." Read more > | 6/4/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.01.2023 | Teagle in the NewsTransfer Pathways Steer Students and Institutions to Undergraduate SuccessThe Teagle Foundation is helping to create new transfer pathways for liberal arts students in 13 states, a change to which university leaders attribute an uptick in transfers in New England, North Carolina, and beyond. Read more > | 6/1/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.25.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe Meaning of SuccessMore than 3,000 Austin Community College students have been impacted by the Teagle-supported Great Questions Seminar, a discussion-based study of transformative texts. Read more > | 5/25/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.22.2023 | Teagle in the NewsIt’s Time to Act on Community College Transfer ProgramsThe Teagle Foundation is helping to create statewide transfer pathways that streamline course mobility and improve opportunities for community college students. Read more > | 5/22/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.16.2023 | Teagle in the NewsHigher Ed’s Other Obligation - with Dr. Andrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle FoundationTeagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco discussed the future of higher ed as a guest on The EdUp Experience. Read more > | 5/16/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.16.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThinking toward a thriving planet: Notes from the fieldColorado State University students engage with enduring questions in the context of a vulnerable planet through the seminar "Thinking Toward a Thriving Planet," which is part of the Teagle-supported Green and Gold Initative. Read more > | 5/16/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.15.2023 | Teagle in the NewsDa Vinci was a Double MajorRoosevelt Montás, who serves on the advisory council for Cornerstone: Learning for Living, makes the case for weaving the humanities and math/sciences together in college. This approach is underway at Purdue University through the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program. Read more > | 5/15/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.12.2023 | Teagle in the NewsShakespeare, Still Our ContemporarySteven Mintz offers Cornerstone programs at Purdue University and Austin Community College as promising examples of core curriculum with broader cultural literacy and a focus on classic texts' enduring questions. Read more > | 5/12/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.02.2023 | Teagle in the NewsEncouraging Conversations About Enduring QuestionsA Cornerstone: Living for Learning program at Onandaga Community College offers a novel and promising approach to general education grounded in enduring questions. Read more > | 5/2/2023 12:00:00 AM |
04.18.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCollege: What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Second EditionTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's book College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, originally published in 2012, was re-released on April 18 by Princeton University Press in a Second Edition that includes a new chapter on college after the pandemic. Read more > | 4/18/2023 12:00:00 AM |
04.14.2023 | Teagle in the NewsWashington College Receives Teagle Foundation GrantVisions of Freedom in America, a Knowledge for Freedom program at Washington College, brings high school students together to explore transformational texts by civic leaders. Read more > | 4/14/2023 12:00:00 AM |
04.13.2023 | Teagle in the NewsPresident Biden Announces Key Appointments to Boards and CommissionsPauline Yu, who serves on the Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors, has been named to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Read more > | 4/13/2023 12:00:00 AM |
04.10.2023 | Teagle in the NewsA Renaissance from BelowThrough impactful discussion-based courses like the Great Questions Seminar and other Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs, community colleges can help lead a humanistic revival in higher education. Read more > | 4/10/2023 12:00:00 AM |
04.06.2023 | Teagle in the NewsWork Zones Ahead! Michigan is paving new transfer pathways.Support from the Teagle Foundation is creating pathways for community college students in Michigan to transfer to independent colleges and universities. Read more > | 4/6/2023 12:00:00 AM |
04.02.2023 | Teagle in the NewsGen Ed: Its Past, Present and Possible FutureUniversities can create a common intellectual experience for students through general education programs like the Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs at Purdue University and Austin Community College. Read more > | 4/2/2023 12:00:00 AM |
03.23.2023 | Teagle in the NewsTed Hadzi-Antich, Austin Community College – Asking the Great Questions at Community CollegesTed Hadzi-Antich, associate professor of government at Austin Community College, discusses The Great Questions, a faculty founded and lead approach to teaching and learning at the community college that centers the discussion-based study of transformative-texts and the Great Questions they raise in supportive and collaborative classrooms. Read more > | 3/23/2023 12:00:00 AM |
03.15.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe Defenders of Liberal Education Are Destroying ItRoosevelt Montás, who serves on the Advisory Council of the Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, argues that American democracy cannot survive without engaged citizens who are equipped to participate in the country's ongoing conversation about freedom and equality. Read more > | 3/15/2023 12:00:00 AM |
03.08.2023 | Teagle in the NewsAre the Humanities in Crisis?Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco appears on PBS to speak with Michel Martin about the importance of reversing the humanities decline. Read more > | 3/8/2023 12:00:00 AM |
02.22.2023 | Teagle in the NewsIUP Big Ideas program presenting Roosevelt Montas, 'Rescuing Socrates' authorRoosevelt Montás, who serves on the Advisory Council of the Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, will speak at a "Big Ideas" event at IUP about how great books transformed his life and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds. Read more > | 2/22/2023 12:00:00 AM |
02.15.2023 | Teagle in the NewsTeaching in an Age of 'Militant Apathy'In the Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs at Purdue University and more than 25 other colleges, students read classic works that ask the big questions in life, find joy and beauty in poetry, and engage in small group classes taught by seasoned professors. Read more > | 2/15/2023 12:00:00 AM |
02.03.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe Teagle Foundation Builds Diversity and Access in Liberal ArtsUnder the leadership of Andrew Delbanco, the Teagle Foundation is working for greater diversity and greater access. Teagle programs support students and institutions asking humanistic questions about community, freedom, and purpose. Read more > | 2/3/2023 12:00:00 AM |
01.30.2023 | Teagle in the NewsOn Being ErasedMary Dana Hinton, who serves on the Board of the Teagle Foundation, is a co-author of this essay, which argues that Florida’s decision to reject a new Advanced Placement class on African American studies raises unsettling questions. Read more > | 1/30/2023 12:00:00 AM |
01.24.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCommunity college students’ bachelor degree dreams getting farther out of reachTransfer admission guarantees funded by the Teagle Foundation help community college students in New England and Minnesota to enroll in four-year institutions. Read more > | 1/24/2023 12:00:00 AM |
01.19.2023 | Teagle in the NewsAAC&U Annual Meeting Explore Liberal Education’s Role in Preserving DemocracySpeaking on a panel at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) annual meeting in San Francisco, Teagle president Andrew Delbanco said, "The humanities are about raising questions to which there are no clear right or wrong answers." Read more > | 1/19/2023 12:00:00 AM |
01.18.2023 | Teagle in the NewsNEH Chair on Initiatives to Grapple with HistoryNEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe discusses Teagle president Andrew Delbanco's Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which showed how the humanities can help us to assess difficult topics like reparations. Read more > | 1/18/2023 12:00:00 AM |
01.06.2023 | Teagle in the NewsBachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape — and it’s getting woFunded by the Teagle Foundation, transfer admission guarantees in New England and Minnesota are helping community college students transfer to four-year institutions. Read more > | 1/6/2023 12:00:00 AM |
01.06.2023 | Teagle in the NewsBachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tapeThe New England Transfer Guarantee has helped an average of about 100 students per semester transfer in Massachusetts, 40 per semester in Connecticut, and eight per semester in Rhode Island. Twelve Minnesota private colleges in October also launched a transfer admission guarantee for community college students. Read more > | 1/6/2023 12:00:00 AM |
01.06.2023 | Teagle in the NewsBachelor's degree dreams get farther out of reach for one group of studentsTransfer guarantee programs in New England and Minnesota are helping community college students transfer to four-year institutions. Read more > | 1/6/2023 12:00:00 AM |
01.06.2023 | Teagle in the News2022 Jefferson LectureTeagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco delivered the NEH's 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, speaking on "The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future."
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01.05.2023 | Teagle in the NewsUMass Amherst Center for Philosophy and Children Receives $250,000 GrantQuestion Everything, a Knowledge for Freedom program, brings high school students from the Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts, areas to UMass Amherst for philosophical reflection and critical thinking. Read more > | 1/5/2023 12:00:00 AM |
12.31.2022 | Teagle in the NewsThe Work of Moral ImaginationPurpose and Power: Women Shaping History, a Knowledge for Freedom program, will bring a cohort of high school women to the Hollins University campus during the summer of 2023 for an intensive two-week seminar to explore questions about freedom and agency with an emphasis on the lives of women. Read more > | 12/31/2022 12:00:00 AM |
12.13.2022 | Teagle in the NewsReset this: Change how we teach civics in AmericaWith support from an Education for American Civic Life grant, an interdisciplinary civics course at DePaul University frames civics as a way of thinking about how people live together in community. Students reconnect with each other, acknowledge their shared humanity, and work together to address the problems facing the nation. Read more > | 12/13/2022 12:00:00 AM |
12.13.2022 | Teagle in the NewsAI and the Future of Undergraduate WritingPurdue Professor Melinda Zook, a member of the Cornerstone: Learning for Living advisory board, says new technology like ChatGPT is much less of a threat when courses are small and built around frequent feedback and discussion focused on the value and purpose of the liberal arts. Read more > | 12/13/2022 12:00:00 AM |
12.12.2022 | Teagle in the NewsAccessible, Affordable, and Flexible Higher Education for Transfer Students in Ohio14 independent colleges and universities and 11 community colleges are paving the way for accessible, affordable, and flexible higher education for Ohio students. Watch the video of the signing ceremony at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. Read more > | 12/12/2022 12:00:00 AM |
12.06.2022 | Teagle in the NewsHappiness class hooks students on more than a feelingStudents at Colorado State University are taking a philosophy course on happiness as part of a Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant that allows CSU students to explore important questions centered around humanistic concerns. Read more > | 12/6/2022 12:00:00 AM |
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12.01.2022 | Teagle in the NewsThe College of the Future, Part 2Improving transfer pathways between two-year and private four-year institutions could enhance the financial health of four-year colleges while raising baccalaureate attainment for community college students, says Loni Bordoloi Pazich, program director at the Teagle Foundation. The Teagle, Arthur Vining Davis, and Davis Educational Foundations have been collaborating to establish transfer admission guarantees across several states. Read more > | 12/1/2022 12:00:00 AM |
11.22.2022 | Teagle in the NewsHigher Ed's Prestige ParalysisBrian Rosenberg, who serves on the board of the Teagle Foundation, discusses the role that prestige plays in higher education. Read more > | 11/22/2022 12:00:00 AM |
11.21.2022 | Staff WritingsReparations for Black Americans can work if they are reimaginedIn an opinion piece adapted from his Jefferson Lecture, Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco argues that reparations broadly imagined can be a force for unity and reconciliation. Read more > | 11/21/2022 12:00:00 AM |
11.17.2022 | Teagle in the NewsPutting Data to Work for Program Improvement and Student SuccessThe 470 unique students who transferred through the New England Transfer Guarantee between spring 2021 and spring 2022 have an impressive track record of academic achievement, are consistently being awarded significant institutional scholarships, tend to enroll full-time upon transfer to participating institutions, and are, in various ways, diverse. Read more > | 11/17/2022 12:00:00 AM |
11.09.2022 | Teagle in the NewsRIT’s College of Liberal Arts receives grant to enhance philosophy and communication offeringsA Cornerstone: Learning for Living implementation grant to Rochester Institute of Technology will satisfy students’ career-related needs while also equipping them to be civically engaged, empathically attentive thinkers. Read more > | 11/9/2022 12:00:00 AM |
11.08.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCatawba College brings writer, director, producer of Reggie: A Millennial Depression Comedy to campuStudents in Catawba’s The Pursuit program, funded by a Cornerstone: Learning for Living planning grant, discuss the hero's journey with writer, director, and producer Jacques Belliveau. Read more > | 11/8/2022 12:00:00 AM |
11.08.2022 | Teagle in the NewsEntrevista sobre la subvención "Cornerstone" de la Teagle FoundationCheck out this interview with Project Directors at the University of Puerto Rico who are using a Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant to create a common intellectual experience around shared texts. Read more > | 11/8/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.31.2022 | Teagle in the NewsPrivate colleges offer new help for transfer studentsThe Transfer Admission Guarantee makes it easier for community college students to earn a four-year degree at private colleges in Minnesota by promoting transparent processes and building relationships among faculty. Read more > | 10/31/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.27.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCampus Buy-In and Building Consensus for ChangeThis Cornerstone: Learning for Living workshop explores strategies for building student interest in, and administrative support for, efforts to re-center the humanities in general education. Read more > | 10/27/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.20.2022 | Teagle in the NewsWhat can reparations for slavery look like in the United States? One man has ideasTeagle President Andrew Delbanco joined NPR's All Things Considered to discuss what reparations in the U.S. have looked like in the past and what they could look like in the future. Read more > | 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.19.2022 | Teagle in the NewsExcellence in Undergraduate Education Must Include Equity, Says Influential GroupThe 2030 Boyer Commission defines excellence in terms of equity, highlighting the Cornerstone: Learning for Living program at Purdue University as a blueprint for others to emulate because all undergraduates receive an education that blends career preparation, the humanities, and a strong foundation of general education. Read more > | 10/19/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.19.2022 | Teagle in the News2022 Jefferson Lecture in the HumanitiesTeagle President Andrew Delbanco delivered the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington, D.C. on October 19. NEH’s Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. A recording of the lecture, entitled “The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future,” is available to watch here. Read more > | 10/19/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.18.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNew Haven's Henry Seyue Reads Hughes' 'I, Too' At Jefferson LectureHenry Seyue, an alumnus of Citizens, Thinkers, Writers, a Knowledge for Freedom program at Yale University, read the Langston Hughes’ poem "I, Too" at the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which was delivered by Teagle President Andrew Delbanco. Read more > | 10/18/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.18.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNew Haven man, 23, to read poem at national lecture series in D.C.Henry Segue, a Knowledge for Freedom program alumnus, was chosen to read a poem at the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities because he exemplifies how a grounding in liberal arts enables us to study humanity’s deepest questions, wrestle with difficult topics and serve as thoughtful, engaged citizens. Read more > | 10/18/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.14.2022 | Teagle in the NewsTracing America's Long Debate About Reparations For SlaveryIn this interview with NPR's Diane Rehm, Teagle President Andrew Delbanco traces the history of the debate about reparations, and tells Diane he hopes understanding our history can help inform the country’s choices about its future. Read more > | 10/14/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.11.2022 | Teagle in the NewsIndebtedQuoting from Teagle President Andrew Delbanco's recent piece in the The New York Review of Books, which surveys universities reckoning with their historical ties to slavery, this article examines the University of Pennsylvania. Read more > | 10/11/2022 12:00:00 AM |
09.29.2022 | Teagle in the NewsOpen Questions with Andrew DelbancoIn this interview with National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chair Shelly C. Lowe (Navajo), Teagle President Andrew Delbanco talks about liberal arts education, Herman Melville, slavery in American history, and his plans for the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which he will deliver on October 19, 2022. Read more > | 9/29/2022 12:00:00 AM |
09.29.2022 | Teagle in the NewsAndrew Delbanco: Appreciations from Former StudentsFive former students—James Bundy, Janine de Novais, Rachel Friedman, Roosevelt Montás, Deval Patrick—offer their praise for Andrew Delbanco, Teagle President and the 2022 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities. Read more > | 9/29/2022 12:00:00 AM |
09.14.2022 | Teagle in the NewsThe HELIOS Program at UW-PlattevilleThe Cornerstone: Learning for Living project directors at UW-Platteville talk with their Provost about the HELIOS program, a common intellectual experience through a gateway course anchored in core texts and a more coherent experience of general education through a certificate in integrated liberal arts. Read more > | 9/14/2022 12:00:00 AM |
09.13.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCollege Considerations with Columbia's Andy DelbancoTeagle President Andrew Delbanco talks with podcast host Kelly Corrigan about life at college and the link between education and democracy. Read more > | 9/13/2022 12:00:00 AM |
09.07.2022 | Staff WritingsBuilding Transparent Statewide Transfer PathwaysA new op-ed from Loni Bordoloi Pazich, Program Director at The Teagle Foundation, argues that streamlined and transparent statewide transfer pathways between community colleges and independent colleges benefit the receiving institutions, sending institutions and, most importantly, community college students. Read more > | 9/7/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.18.2022 | Teagle in the NewsInnovating at ScaleFunded by the Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, the Great Questions program at Austin Community College is a much needed step towards ensuring that all students receive a genuinely democratic education. Read more > | 8/18/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.17.2022 | Teagle in the NewsIUP to receive $200,000 for “Big Idea” ProgramThe “Big Ideas: Transformative Culture and the Professions” program at IUP will integrate and embed the liberal arts into student career preparation. Read more > | 8/17/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.15.2022 | Teagle in the NewsAcademy of Civic Life Hosts Inaugural Summer Program for Underrepresented High School Students The Academy of Civic Life (ACL) at Stony Brook University offers high school students a real college experience, living on campus and attending a rigorous three-week seminar. Read more > | 8/15/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.11.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNKU awarded grant to revitalize the humanities in gen edA Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant to Northern Kentucky University will energize the humanities in general education through transformative texts. Read more > | 8/11/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.10.2022 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle/NEH grant provides support to innovate in the undergraduate core curriculumFunded by Cornerstone: Learning for Living, the Green and Gold Initiative at CSU is a cohort-based program centered on transformative texts that encourages interdisciplinary thinking about humanity’s most enduring and pressing questions. Read more > | 8/10/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.09.2022 | Teagle in the NewsFreedom and Citizenship: High Schoolers in Upper Manhattan Elevate Their Voices for ChangeFour students share their experiences at Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship program in summer 2022. Read more > | 8/9/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.04.2022 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsReimagining Student AffairsTeagle board member Mary Dana Hinton, who is the President of Hollins University, writes that supporting students requires universities to reimagine their functions holistically, with an eye toward inclusion. Read more > | 8/4/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.02.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNSU Receives Grant from The Teagle Foundation and NEHThrough a Teagle grant, Norfolk State University is creating a common intellectual experience through anchor texts, which will reach 25 percent of the incoming class, and launching a certificate in African American Studies. Read more > | 8/2/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.01.2022 | Teagle in the NewsPhilanthropy: Its Power and InfluenceCiting Teagle as one of the "smaller foundations that punch far beyond their weight class," Steven Mintz argues that foundations can be true drivers of academic innovation, working to give all students access to the same kind of learning opportunities. Read more > | 8/1/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.28.2022 | Teagle in the NewsExpanding Access to Transfer PathwaysWith Teagle funding, the New England Transfer Guarantee will expand access to guaranteed transfer pathways in three additional states: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Eligible community college graduates will be able to transfer directly to participating colleges and universities in their states. Read more > | 7/28/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.28.2022 | Teagle in the NewsBronx Students Have New ‘Visions of the Good’ After Fordham Summer ProgramAt a new Knowledge for Freedom summer program at Fordham called “Visions of the Good in the Bronx,” sixteen students from Bronx high schools spent two weeks learning about philosophy, college life, and more. Read more > | 7/28/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.23.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNorthern Kentucky University first in state to receive national planning grant for general educationNorth Kentucky University is the first in the state to receive a national planning grant for general education. The program, Becoming a STAR, is a faculty-led initiative to energize the humanities and demonstrate their relevance to all undergraduates. Read more > | 7/23/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.22.2022 | Teagle in the NewsPenn State Berks faculty receive grant to weave humanities into STEM majorsWith a Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant, Penn State Berks will implement the Keystone Certificate on six other campuses, allowing students to engage with transformative texts and meet general education requirements. Read more > | 7/22/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.20.2022 | Teagle in the NewsPenn State Berks faculty receive grant to weave humanities into STEM majorsWith a Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant, Penn State Berks will implement the Keystone Certificate on six other campuses, allowing students to engage with transformative texts and meet general education requirements. Read more > | 7/20/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.14.2022 | Teagle in the NewsAndrew Delbanco is named this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the HumanitiesAndrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Read more > | 7/14/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.14.2022 | Teagle in the NewsAndrew Delbanco Named the 2022 Jefferson Lecturer in the HumanitiesAndrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Read more > | 7/14/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.14.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCatawba awarded $25,000 grant supporting pursuit scholarshipA Cornerstone: Learning for Living planning grant to Catawba College will support The Pursuit, which introduces Catawba students to the humanities through transformative texts and encourages engagement with big questions about happiness and purpose. Read more > | 7/14/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.12.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCatawba College receives $25,000 grant supporting The PursuitCatawba College received a $25,000 Cornerstone: Learning for Living planning grant to support The Pursuit, which introduces Catawba students to the humanities through transformative texts. Read more > | 7/12/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.11.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNew humanities certificate offers themed pathways for studentsWith support from the Teagle Foundation, U-M Flint is debuting an innovative Certifiacate in Humanistic Inquiry in the Liberal Arts & Sciences that will serve as a pathway for students to complete a portion of their general education program.
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07.08.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCassidy Hutchinson and Greek tragedy show that courage is rare and cowardice more commonRachel Hadas, who serves on the advisory council for Cornerstone: Learning for Living, meditates on the role of courage in Greek mythology and contemporary politics. Read more > | 7/8/2022 12:00:00 AM |
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06.23.2022 | Staff WritingsEndowed by SlaveryTeagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco examines the question of what higher education owes to Black Americans and how institutions might move beyond acknowledging their ties to slavery and leverage their capacities for research, teaching, and service to community in order to improve public health, precollege education, and the supply of affordable housing. Read more > | 6/23/2022 12:00:00 AM |
06.15.2022 | Teagle in the NewsThe Chronicle of Philanthropy's Grants RoundupOn a list of recent grants, The Chronicle of Philanthropy notes the Teagle Foundation's $3.9 million to community colleges, research universities, and nonprofit educational organizations to expand access to liberal-arts education. Read more > | 6/15/2022 12:00:00 AM |
06.07.2022 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Foundation Announces Nearly $4 Million in New Grants for Liberal Arts EducationThe Teagle Foundation, which works to strengthen and broaden access to liberal arts education, announced $3,940,600 in new grants. These grants, awarded to a range of institutions across the country, from community colleges to research universities as well as nonprofit educational organizations, advance the foundation’s efforts to engage students of all backgrounds with the liberal arts. Read more > | 6/7/2022 12:00:00 AM |
05.24.2022 | Teagle in the NewsWhen Privileged Students ProtestFormer Teagle grantee Eboo Patel, the founder and president of Interfaith America (formerly Interfaith Youth Core), reflects on a student protest that he witnessed at Sarah Lawrence College. Patel mentions Teagle president Andrew Delbano's book, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be. Read more > | 5/24/2022 12:00:00 AM |
05.16.2022 | Teagle in the NewsWhat’s Really Wrong With Our Flawed System of Elite College AdmissionsOne way to expand educational opportunity is through precollege summer programs like the Teagle Foundation's Knowledge for Freedom initiative, which exposes diverse, highly talented, and driven high school students to college faculty and meaningful college-level research, writing, and discussion. Read more > | 5/16/2022 12:00:00 AM |
05.09.2022 | Teagle in the NewsDickinson’s “Knowledge for Freedom” seminar aims to give HS seniors timely lessons through historyFunded by a Knowledge for Freedom initiative grant, Dickinson College’s House Divided Project, which examines the Civil War and Reconstruction, is hosting a college-level seminar for high school seniors to explore questions of freedom, democracy and self-government. The free, three-week program includes trips to Washington D.C., Gettysburg and the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg. It’s aimed at low-income and first generation college-bound students. Read more > | 5/9/2022 12:00:00 AM |
05.04.2022 | Teagle in the NewsThird-Way CivicsFunded by the Teagle Foundation and anchored at the Minnesota Humanities Center, Third-Way Civics responds to a growing desire among students for a democratic education that positions them for economic success but also prepares them for lives of public purpose and productive citizenship. Read more > | 5/4/2022 12:00:00 AM |
05.01.2022 | Teagle in the NewsDo the Great Books Hold the Keys to Success?An interview with Roosevelt Montás, author of Rescuing Socrates, on why liberal education is more important than ever. Montás is a Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and the Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program. Read more > | 5/1/2022 12:00:00 AM |
04.28.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCan Alondra Nelson Remake the Government’s Approach to Science and Tech?Alondra Nelson, Ph.D., the first Black woman to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, is remaking the role of OSTP director. With a policy profile ranging from AI ethics to STEM education, she considers what advances in science and tech are for, and who is served by them. Nelson is a former board member of the Teagle Foundation. Read more > | 4/28/2022 12:00:00 AM |
04.27.2022 | Teagle in the NewsFreedom Scholars program selects inaugural cohort of high school studentsFunded by a Knowledge for Freedom grant, 15 inaugural Freedom Scholars will complete a two-week, intensive, residential experience at Elon for the rising seniors from the Alamance-Burlington School System this summer followed by a year of programming and college application support. Read more > | 4/27/2022 12:00:00 AM |
04.26.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNACU Podcast: Why College is About More Than Getting a JobAndrew Delbanco, president of The Teagle Foundation, talks about the importance of humanities for a democratic society. Read more > | 4/26/2022 12:00:00 AM |
04.13.2022 | Teagle in the NewsAnchors in the Storm—University Leaders Consider the Pandemic’s LessonsThis article about the pandemic's lessons for universities quotes Andrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation, on inequality in higher education. Read more > | 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM |
04.12.2022 | Teagle in the NewsWhy the Great Books Still MatterRoosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, makes the case for the liberal arts. Read more > | 4/12/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.30.2022 | Teagle in the NewsUD’s College Citizens Program to serve first-gen DFW high school seniorsIn July, the University of Dallas (UD) will host its first Knowledge for Freedom program, "College Citizens," which will allow twelve rising high school seniors from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to spend three weeks at UD, taking a liberal arts interdisciplinary class and experiencing life on a college campus for free. Read more > | 3/30/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.30.2022 | Teagle in the NewsEnough With the Culture WarsSupported by a Teagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant, Stanford's Civic, Liberal and Global Education program (COLLEGE for short) creates a shared intellectual experience for first-year students. COLLEGE is designed to engage all entering students, whose interests range widely across disciplines, by confronting them with existential questions about education and democracy. Read more > | 3/30/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.29.2022 | Teagle in the NewsElon Launches Freedom & Democracy Summer Program for High School StudentsFunded by a $300,000 Knowledge for Freedom initiative grant, an interdisciplinary team of professors at Elon University are launching a free, two-week, philosophy-centric residential summer program on democracy and civic engagement for underserved students entering their senior year of high school. Read more > | 3/29/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.23.2022 | Teagle in the NewsLed by CICU, Independent Colleges Partner to Improve Transfer for Community College StudentsThe Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York (CICU) has been awarded a $50,000 planning grant from The Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to create new transfer pathways into the liberal arts for students graduating from community colleges across the state. Read more > | 3/23/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.21.2022 | Teagle in the NewsBetter transfer routes between private and community colleges an underutilized path to equityRead an interview with one of the authors of Ithaka S+R's new playbook, a resource to advance the goals of Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts, an initiative co-sponsored by the Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to develop statewide transfer pathways from community colleges to independent colleges in 20 states. Read more > | 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.20.2022 | Teagle in the NewsStrengthening pathways between private, community colleges importantIthaka S+R's new playbook is a resource to advance the goals of Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts, an initiative co-sponsored by the Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to develop statewide transfer pathways from community colleges to independent colleges in 20 states. Read more > | 3/20/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.18.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNew Playbook About Transfer Pathways at Independent CollegesRead more about Ithaka S+R's new playbook, a resource to advance the goals of Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts, an initiative co-sponsored by the Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to develop statewide transfer pathways from community colleges to independent colleges in 20 states. Read more > | 3/18/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.17.2022 | Press ReleaseNew Playbook Details How Independent Colleges Can Build Statewide Transfer Pathways to Reduce EquityThe Playbook for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts: How to Design and Implement Statewide Pathways from Community Colleges to Independent Colleges is a resource to advance the goals of Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts. Read more > | 3/17/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.17.2022 | Teagle in the NewsRenowned professor, social critic to deliver fifth annual Lester LecturesAndrew Delbanco, Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University and president of the Teagle Foundation, will present three lectures on the theme “What Do Our Colleges and Universities Owe to Black Americans?” at Mercer University on March 24-25. All lectures are free and open to the public. Read more > | 3/17/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.15.2022 | Teagle in the News Rosemont’s Business Program Seniors Prototype Using Designing Your Life to Develop Capstone ProjectIn the business program at Rosemont College, Teagle funding is helping undergraduates apply the design thinking process so that each student’s final capstone project becomes meaningful and relevant to them individually as the starting prototype of their post-graduate career. Read more > | 3/15/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.10.2022 | Teagle in the NewsPhilosopher Wins $300K Grant For “Good Life” Project With Bronx TeensA $300,000 Knowledge for Freedom initiative grant to Fordham University will fund a three week summer bridge program in philosophy for fifteen high school students from the Bronx. Read more > | 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.09.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCommunity College Scholars Share How to Make an Equitable ClassroomLearn how a Teagle grant is helping Colorado community colleges to streamline curriculum and strengthen pedagogy in mathematics. Read more > | 3/9/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.09.2022 | Teagle in the NewsFordham Launches ‘Visions of the Good’ for Bronx High School StudentsA three-week summer program called "Visions of the Good in the Bronx" at Fordham University, funded by a $300,000 Knowledge for Freedom grant from The Teagle Foundation, will allow high school students from the Bronx to contemplate big philosophical questions, explore a college campus, and receive college application help. Read more > | 3/9/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.08.2022 | Teagle in the NewsBuilding a Bridge to Higher Education from Michigan Community CollegesA Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts initiative grant to the Michigan Community College Association (MCCA) and Michigan Independent Colleges & Universities (MICU) will be used to improve the transfer process from community colleges to four-year independent institutions. Read more > | 3/8/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.08.2022 | Teagle in the NewsThe Pandemic’s Silver Lining for FacultyWith Teagle funding, the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty encourages institutions to better support non-tenure-track faculty, reducing the precarity that contingent faculty face. Read more > | 3/8/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.04.2022 | Teagle in the NewsOh, the humanities: Can these colleges help save tradition in higher education?The Cornerstone: Living for Learning initiative, which makes a rigorous liberal education accessible to every student, is flourishing at Purdue University, American University, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Stanford University, and SUNY Onondaga Community College. Read more > | 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.03.2022 | Teagle in the NewsHow America’s broken undergraduate education system can be fixedRoosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, is quoted in a piece about how student learning needs to be reimagined. Read more > | 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.01.2022 | Teagle in the NewsHow Humanities Play a Vital Role for Community College StudentsA profile of the impact and importance of the "Great Questions" course at Austin Community College. It’s a humanities-based, student-centered discussion class, where classic texts are connected with the students' modern lives. Read more > | 3/1/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.26.2022 | Teagle in the NewsIn 1961, MLK taught a college class. Its syllabus might be contentious todayRoosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, discusses the "Social Philosophy I" course that Martin Luther King Jr. taught at Morehouse College in 1961. Read more > | 2/26/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.21.2022 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsBrian Rosenberg on How the Humanities End—and Might Be Saved with Brendan BoyleBrian Rosenberg, who serves on Teagle's board, talks about the value of the humanities in American higher education, especially for historically underserved students. He highlights Teagle's Cornerstone: Living for Learning and Knowledge for Freedom initiatives. Read more > | 2/21/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.20.2022 | Teagle in the NewsThe Odyssey of Roosevelt MontásThis review of Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montás calls it a valuable and thoughtful book that makes a contribution to the ongoing debate over the past, present, and future of liberal-arts education in the United States. Montás is a Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program. Read more > | 2/20/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.18.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCore curriculum: A case for the influence of four key thinkersThis review of Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montás calls it refreshing and nuanced, heartfelt and humane. Montás is a Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program. Read more > | 2/18/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.18.2022 | Teagle in the NewsAn Ode to The Core CurriculumRoosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, argues in favor of teaching the classics to everyone—especially marginalized students—and talks about how the "Great Books" influenced his life. Read more > | 2/18/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.16.2022 | Teagle in the NewsPresident Biden Announces OSTP LeadershipAlondra Nelson, Ph.D., former board member of the Teagle Foundation, will serve as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Read more > | 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.07.2022 | Staff WritingsThe University CrisisAndrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation, discusses the impact of Covid-19 on the future of higher education. Read more > | 2/7/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.30.2022 | Teagle in the NewsHonors College Grant to Aid Underprivileged High-SchoolersA $25,000 Knowledge for Freedom planning grant will support a three-week symposium titled “One Person Can Change the World” for underprivileged high school juniors in Broward County, Florida. Read more > | 1/30/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.21.2022 | Teagle in the NewsGreat books are still greatRoosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, writes that he did not need to be rich, privileged, or cultured to find something in great literature that spoke to the deepest sense of his own being. Since 2009, he has been introducing low-income high school students to intellectual traditions inspired by Socrates. Old classics still have the power to move and transform young people. Read more > | 1/21/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.20.2022 | Teagle in the NewsGreat Books, Graduate Students, and the Value of Fun in Higher EducationLeonard Cassuto joins in the generalist-versus-specialist debate inspired by Rescuing Socrates, a new book by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program. Read more > | 1/20/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.17.2022 | Teagle in the NewsA Reckoning in BostonThis 80-minute documentary tells the story of two students in the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a program with funding from The Teagle Foundation that offers free college humanities classes to low-income adults. A Reckoning in Boston will remain available on the PBS video app until February 16. Read more > | 1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.14.2022 | Staff WritingsGeneral Education and the HumanitiesTeagle Program Director Loni Bordoloi Pazich and Senior Program Officer Annie W. Bezbatchenko highlight four of the more than thirty institutions that are drawing on their institutional strengths and priorities to embed the humanities in general education as part of the Cornerstone: Living for Learning grant program. Read more > | 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.07.2022 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsThis Is the Way the Humanities EndBrian Rosenberg, who serves on the board of the Teagle Foundation, speaks to Roosevelt Montás's approach to the humanities, which moves away from hyper-specialization and toward a meaningful encounter with a new generation of students. Read more > | 1/7/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.06.2022 | Teagle in the News Rethinking the Performance GapThe Teagle Foundation's Knowledge for Freedom Program appears on a list of seven proven strategies to help colleges advance academic equity, reduce disparities in graduation rates, and maximize every student's educational outcome.
Read more > | 1/6/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.04.2022 | Teagle in the NewsTeach public school kids the classic booksRoosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, argues that low-income students deserve the same opportunities to read the classics.
Read more > | 1/4/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.03.2022 | Teagle in the NewsRescuing Great Books from the ElitesRead (or listen) to an interview with Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program about his life and his book Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Read more > | 1/3/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.03.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCan the Humanities Truly Transform Undergraduates’ Lives?Steven Mintz summarizes and responds to Louis Menard's review of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.
Read more > | 1/3/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.03.2022 | Teagle in the NewsRoosevelt Montás on the Virtues of a Liberal EducationAn interview with Roosevelt Montás about liberal education and his critically acclaimed book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Montás is a Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program. Read more > | 1/3/2022 12:00:00 AM |
12.31.2021 | Teagle in the NewsOpinion: In an acrimonious time, some welcome fresh attention to Socrates and civilized arguingColumnist George Will favorably reviews Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.
Read more > | 12/31/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.21.2021 | Teagle in the NewsFirst-Generation Brooklynites Are Getting Into College Thanks to This Growing OrganizationThe Knowledge for Freedom Program is helping first-generation and low-income students at 11 Brooklyn high schools to achieve their higher education goals. Read more > | 12/21/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.17.2021 | Teagle in the NewsYes, the Great Books Make Us Better PeopleIn The New York Times, John McWhorter favorably reviews Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.
Read more > | 12/17/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.16.2021 | Teagle in the NewsElon University's Freedom ScholarsWith support from a $300,000 Teagle grant, Elon’s Freedom Scholars to welcome area high school students in summer 2022. Read more > | 12/16/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.15.2021 | Teagle in the NewsDo Great Books still matter? For Roosevelt Montás, they are essential.Read more about Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, and his defense of a great books curriculum in his new book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.
Read more > | 12/15/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.15.2021 | Staff WritingsAchieving Both Breadth and Depth in Education PhilanthropyTeagle Senior Program Officer Annie W. Bezbatchenko and Program Director Tamara Mann Tweel on how the Foundation balances focus and reach across initiatives. Read more > | 12/15/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.14.2021 | Teagle in the NewsEp. 40 Roosevelt Montás, "Rescuing Socrates"Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, joins the Booknotes+ podcast from C-Span to discuss his latest book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.
Read more > | 12/14/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.10.2021 | Teagle in the NewsHistoric Gift to Hollins UniversityTeagle trustee Mary Dana Hinton, president of Hollins University, announces historic gift to support scholarships for needy students. Read more > | 12/10/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.06.2021 | Teagle in the NewsThe Left Should Defend Classical EducationThis review of Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member argues that a great books education should be available to working-class people.
Read more > | 12/6/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.05.2021 | Teagle in the NewsProfessional success is liberal arts colleges’ best-kept secretRead more about how a $280,000 Teagle grant supported the integration of the liberal arts in undergraduate business education. Read more > | 12/5/2021 12:00:00 AM |
11.18.2021 | Teagle in the News‘The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs’An interview with Richard Detweiler, President of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, about his recent book, The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry and Accomplishment. His research into the long-term behavioral impact of liberal arts education was funded by a $100,000 grant from The Teagle Foundation. Read more > | 11/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
11.16.2021 | Teagle in the NewsWhy the Core Matters for a New GenerationRoosevelt Montás on how if done right, required classes bring campuses together and are a boon to the humanities. Read more > | 11/16/2021 12:00:00 AM |
11.07.2021 | Teagle in the News‘Rescuing Socrates’ Review: Great Books, Greatly MissedA review of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program. Read more > | 11/7/2021 12:00:00 AM |
11.04.2021 | Teagle in the NewsFinding Dignity and Excellence in the Great BooksIn this excerpt from Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation, Roosevelt Montás on how classic texts can be transformative for all students. Read more > | 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM |
11.03.2021 | Teagle in the NewsMeet Shaun Abreu, City Council’s Newest Member From Upper ManhattanAbreu is an alumn of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia's Knowledge for Freedom Program. Read more > | 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM |
10.27.2021 | Teagle in the News'Cornerstone: Learning for Living' Grant Awarded to the SLU University CoreSaint Louis University will build pathways to the humanities in new University Core with Teagle funding. Read more > | 10/27/2021 12:00:00 AM |
10.26.2021 | Teagle in the News‘Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy Of Detroit’ Wins $200K Documentary PrizeTeagle President Andrew Delbanco served on the jury of the 2021 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, a late-stage American history documentary competition. Read more > | 10/26/2021 12:00:00 AM |
10.18.2021 | Staff WritingsRevitalizing the Humanities with General EducationTeagle President Andrew Delbanco and Program Director Loni Bordoloi Pazich on recent successes of Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs. Read more > | 10/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
10.18.2021 | Teagle in the News“The Future of the Humanities, The Future of Our Country”An interview with Dr. Andrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation, with WGCU, the local PBS and NPR station for Southwest Florida. Read more > | 10/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
10.06.2021 | Teagle in the NewsCivil Renewal Project at Ball State University Gains National AttentionWith Teagle funding, Ball State will collaborate with Southeastern University and the Minnesota Humanities Center to develop undergraduate students' civic identities. Read more > | 10/6/2021 12:00:00 AM |
09.30.2021 | Teagle in the NewsStanford’s new Civic, Liberal and Global education program awarded an implementation grantAs part of the Cornerstone: Living for Learning initiative, The Teagle Foundation and The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $250,000 to Stanford University to implement their Civic, Liberal and Global Education first-year requirement, otherwise known as COLLEGE. Read more > | 9/30/2021 12:00:00 AM |
09.20.2021 | Press ReleasePoets Reginald Dwayne Betts and Major Jackson to Kick Off New Workshop SeriesTeaching with Transformative Texts series will offer practical ways to strengthen general education and reinvigorate the humanities as more students turn to pre-professional fields. Read more > | 9/20/2021 12:00:00 AM |
09.20.2021 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsWhy a Liberal Education is Worth DefendingSteven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin reviews Roosevelt Montás' forthcoming book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.
Read more > | 9/20/2021 12:00:00 AM |
09.02.2021 | Teagle in the News‘Work with hope’ – a poet and classics scholar on facing the flood of bad newsRachel Hadas, Cornerstone: Living for Learning advisory council member, reflects on the Covid-19 pandemic. To find solace in the endurance and adaptability of human beings, she draws on the wisdom of Homer, Hesiod, Emily Dickinson, Jane Goodall, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry David Thoreau, and even Teagle President Andrew Delbanco. Read more > | 9/2/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.31.2021 | Teagle in the NewsGrant Helps Colleges Plan Pathways for Community College StudentsEckerd College is partnering with Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida to establish a Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts in Florida consortium. Read more > | 8/31/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.31.2021 | Teagle in the NewsTU to Improve Community College TransitionsTiffin University has joined the Teagle-funded Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts to improve community college transfer opportunities. Read more > | 8/31/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.25.2021 | Teagle in the NewsA Quest of Their OwnHigh school students got a taste of the liberal arts experience through Ursinus College’s Teagle-funded Knowledge for Freedom program called Freedom, Citizenship, and Equality. Read more > | 8/25/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.16.2021 | Teagle in the NewsCSU helps launch national commission to create blueprint for undergrad educationTeagle President Andrew Delbanco will serve on the Boyer 2040 Commission, which will examine how to improve undergraduate education. Read more > | 8/16/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.15.2021 | Teagle in the NewsWhat Should Students Learn?Roosevelt Montás, senior lecturer in American Studies at Columbia University and Rene Plessner Lecturer for its Freedom and Citizenship program and member of the advisory council for Cornerstone: Learning for Living, argues that the humanities can be reinvigorated through general education and transformative texts. Read more > | 8/15/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.15.2021 | Teagle in the NewsDegrees of AnxietyThis essay about what college is, and what it does, includes a mention of Teagle President Andrew Delbanco. Read more > | 8/15/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.13.2021 | Teagle in the NewsAndrew Delbanco Joins Boyer 2040 CommissionTeagle's President joins the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities' newly formed Boyer 2040 Commission, which aims to realize the potential of undergraduate education at research universities. Read more > | 8/13/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.06.2021 | Teagle in the NewsUNCW Receives Grant to Study Wilmington's 1898 Coup and MassacreWith funding from Teagle through Education for American Civic Life, UNC Wilmington will educate students and contribute to local community history. Read more > | 8/6/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.05.2021 | Teagle in the NewsGeorge Fox Program Gives Latino Woodburn High School Students Opportunity to Learn about Humanities This summer, George Fox launched Liberation Scholars, its bilingual Knowledge for Freedom program. Read more > | 8/5/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.04.2021 | Teagle in the NewsHumanities Center Summer Program Teaches the Classics to Local High SchoolersThis summer, Boston University's Center for the Humanities launched its Knowledge for Freedom program, The One and the Many at BU. Read more > | 8/4/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.03.2021 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsKnowledge for Freedom SeminarParticipants in Dickinson College's The House Divided Project, Knowledge for Freedom Seminar share their experiences with the program. Read more > | 8/3/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.02.2021 | Teagle in the NewsUNCW Receives $25,000 Teagle Foundation GrantThe University of North Carolina Wilmington received a $25,000 grant from The Teagle Foundation to fund a project that explores the meaning and fragility of democracy. Read more > | 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.30.2021 | Teagle in the NewsDickinson College Seminar a Lesson in Freedom, College PrepThe House Divided Project, a Knowledge for Freedom program introduces low income students to college by studying the American Civil War. Read more > | 7/30/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.28.2021 | Teagle in the NewsIs Your Degree Program Too Complicated?Winston-Salem State University, one of four institutions convened by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and supported by a $300,000 grant from The Teagle Foundation, recently completed a curricular coherence project.
Read more > | 7/28/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.28.2021 | Teagle in the NewsBriefs: Coshocton barns sought for history projectWith a grant from the Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, the Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to Liberal Arts will address some of the most challenging barriers faced by community college students transferring to four-year colleges and universities. Read more > | 7/28/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.26.2021 | Teagle in the NewsNew Partnership Aims to Connect Latino High Schoolers to College LifeGeorge Fox University's Knowledge for Freedom program, Liberation Scholars, expands access to the liberal arts by priortizing inclusivity, including reading transformative texts in English and Spanish. Read more > | 7/26/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.21.2021 | Teagle in the NewsClark State to Participate in Transfer Project to Establish Pathways to Bachelor DegreesClark State College is part of the Council of Independent Colleges' Teagle-funded Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts. Read more > | 7/21/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.21.2021 | Teagle in the NewsBluffton Joins Consortium to Improve Pathways for Community College TransfersBluffton University is part of the Council of Independent Colleges' Teagle-funded Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts. Read more > | 7/21/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.21.2021 | Teagle in the NewsNew Consortium to Aid StudentsOhio Wesleyan College is part of the Council of Independent Colleges' Teagle-funded Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts. Read more > | 7/21/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.20.2021 | Teagle in the NewsHow 14 Private Colleges are Planning to Improve Community College TransferWinne Gerhardt, director of new Ohio consortium, on streamlining transfer pathways. Read more > | 7/20/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.20.2021 | Teagle in the NewsLakeland Included In New Transfer Pathways Initiative For Three DisciplinesLakeland Community College is part of the Council of Independent Colleges' Teagle-funded Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts. Read more > | 7/20/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.19.2021 | Teagle in the NewsClassic Books or Diverse Books? That’s a False BinaryRoosevelt Montás, longtime instructor in Columbia's Knowledge for Freedom program and member of the advisory council for Cornerstone: Learning for Living, on core texts' importance for students of all backgrounds. Read more > | 7/19/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.19.2021 | Teagle in the NewsTri-C, Ursuline Join Consortium to Ease Transfer Credits to Four-year CollegesCuyahoga Community College and Ursuline College are two of 14 Ohio schools participating in the Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts, funded by Teagle and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. Read more > | 7/19/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.18.2021 | Teagle in the NewsSeamless College Transfer Program Expands Across New EnglandFunding from Teagle and the Arthur Davis Vining Foundations will scale the New England Transfer Guarentee to Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Read more > | 7/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.17.2021 | Teagle in the NewsACI, Illinois Community College Board and Illinois Board of Higher Education to Collaborate, DevelopFunding from Teagle and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will ease transfer process from two- to four-year schools. Read more > | 7/17/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.15.2021 | Teagle in the NewsAssociated Colleges of Illinois Awarded Grant to Help Improve Four-Year Degree Completion RatesFunding from Teagle and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will ease transfer process from two- to four-year schools. Read more > | 7/15/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.14.2021 | Teagle in the NewsPrivate Colleges, Two-year Publics Link Up on Pathways ProjectFunding from Teagle and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will streamline transfer process for Ohio students. Read more > | 7/14/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.14.2021 | Teagle in the NewsProfessor Honored for Service EffortsEmma Powell, who developed CMU's Certified Nonprofit Professional Credential with funding from Teagle, was honored for her contributions to the community. Read more > | 7/14/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.13.2021 | Press ReleaseTeagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Announce $1.625 Million in GrantsUnder the jointly sponsored Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, the latest round of grants will go to 21 colleges and universities across the country.
Read more > | 7/13/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.01.2021 | Staff WritingsMy Civics Students Taught me how to Honor an Imperfect Country on the Fourth of JulyTeagle Program Director Tamara Mann Tweel recounts how transformative texts can shape students' understanding of their role in civic life. Read more > | 7/1/2021 12:00:00 AM |
06.28.2021 | Teagle in the NewsGreat Questions Seminars changing the way we learn at ACCFunded by a $260,000 Cornerstone: Living for Learning implementation grant, Austin Community College runs a Great Questions Seminar program, the only college readiness course of its kind in the nation at a community college. Read more > | 6/28/2021 12:00:00 AM |
06.24.2021 | Press ReleaseArthur Vining Davis and Teagle Announce 7 New Grants to Create Transfer PathwaysThe Teagle Foundation and AVDF approved seven new grants totaling $700,000 to create transfer pathways for community college students to independent colleges. Read more > | 6/24/2021 12:00:00 AM |
06.23.2021 | Teagle in the NewsFaculty work to revitalize humanities at BerksTwo Penn State Berks professors were awarded a Cornerstone: Living for Learning initiative planning grant to lay the groundwork for the Keystone Certificate, which will introduce nonhumanities majors to the humanities. Read more > | 6/23/2021 12:00:00 AM |
06.18.2021 | Foundation UpdatesTeagle Announces Two New Board MembersSheryl Hilliard Tucker, Executive Director of The Board Challenge and Mary Dana Hinton, President of Hollins College have joined Teagle's Board of Directors. Read more > | 6/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
06.18.2021 | Teagle in the NewsLoyola to participate in pathways to college grant through MICUATeagle awarded a $50,000 planning grant to The Maryland Independent College and University Association (MICUA) to help more community college students in Maryland achieve their goal of earning a degree from a four-year college. Read more > | 6/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
06.08.2021 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation Approves $50K Grant to MICUAThe grant will fund planning to streamline the process for students transferring to a four-year college. Read more > | 6/8/2021 12:00:00 AM |
06.02.2021 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Award Bard College $50,000The Teagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Bard College a $50,000 Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative grant to develop a new core cluster of second-year Common Courses. Read more > | 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.24.2021 | Teagle in the NewsGrant: Great Works Academic Certificate ProgramA Cornerstone: Living for Learning initiative grant will make core texts in the humanities more widely read by UNLV students. Read more > | 5/24/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.18.2021 | Teagle in the NewsBiden’s Free College Plan Pays Too Much, Gets Too LittleThis article critiquing Biden's College Promise Plan quotes Teagle Program Officer Loni Bordoloi Pazich. Read more > | 5/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.18.2021 | Teagle in the NewsDickinson College’s House Divided Project Explores the Struggle for Freedom in the USMatthew Pinsker, Director of the Teagle-funded House Divided Program and Todd Mealy, Assistant Director spoke about the program. Read more > | 5/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.14.2021 | Teagle in the NewsA New Future for Humanities Funding?This article proposes that higher education funders should support under-resourced institutions. It quotes Teagle President Andrew Delbanco's remarks at a recent ACLS panel. Read more > | 5/14/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.13.2021 | Teagle in the NewsFaculty Collaboration and Technology in the Liberal ArtsRead more about Ithaka S+R's assessment of Teagle’s “Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience” program (2014-2016), which funded a group of higher education consortia to test whether collaboratively developed technology-enhanced educational resources can cost-effectively increase high-quality learning experiences. Read more > | 5/13/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.13.2021 | Staff WritingsKubrick's Human ComedyAndrew Delbanco reviews David Mikics' Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker. In his review of Mikics' biography, Delbanco analyzes Kubrick's career, ambition, and impact on cinema.
Read more > | 5/13/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.12.2021 | Teagle in the NewsDelbanco Elected President of the Society of American HistoriansTeagle President Andrew H. Delbanco has been elected President of the Society of American Historians. His term will begin in May 2021. Read more > | 5/12/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.08.2021 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsTo Better Support the Success of Students of Color, Colorado Instructors Must Disrupt Racial BiasesJames Gray, math instructor at Community College of Aurora applied the Teagle-funded Equity Scorecard to check implicit bias and make his teaching more effective. Read more > | 5/8/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.05.2021 | Teagle in the NewsN.C. Community College Students Take Advantage of Low CostsThis segment features a student on how their path from a two- to four-year college was made easier because of Teagle-funded work by the Council of Independent Colleges and North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities. Read more > | 5/5/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.03.2021 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsWhy Core Texts Matter to Community College StudentsAndrea Fabrizio and Gregory Marks, directors of the Teagle-funded Core Books at CUNY program explain how core texts are integral to community college students' education. Read more > | 5/3/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.01.2021 | Teagle in the NewsFour private colleges take new steps to welcome transfersThis article reports on the results of a $25,000 Teagle grant to the Minnesota Private College Council to plan the infrastructure for sector-wide transfer arrangements with the two-year campuses of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MSCU) based on an assessment of opportunities for more independent colleges to participate in the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum and recruit community college students from MSCU. Read more > | 5/1/2021 12:00:00 AM |
04.28.2021 | Teagle in the NewsBiden’s Plan Would Make Community College Free. It Could Also Have Unintended Downsides.This article about the American Families Plan quotes Teagle Program Director Loni Bordoloi Pazich on its potential consequences. Read more > | 4/28/2021 12:00:00 AM |
04.21.2021 | Teagle in the NewsNCCCS, NCICU Sign Articulation AgreementNorth Carolina Community College System and North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities signed an agreement to make the transfer process seamless for students studying psychology and sociology. Read more > | 4/21/2021 12:00:00 AM |
04.20.2021 | Staff MediaMonday Musings: Democracy and EducationTeagle Program Director Tamara Mann Tweel was the keynote speaker at Denison University's Lisska Center for the Study of the Humanities's Democracy and Education virtual event. Read more > | 4/20/2021 12:00:00 AM |
03.31.2021 | Teagle in the NewsAfter Classes Moved Online, Enrollment SkyrocketedThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, a Teagle grantee, has experienced increased interest and enrollment of students in its discussion-based adult education classes since transitioning online due to the pandemic. Read more > | 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM |
03.29.2021 | Teagle in the NewsDoing Transfer RightThe American Council on Education's new report on transfer mentions the New England Independent College Transfer Guarantee as a model. Read more > | 3/29/2021 12:00:00 AM |
03.24.2021 | Teagle in the News How to Improve Teaching Quality and EffectivnessSteven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, explains how to improve university teaching by overcoming counterproductive assumptions. Read more > | 3/24/2021 12:00:00 AM |
03.15.2021 | Teagle in the NewsThe Class Every Pre-med Should TakeA Johns Hopkins student reflects on the value of studying literature as a STEM student in a course established through the University's Cornerstone: Learning for Living first year seminar program. Read more > | 3/15/2021 12:00:00 AM |
02.24.2021 | Teagle in the NewsDickinson College's House Divided Project to Offer Framework for Summer Program for Low-income StudeDickinson expands the House Divided Program to high schoolers with Teagle funding. Read more > | 2/24/2021 12:00:00 AM |
02.18.2021 | Staff WritingsTeaching Humanities from a DistanceTeaching during the pandemic can be successful when the focus is on mentoring and on engaging students with transformative texts. Read more > | 2/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
02.16.2021 | Staff WritingsFree Community College Requires New Paths to Four-year InstitutionsThis op-ed makes the case that free college policies must include transfer pathways to four-year public or private colleges. Read more > | 2/16/2021 12:00:00 AM |
02.16.2021 | Staff WritingsJohn C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities?Teagle President Andrew Delbanco reviews historian Robert Elder's recent biography of John C. Calhounin The New York Times. Read more > | 2/16/2021 12:00:00 AM |
02.15.2021 | Teagle in the NewsAll Politics is Local: Changemaking Happens Closer to Home Than You RealizeElaina Pevide, a participant in the Teagle-funded ENACT Program, explains why local politics is a powerful avenue for affecting change. Read more > | 2/15/2021 12:00:00 AM |
02.15.2021 | Teagle in the NewsShattering Invisible DarknessSimone Henderson, a 2020 Teagle Humanities Fellow, reflects on the relevance of fear and love in the works of James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Toni Morrison to our contemporary moment.
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02.01.2021 | Teagle in the NewsNew BU Center for the Humanities Summer Program for Local High Schoolers Launches with $300K GrantUnderserved high school students will study the humanities at "The One and the Many at BU," a Teagle-funded summer program. Read more > | 2/1/2021 12:00:00 AM |
01.26.2021 | Staff WritingsEducating Future Law Enforcement OfficersThis op-ed by Teagle Program Consultant Annie W. Bezbatchenko and Dara N. Byrne of John Jay College contends that following the January 6 assault on the Capitol, criminal justice education must include the humanities. Read more > | 1/26/2021 12:00:00 AM |
01.22.2021 | Teagle in the NewsGSU EPIC Students Contribute to COVID-19 ResearchGeorgia State University students who are participants in the Teagle-funded EPIC Program contributed to research on public opinion ratings of political leaders infected with COVID-19, featured in the Washington Post. Read more > | 1/22/2021 12:00:00 AM |
01.21.2021 | Teagle in the News‘Inspired choice’: Biden appoints sociologist Alondra Nelson to top science postPresident Joseph R. Biden has appointed Teagle Foundation Director Alondra Nelson to the position of Deputy Director for Science and Society in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Read more > | 1/21/2021 12:00:00 AM |
01.18.2021 | Teagle in the NewsTalking Women in Higher Ed and Tech with Loni Bordoloi PazichPhilanthropy Women interviews Teagle Program Director Loni Bordoloi Pazich about her work in higher education philanthropy. Read more > | 1/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
01.14.2021 | Staff WritingsReclaiming the Role of the Humanities in our DemocracyIn light of the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, this op-ed argues that the humanities are crucial to an education that equips students for knowing, sharing, and passing on the essential values of our democracy. Read more > | 1/14/2021 12:00:00 AM |
01.08.2021 | Teagle in the NewsA Failure to EducateInside Higher Ed quotes Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco on the role of the humanities in responding to the Capitol riots. Read more > | 1/8/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.18.2020 | Teagle in the NewsFoundation Chief Andrew Delbanco Wants All Students to Wrestle With Great BooksThe Wall Street Journal profiles Teagle President Andrew Delbanco on why all students should have access to the humanities and his work with the Foundation to make this vision a reality. Read more > | 12/18/2020 12:00:00 AM |
12.10.2020 | Staff WritingsThe Song of SirensTeagle Program Director Tamara Mann Tweel writes about giving birth in the height of a pandemic. Read more > | 12/10/2020 12:00:00 AM |
12.09.2020 | Staff WritingsWhen Polling Fails, Read a BookTransformative texts offer us a way to confront the mystery of the human condition and, in our current context, what we don’t understand about American politics, writes Tamara Mann Tweel. Read more > | 12/9/2020 12:00:00 AM |
11.25.2020 | Teagle in the News The Poseidon Adventure: Leadership Lessons from the GodsRead more > | 11/25/2020 12:00:00 AM |
11.20.2020 | Teagle in the NewsCan We Pull Colleges Back to Wisdom?University of Dallas President Thomas S. Hibbs cites Cornerstone as a model for college curriculum for knowledge and civic engagement.
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11.16.2020 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to Support College StudentsThe Teagle Foundation is partnering with the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to address obstacles students face when transferring from two-year community colleges to four-year independent colleges.
Read more > | 11/16/2020 12:00:00 AM |
11.12.2020 | Press ReleaseTeagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Partner to Strengthen Transfer PathwaysThe Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations are partnering to address the academic obstacles that community college students face when trying to transfer to independent four-year colleges. Read more > | 11/12/2020 12:00:00 AM |
11.10.2020 | Teagle in the NewsHumanities for Everyone: A PlanTeagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco and National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Parrish Peede discuss Cornerstone: Learning for Living, the Foundation’s partnership with the NEH to reinvigorate the role of the humanities in general education.
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11.06.2020 | Teagle in the NewsBook Club Helps Seniors ConnectThis news spot covers Books@Work's pilot program of a book club for seniors in Cleveland who are homebound during COVID-19. Read more > | 11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM |
10.30.2020 | Teagle in the NewsTalking to Your Children About PoliticsCNN Interviews Tamara Mann Tweel on how to talk to children about fraught politics. Read more > | 10/30/2020 12:00:00 AM |
10.22.2020 | Teagle in the NewsHow to Reopen the American MindIn an essay on the place of the humanities in our broader culture, the authors reflect on how humanistic education is thriving beyond the academy and cites Teagle grantee Books@Work as an example. Read more > | 10/22/2020 12:00:00 AM |
10.22.2020 | Teagle in the NewsMartin Amis is Committed to the Pleasure Principle in Books Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco’s book The War Before the War is mentioned by Martin Amis in an interview with The New York Times. Read more > | 10/22/2020 12:00:00 AM |
10.21.2020 | Staff WritingsCivic Education After RuptureIn a time when students are experiencing civic loss or rupture, Tamara Mann Tweel reflects on the value of teaching for belonging. Read more > | 10/21/2020 12:00:00 AM |
10.09.2020 | Teagle in the NewsStrapped for Students, Colleges Finally Begin to Clear Transfer LogjamThis article in The Washington Post cites the innovative Connecticut Independent College Transfer Guarantee, spearheaded by the New England Board of Higher Education with support from a Teagle grant awarded in 2019.
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10.09.2020 | Teagle in the NewsStrapped for Students, Colleges Finally Begin to Clear Transfer Logjam This article in The Hechinger Report cites the innovative Connecticut Independent College Transfer Guarantee, spearheaded by the New England Board of Higher Education with support from a Teagle grant awarded in 2019.
Read more > | 10/9/2020 12:00:00 AM |
10.05.2020 | Teagle in the NewsNational Humanities Alliance WebinarIn a webinar sponsored by the National Humanities Alliance, Paula Krebs, executive director of the Modern Language Association, speaks to the Cornerstone model (minute 46:00). Read more > | 10/5/2020 12:00:00 AM |
09.30.2020 | Teagle in the NewsNeeded: A New Rehearsal Space for DemocracyTeagle President Andrew Delbanco and National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Parrish Peede describe how the Cornerstone model reimagines general education. Read more > | 9/30/2020 12:00:00 AM |
09.26.2020 | Teagle in the NewsNEH, Teagle Foundation Launch $7 Million Humanities InitiativePhilanthropy News Digest covered the news about the joint partnership between the Teagle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities launched in fall 2020 to revitalize the role of the humanities in general education. Read more > | 9/26/2020 12:00:00 AM |
09.25.2020 | Teagle in the NewsHow COVID Could Impact Transfer StudentsThis article cites Teagle grantee North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities as a model for transfer to independent colleges.
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09.24.2020 | Teagle in the NewsGrants Aim to "Reinvigorate the Humanities" by Connecting Them to Career GoalsMike Scutari of Inside Philanthropy interviews Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco on the urgent need for the Cornerstone:Learning for Living initiative. Read more > | 9/24/2020 12:00:00 AM |
09.24.2020 | Teagle in the NewsCornerstone: Learning for Living featured in Teaching NewsletterThe Chronicle of Higher Education featured the Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant program in its Teaching Newsletter. Read more > | 9/24/2020 12:00:00 AM |
09.23.2020 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Foundation Partners with the National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe Teagle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are partnering to jointly sponsor Cornerstone: Learning for Living, a grant program to reinvigorate the role of the humanities in general education. Read more > | 9/23/2020 12:00:00 AM |
08.28.2020 | Teagle in the NewsIUP Professor Named Grant RecipientThe Indiana Gazette reports that Indiana University of Pennsylvania is laying the groundwork for the "Big Ideas: The Humanities and the Professions" program, a certificate in the humanities designed especially for pre-professional and STEM students. The Teagle Foundation made a grant to support this work in 2020. Read more > | 8/28/2020 12:00:00 AM |
08.07.2020 | Staff WritingsTransfer Access to the Liberal ArtsSmall liberal arts colleges have a crucial opportunity to engage actively with community colleges for the benefit of both students and themselves, write Loni Bordoloi Pazich of the Teagle Foundation and Meagan Wilson of Ithaka S+R. Read more > | 8/7/2020 12:00:00 AM |
07.27.2020 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Foundation Commits over $525,000 in Community Recovery GrantsThe Teagle Foundation's Board of Directors has awarded special grants totaling $529,250 in a series of Community Recovery grants. Read more > | 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM |
07.23.2020 | Teagle in the NewsEncouraging Collaboration and InclusionRead more > | 7/23/2020 12:00:00 AM |
07.12.2020 | Teagle in the NewsThe Case for Using Literature to Kickstart Conversations about Race at WorkThis article profiles Books@Work and its programming to use discussions about literature as a way to broach conversations about race in the workplace. Read more > | 7/12/2020 12:00:00 AM |
07.12.2020 | Staff WritingsUniversities must offer more than 'Zoom from your room'In this article published in the Financial Times, Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco reflects on how the pandemic will have a differential impact on elite and non-elite institutions and how the “involuntary experiment” to dramatically improve online learning may yield some lasting benefit for all students. If such broad-based benefits are not realized, “the pandemic will have been an inconvenience for the privileged and a disaster for everyone else.” Read more > | 7/12/2020 12:00:00 AM |
07.02.2020 | Teagle in the NewsWhat is College Worth?In this article from The New York Review of Books, Jonathan Zimmerman details how despite being "once imagined as an engine of mobility, college now augments inequality" among students of different socioeconomic backgrounds. Zimmerman cites Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco, author of College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, as an example of a college educator who took responsibility for learning about the needs of students who are otherwise overlooked. Read more > | 7/2/2020 12:00:00 AM |
06.23.2020 | Teagle in the NewsThe General Education Curriculum We NeedSteven Mintz highlights the Teagle-funded Cornerstone program at Purdue University as an example of what a holistic general eduction program can achieve. Read more > | 6/23/2020 12:00:00 AM |
06.12.2020 | Staff WritingsMessage from President Andrew Delbanco on the Imperative of Racial JusticeRead more > | 6/12/2020 12:00:00 AM |
06.04.2020 | Teagle in the NewsThe End of College as We Knew It?In this article New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has put liberal arts education, particularly the humanities, in jeopardy. Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco and board member Brian Rosenberg are quoted on how the pandemic is not only a health and safety crisis, but also a values crisis, and a liberal arts education provides the necessary grounding to navigate these multi-pronged threats. Bruni highlights the Teagle-funded Cornerstone program at Purdue University as an example of what more colleges need to be doing to prepare as many “broadly educated, deeply reflective citizens and leaders as possible.” He also mentions Teagle grantees LaGuardia Community College and Ursinus College in his column as additional examples of how colleges across the country are recommitting to the liberal arts as part of their response to the pandemic. Read more > | 6/4/2020 12:00:00 AM |
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04.01.2020 | Teagle in the NewsThe Pandemic’s Most Powerful Writer Is a SurgeonTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco was quoted again in the Wall Street Journal about writings during the pandemic by Dr. Craig Smith, the renowned chief of surgery at Columbia University. Read more > | 4/1/2020 12:00:00 AM |
03.24.2020 | Staff WritingsMessage from President Andrew Delbanco in response to the COVID-19 PandemicRead more > | 3/24/2020 12:00:00 AM |
03.13.2020 | Teagle in the NewsGetting Online: Lessons from Liberal Arts CollegesThis article by Ithaka S+R offers guidance to residential institutions on the transition to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The article cites transferable lessons from an evaluation of Teagle’s Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience, which supported online module development and course-sharing. Read more > | 3/13/2020 12:00:00 AM |
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03.06.2020 | Teagle in the NewsThe Case for Reading FictionBooks@Work is featured in this article about the benefits to workplaces of employees reading fiction. Read more > | 3/6/2020 12:00:00 AM |
03.05.2020 | Teagle in the NewsNo Place to Hide: Colleges Track Students, EverywhereTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco was quoted in the Wall Street Journal about the increasingly common practice of tracking students on college campuses. The tracking is intended to help keep students safe, engaged and moving efficiently toward graduation but raises concerns about privacy and diminishing students’ sense of self-efficacy. Read more > | 3/5/2020 12:00:00 AM |
02.11.2020 | Teagle in the NewsWithin NYC’s Highly Segregated School System, a Group of Low-Income Students Sacrifice Their SummersNon-profit media outlet The 74 describes the Teagle-funded partnership between Scholars for Educational Opportunity (SEO) and Skidmore College and its impact on the lives and aspirations of low-income high school students. Read more > | 2/11/2020 12:00:00 AM |
02.07.2020 | Teagle in the NewsSome Colleges Start to Confront a Surprising Reason Students Fail: Too Many ChoicesIn 2016, the Teagle Foundation made a grant co-funded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, College Futures Foundation, and James Irvine Foundation to pilot guided pathways at 20 California community colleges. This article in Hechinger Report cites improvements in student outcomes at Cosumnes River College, one of the colleges that participated in the Teagle co-funded pilot, that results from its participation in the guided pathways work. Read more > | 2/7/2020 12:00:00 AM |
01.28.2020 | Teagle in the NewsEcon Extra Credit with David BrancaccioJournalist David Brancaccio of the public radio show Marketplace is leading a reading group that will delve into Teagle grantee CORE's free, online economics textbook that emphasizes empirical research, historical context, and the use of hands-on data. Read more > | 1/28/2020 12:00:00 AM |
01.16.2020 | Teagle in the NewsA Doubtful FreedomTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's latest book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, was reviewed by historian David W. Blight in The New York Review of Books. Read more > | 1/16/2020 12:00:00 AM |
12.09.2019 | Teagle in the NewsGiant Leaps for the Liberal Arts at PurdueThis article in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning by Teagle grantee Melinda Zook highlights how the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University took bold measures to reverse the tide of dramatic enrollment declines with the Cornerstone program. Read more > | 12/9/2019 12:00:00 AM |
12.02.2019 | Teagle in the News100 Notable Books of 2019Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's newest book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, was featured on The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2019 list.
Read more > | 12/2/2019 12:00:00 AM |
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11.10.2019 | Teagle in the NewsA Modern Great Books Solution to the Humanities’ Enrollment WoesThis article from The Chronicle of Higher Education showcases the background, results, and future of Purdue University's Cornerstone program. Read more > | 11/10/2019 12:00:00 AM |
11.04.2019 | Teagle in the NewsCan You Get Students Interested in the Humanities Again? These Colleges May Have It Figured OutThis article highlights how Purdue's Cornerstone program has helped revive liberal arts enrollment at a STEM-oriented university. Read more > | 11/4/2019 12:00:00 AM |
10.18.2019 | Teagle in the NewsShakespeare on the Shop Floor: Literature at Work and in the CommunityAnn Kowal Smith expands on a panel session about demonstrating the value of the humanities outside of academia. Read more > | 10/18/2019 12:00:00 AM |
10.10.2019 | Teagle in the NewsWhere 4-Year Schools Find a Pool of Applicants: 2-Year SchoolsThis New York Times article highlights the New England Board of Higher Education's efforts to create transfer pipelines for community college students to enroll at independent four-year colleges after earning associate's degrees in the liberal arts.
Read more > | 10/10/2019 12:00:00 AM |
10.08.2019 | Teagle in the NewsFoundation President and Historian Wants to Make the Humanities AccessibleIn this article, Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco discusses his goals to engage students in the humanities.
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10.05.2019 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation Forum Explores What Liberal Arts Can Offer Underrepresented StudentsAt a recent forum marking the Teagle Foundation's 75th anniversary, humanities faculty explored what their disciplines offer underrepresented students - and whether liberal arts schools are the institutions best serving them. Read more > | 10/5/2019 12:00:00 AM |
09.26.2019 | Teagle in the NewsA Liberal Arts Approach to Design ThinkingTeagle grantee Jeffrey Nesteruk discusses a liberal arts approach to design thinking at Franklin & Marshall College. Read more > | 9/26/2019 12:00:00 AM |
09.22.2019 | Teagle in the NewsHow an Idiosyncratic Role-Playing Game Became a Popular Teaching ToolThis article highlights Reacting to the Past, an innovative game-based approach to teaching history and other disciplines. This initiative, which began a Barnard College, now has a presence on more than 500 college campuses. Read more > | 9/22/2019 12:00:00 AM |
09.21.2019 | Teagle in the NewsCloser Reading: Teaching Fiction at WorkLaura Baudot discusses her experience teaching with Books@Work. Read more > | 9/21/2019 12:00:00 AM |
08.30.2019 | Teagle in the NewsWords to Live (and Work) by: Fairbanks Morse Books@Work ProgramFairbanks Morse strives to offer employees opportunities to build interpersonal relationships and develop a sense of community outside of their daily routines. The Books@Work program has been growing in popularity amongst employees at Fairbanks Morse. Read more > | 8/30/2019 12:00:00 AM |
08.29.2019 | Teagle in the NewsAlexandra Logue, Graduate Center of the City University of New York – Remedial MathMath could be what determines whether you graduate from college. Alexandra Logue, research professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, examines why in this interview. Read more > | 8/29/2019 12:00:00 AM |
06.05.2019 | Teagle in the NewsFormerly Homeless High School Senior Gets into 12 UniversitiesA formerly homeless teen, spent three years attending the Fresh Air Fund’s College Connections Program, a mentoring program that helps high school students choose, enroll in, and prepare for college. Read more > | 6/5/2019 12:00:00 AM |
05.28.2019 | Teagle in the NewsHope for Faculty Off the Tenure Track?Teagle grantee Adrianna Kezar describes the efforts of the Delphi Project for the Changing Faculty and Student Success to bring attention to innovative ways institutions can support non-tenure-track faculty members. Read more > | 5/28/2019 12:00:00 AM |
05.22.2019 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation Awards $1.2 Million for Liberal Arts InitiativesThe Teagle Foundation has announced grants totaling nearly $1.3 million in support of liberal arts programs nationwide through two recently launched initiatives. Read more > | 5/22/2019 12:00:00 AM |
05.20.2019 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Foundation Makes Over $1.2M in New GrantsThe Teagle Foundation's Board of Diretors awarded grants totaling $1.295 million through its newly launched initiatives, Pathways to the Liberal Arts and Education for American Civil Life. Read more > | 5/20/2019 12:00:00 AM |
05.13.2019 | Staff WritingsThe Exquisite Challenge of CareTeagle Program Director Tamara Mann Tweel reflects on what Ruth can teach us about care for our elders. Read more > | 5/13/2019 12:00:00 AM |
04.22.2019 | Teagle in the NewsAndrew Delbanco is a winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies and Teagle Foundation president, has been awarded the 44th annual Lionel Trilling Book Award for his book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. Read more > | 4/22/2019 12:00:00 AM |
04.18.2019 | Teagle in the NewsThe Future of Gen EdA recent conference organized by Inside Higher Ed featured Teagle grantees Melinda Zook of Purdue University and Richard Detweiler of Great Lakes Colleges Association as speakers. Zook described the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts, a 15-credit certificate designed to provide pre-professional students a coherent sequence of liberal arts courses aligned with their majors and interests. Detweiler presented findings from a study on the long-term impact of liberal arts education in the decades following college graduation. Read more > | 4/18/2019 12:00:00 AM |
04.11.2019 | Teagle in the NewsHow Well Do Elite Colleges Contribute to the Public Good?Teagle grantee Howard Gardner of Harvard University receives attention for his research on exemplary programs to strengthen undergraduate education. Read more > | 4/11/2019 12:00:00 AM |
04.04.2019 | Teagle in the News2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's latest book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, was recently recognized with the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction. As announced by the Cleveland Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf is “the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity.” Read more > | 4/4/2019 12:00:00 AM |
03.21.2019 | Teagle in the NewsTeaching at ScaleThis essay cites Reacting to the Past, an innovative game-based approach to teaching history and other disciplines, as an example of how faculty can teach highly engaging courses to hundreds of students in a cost-effective manner Read more > | 3/21/2019 12:00:00 AM |
03.20.2019 | Teagle in the NewsAnnouncing the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and FinalistsTeagle Foundation president, Andrew Delbanco, has been awarded the 2019 Lukas Prize by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Read more > | 3/20/2019 12:00:00 AM |
03.20.2019 | Teagle in the NewsNE Board of Higher Education Launches Initiative for Independent College TransferLocal press covered news of the New England Board of Higher Education’s efforts to establish a transfer guarantee for eligible community college students interested in completing their baccalaureate degrees at independent four-year colleges. Read more > | 3/20/2019 12:00:00 AM |
03.18.2019 | Teagle in the NewsHow Academic Institutions Are Reducing Expenses With Cross-Institution CollaborationStrategies documented in the evaluation of the Hybrid Learning initiative are cited in this essay as examples of ways to reduce the cost of a college education while maintaining a commitment to excellence. Read more > | 3/18/2019 12:00:00 AM |
03.12.2019 | Teagle in the NewsHarvard's Econ 101 Class Will Never Be the SameThis column describes the efforts of Teagle grantee CORE (Curriculum Open-Access Resources for Economics) to teach economics in a manner that emphasizes empirical research and the use of hands-on data with a free electronic textbook and related online teaching resources.
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03.08.2019 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation Awards $3 Million to Bolster Liberal Arts EducationThe Teagle Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $3 million to bolster liberal arts programs across the country. Read more > | 3/8/2019 12:00:00 AM |
02.26.2019 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Foundation Welcomes New Director Alondra Nelson and Makes Over $3M in New GrantsAlondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council and professor of sociology at Columbia University, was elected as a director of the Teagle Foundation on February 22. At the same meeting, the Foundation’s Board of Directors awarded grants totaling over $3 million through its newly launched initiative Pathways to the Liberal Arts as well as its ongoing initiatives Liberal Arts and the Professions and College-Community Connections.
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02.25.2019 | Teagle in the NewsAn Agenda for ModeratesTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's 1999 book, The Real American Dream, is highlighted in this New York Times column by David Brooks. Read more > | 2/25/2019 12:00:00 AM |
01.25.2019 | Teagle in the NewsBy Any Other NameLiberal education advocates discuss ways to "reclaim" conversations about academe -- in part by not using the term "liberal arts."
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01.24.2019 | Teagle in the NewsTeaching an Ivy League Curriculum at a Community CollegeHostos Community College has experienced great success in adopting Columbia University’s core text curriculum for its required composition course. They are currently laying the groundwork to expand the approach at their own institution and to other community colleges in the City University of New York system. Read more > | 1/24/2019 12:00:00 AM |
01.17.2019 | Staff WritingsA Great American HaterAndrew Delbanco discusses the life and times of John Quincy Adams, as revealed by his Diaries, 1799-1821 and Diaries, 1821-1848. Read more > | 1/17/2019 12:00:00 AM |
01.15.2019 | Staff WritingsThe War Before the WarAndrew Delbanco, Teagle Foundation president and American studies professor at Columbia University, recounts the political and moral divisions that separated the United States in the lead-up to the Civil War.
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01.14.2019 | Teagle in the NewsHow To Use Stories To Transform RelationshipsRead more > | 1/14/2019 12:00:00 AM |
01.04.2019 | Staff WritingsFugitive Slaves and the Road to the Civil WarTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco was a guest on a podcast for The New York Times’ Book Review to discuss his latest book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.
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01.03.2019 | Teagle in the NewsHow One College Made Its Gen-Ed Program Feel More RelevantShenandoah University was in the midst of revising its general-education curriculum about four years ago when Amy Sarch, an associate provost there, heard about an unusual program on the other side of the country.
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01.02.2019 | Teagle in the NewsSF State Smoothes the Path to GraduationSan Francisco State University (SFSU) describes successful curricular reforms that were enacted as a result of a Teagle grant made in 2014 to streamline upper division coursework in the major and improve time to graduation. Read more > | 1/2/2019 12:00:00 AM |
12.16.2018 | Teagle in the NewsFor Staff and Adjuncts, a Shot at TenureIn order to recognize institutions taking positive steps to better support contingent faculty – and to encourage their peers to do the same – Teagle underwrote an award program run by the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education and the Association of American Colleges and Universities with a grant made in 2017. The article describes the changes to policy and practice implemented by the first two awardees, Harper College (a two-year community college in Illinois) and California State University-Dominguez Hills.
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12.06.2018 | Teagle in the NewsDiversity in Higher Ed: How One Organization is Getting More Diverse Students on CampusIn this podcast (30:35 minutes), the executive director and a student participant in Leadership for a Diverse America (LEDA) describe how the program has helped build a pathway for low-income high-achieving students into the country’s most selective colleges. Teagle has provided LEDA with multiple rounds of support, most recently in 2018.
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12.04.2018 | Teagle in the NewsTimes Critics’ Top Books of 2018The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year, including The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Teagle Foundation president, Andrew Delbanco.
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12.04.2018 | Teagle in the News'In Search of Curricular Coherence'Teagle’s external evaluation of Faculty Planning and Curricular Coherence by Madeleine Green received attention in the higher education press upon its release in early December.
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12.03.2018 | Staff WritingsDoing Philanthropy Together Learn about opportunitites and challenges of a collaborative funding model focused on increasing college graduation rates.
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11.28.2018 | Teagle in the NewsBattle Lines: Recovering the Profound Divisions that Led to the Civil WarGordon S. Wood of The New Republic reviews Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's new book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.
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11.26.2018 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Foundation Renews Support to a Funder Collaborative and Launches New InitiativesThe Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has renewed support to the College Completion Innovation Fund, a funder collaborative that will award grants to New York City community-based organizations and colleges and universities to address undergraduate transfer student success and to increase overall momentum and persistence to graduation.
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11.24.2018 | Teagle in the NewsThe Question Without a SolutionAlan Jacobs of The Weekly Standard reviews Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's new book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. Read more > | 11/24/2018 12:00:00 AM |
11.22.2018 | Teagle in the News‘No Property in Man’ and ‘The War Before the War’ Review: The Fuse the Founders LitTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's new book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, is highlighted in this feature by David S. Reynolds in The Wall Street Journal. Read more > | 11/22/2018 12:00:00 AM |
11.17.2018 | Staff WritingsLincoln and the Fugtive Slave ActTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco discusses Abraham Lincoln’s thoughts and writings on slavery, and described how the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act galvanized many northerners to become more active abolitionists.
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11.12.2018 | Staff WritingsAmerica’s Struggle for Moral CoherenceThe problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is what led to the Civil War. It hasn’t gone away.
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11.06.2018 | Teagle in the NewsHow the Fugitive Slave Act Ignited a "Struggle for America's Soul"Terry Gross interviews Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco on his new book, The War Before the War; Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, on NPR's Fresh Air. Read more > | 11/6/2018 12:00:00 AM |
11.03.2018 | Staff WritingsMigrant Slaves, Sanctuary Cities and the Coming of the Civil WarTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco engages in a Q/A about his new book The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.
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10.25.2018 | Staff WritingsA Den of Braggarts and BrawlersAndrew Delbanco reviews The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Yale historian Joanne Freeman.
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10.18.2018 | Teagle in the News‘The Metamorphosis’ and ‘How Social Isolation Is Killing Us’Read more > | 10/18/2018 12:00:00 AM |
10.01.2018 | Teagle in the NewsPurposeful Pathways: Faculty Planning for Curricular CoherencePurposeful Pathways: Faculty Planning for Curricular Coherence helps faculty create and assess curricular pathways that can guide students to higher levels of learning, intellectual skills development, and practical knowledge.
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10.01.2018 | Teagle in the NewsBringing the Core to High School StudentsWrestling with Hobbes and Locke might not be the average summer fare for most high school students, but for the past decade Columbia’s Freedom and Citizenship summer program has encouraged a small set of rising seniors to pursue an experience — and an education — outside the norm.
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10.01.2018 | Teagle in the NewsRedeeming the Liberal ArtsLeon Botstein, president of Bard College, describes the need for “early colleges” for high school students and lays out ways in which liberal arts education can be revitalized and strengthened. Bard College currently has a planning grant to improve transfer opportunities for high school students enrolled in the Bard Early Colleges Network so they make more rapid progress towards baccalaureate degrees in the liberal arts.
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10.01.2018 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsThe Rigidness of Academic RoutineDirector Brian Rosenberg's essay summarizes major challenges to liberal education. Read more > | 10/1/2018 12:00:00 AM |
09.26.2018 | Staff WritingsThe Power of Academic FriendshipIt is time to combine the best of business education with the well-documented benefits of a liberal arts education, argues Loni Bordoloi Pazich.
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09.20.2018 | Teagle in the NewsLiberal Arts Shouldn’t be an Afterthought at Large Research UniversitiesTeagle grantee, Purdue University, describes its unique Cornerstone Intergrated Liberal Arts program.
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09.18.2018 | Teagle in the News How Studying Business, Engineering in College Can Lead to JobsUndergraduate programs are pushing creativity and communication skills alongside technical abilities.
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09.12.2018 | Teagle in the NewsPBS NewsHour: To Narrow Toxic Divides, Students Build Bridges Between FaithsTeagle grantee, Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), is featured in this PBS NewsHour segment.
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09.06.2018 | Teagle in the NewsThe Grand Challenges Scholars Program: Integrating Liberal Arts and STEMRead about the Grand Challenges Scholars Program on the campuses of two Teagle grantees, Olin College and Lawrence Technology University.
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09.04.2018 | Teagle in the NewsEscaping WestworldIn the future, we won't be able to sidestep the ethical and policy issues linked to the use of technology, writes Lynn Pasquerella, so we must confront the question of how we best prepare students for it.
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08.29.2018 | Teagle in the NewsUMN Morris Offers Hands-on Course on Indigenous EducationThis summer University of Minnesota Morris professors co-taught a new course on indigenous education, past and present, in the United States and Canada.
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08.20.2018 | Teagle in the NewsResearch Backs California's Push to Reform Remedial Math EducationDrawing on her experiences within the City University of New York system, Teagle grantee Alexandra Logue offers insights into the impact of corequesite remediation in California.
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08.17.2018 | Staff WritingsHow to Get the Most Out of CollegeTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco is quoted in this essay by New York Times columnist Frank Bruni.
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08.01.2018 | Teagle in the NewsCleveland Police Event Uses Story to Spark Discussion between Officers and Community MembersThis news spot profiles the work of Books@Work in collaboration with Literacy in the Hood and the Cleveland Police Department to encourage conversations between police officers and local children. Read more > | 8/1/2018 12:00:00 AM |
08.01.2018 | Teagle in the NewsReading, Writing and Arguing: Can A Summer of Big Questions Push Students to College?High school students get a jump-start studying great books and philosophers through the Teagle-funded College-Community Connections program.
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07.23.2018 | Teagle in the NewsSetting A Foundation In The Classics For High School StudentsLearn more about the summer seminar for rising high school seniors, Freedom and Citizenship in Ancient, Modern and Contemporary Thought.
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07.23.2018 | Teagle in the NewsFrom the Battlefield to the Classroom: Program Helping Reintroduce Soldiers to CollegeSome soldiers are trading the battlefield for a college campus by enrolling in the Warrior-Scholar Project.
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07.20.2018 | Teagle in the NewsBringing People Together With Books, In Cleveland And BeyondA novel idea that started in Cleveland to bringing people together through book clubs. It’s gone global.
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07.18.2018 | Teagle in the NewsU of A Hosting Warrior Scholar Project for VeteransFrom the battlefield to the classroom, many may think service members wouldn't have any trouble with the transition, but a lot of them do. That's why many of them heading to the University of Arizona, are now going through a different kind of boot camp to get ready.
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07.17.2018 | Teagle in the News The Extensive Evidence of Co-Requisite Remediation's EffectivenessStudy after study has shown higher course pass rates than in traditional remedial courses, writes Alexandra W. Logue, so why doesn't everybody know about it?
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07.15.2018 | Teagle in the NewsBootcamp Helps Vets Transition to College LifeA two-week program exclusively for veterans and active-duty military members has returned for its second year on the University of Arizona campus to help transition vets into college life.
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07.11.2018 | Teagle in the NewsHow College Courses on Happiness and Humiliation Became the Hottest Trend on CampusTeagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco is quoted on trendy themes among college course offerings.
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07.10.2018 | Teagle in the NewsMilitary, Veterans Study at HarvardWarrior-Scholar Project aims to ease veterans' transition to college life.
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07.09.2018 | Teagle in the NewsAcademic "Boot" CampThrough the Warrior-Scholar Project, college-bound military personnel completed a weeklong academic “military to college” course at Penn.
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07.09.2018 | Teagle in the NewsCleveland Uses Literature to Empower Youth, Overcome Social DividesBy welcoming and engaging its citizens from all corners through literature, Cleveland is spawning discussions that could help it tackle tough social issues from homelessness to substance abuse.
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07.06.2018 | Teagle in the NewsOne College Is Doing a Lot to Solve Mass-Incarceration ProblemIn this "Letter to the Editor," Teagle grantee John Jay College of Criminal Justice describes several of its ongoing initiatives, including the Prison-to-College Pipeline re-entry program.
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06.20.2018 | Teagle in the NewsBack-to-School Boot Camp: Texas A&M Again Hosting Program to Prepare Veterans for College LifeGoing straight from battlefields and barracks to a college classroom isn't always a smooth transition. The Warrior-Scholar Project uses a boot-camp strategy to help vets get adjusted to college life.
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06.19.2018 | Teagle in the NewsPrinceton University Helps Military Vets Adjust To College LifeAn intensive two-week program held at Princeton University is designed to help military veterans make the transition from the military to higher education.
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06.11.2018 | Teagle in the NewsWhat’s Discovered When Disciplines Learn from Each OtherJeffrey Nesteruk, Teagle grantee and Franklin & Marshall professor of Legal Studies, is a featured blog contributor to the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program.
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06.07.2018 | Staff WritingsReimagining the Liberal ArtsThe liberal arts can help students prepare for the complexities of the modern workplace, including those related to religious diversity.
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06.05.2018 | Teagle in the News‘Making Sense of the College Curriculum’Authors discuss new book examining the faculty role -- and how professors view their responsibilities.
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06.03.2018 | Teagle in the NewsDo Unions Help Adjuncts?The proportion of faculty off the tenure track has been rising for nearly half a century. This article reviews examples of the impact of collective bargaining agreements.
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05.24.2018 | Staff WritingsPhilanthropy and the Interfaith ImperativeInterfaith Youth Core and the Teagle Foundation have established a partnership with faculty from across higher education that seeks to incorporate interfaith perspectives into the curriculum as it also engages students of different religious backgrounds in common projects.
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05.21.2018 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Foundation Announces $300K in New GrantsThe Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has approved over $300,000 in support of its ongoing initiatives to advance teaching and learning of liberal arts education.
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05.10.2018 | Teagle in the NewsLiterature Changing Lives: Books@Work Helps Local Veterans Start A New ChapterBooks@Work has launched a special community-based program for veterans.
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05.09.2018 | Teagle in the NewsCollaboration on Documentary Storymaking Minor - A Model of Digital InnovationTeagle grantees Muhlenberg and Lafayette Colleges and Lehigh University have developed a joint documentary studies minor through the Hybrid Learning and Liberal Arts initiative.
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04.26.2018 | Staff WritingsA Natural Attraction?Essay on "erotics of mentorship" sets off debate about whether sexuality has any place in academic relationships. Teagle President Judith Shapiro was invited to comment on the matter in this article.
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04.16.2018 | Teagle in the NewsGeorge Anders, Editor at Large at LinkedIn, Reflects on Liberal Arts and the ProfessionsGeorge Anders shares reflections on his recent participation in Teagle's convening of Liberal Arts and the Professions.
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04.05.2018 | Teagle in the NewsPeople: CEO Exits Council on Foundations, New Leaders Join Teagle and SunTrust FundsAndrew Delbanco, a professor of American studies at Columbia University since 1985, has been selected as president of the Teagle Foundation. He will take over in July, succeeding Judith Shapiro, who is retiring.
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03.27.2018 | Teagle in the NewsInvisible No More: How Advising Programs Are Finding New Talent for Top CollegesTeagle grantee Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America is featured for its advising work with high-achieving, low-income students in this Washington Post article.
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03.27.2018 | Teagle in the NewsFourteen of 15 into Stanford Early: Eye-popping Admission Stats for Low-income Advising Program Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America's impact on admissions among high-achieving, low-income students includes 14 of 15 applicants accepted to Stanford.
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03.21.2018 | Teagle in the NewsThe Teagle Foundation Announces Andrew Delbanco As Its New President The board of directors of the Teagle Foundation has voted unanimously to name Andrew Delbanco as president of the foundation to succeed Judith R. Shapiro beginning July 2018.
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03.21.2018 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation Names Delbanco Next PresidentThe Teagle Foundation is announcing today that its next president will be Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.
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03.21.2018 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation’s New President: Private Universities Have Public ResponsibilitiesAndrew Delbanco has been a professor of American studies at Columbia University for more than three decades. In that time he’s won teaching awards and written about higher education. In July he’ll take over from Judith Shapiro as president of the Teagle Foundation.
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03.11.2018 | Teagle in the NewsCan a Signature Program Save Your College?Leaders of small institutions hope distinctive academic programs can stanch declines in enrollments and rates of retention and graduation.
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03.07.2018 | Teagle in the NewsBook Club, in the OfficeTeagle grantee Books@Work brings literature discussions led by professors to the workplace.
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03.05.2018 | Staff WritingsThe Abominable White DNA SnowmanTeagle Foundation President Judith Shapiro reflects on the upsides and downsides of the current vogue of looking up one's DNA to find out who one "really is."
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02.28.2018 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Foundation Continues Support of College Access for NYC Youth & Ongoing Initiatives to AdvThe Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has awarded $675,000 in continued support to NYC-area community-based organizations as well as to its ongoing efforts to promote teaching and learning in the liberal arts.
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02.22.2018 | Teagle in the NewsShared Photo Exhibit Brings College Museums Together"This Place," an exhibition of photos taken by photographers visiting Israel and the West Bank between 2009 and 2012, has been shared through a cooperative arrangement with Hamilton College, Colgate University, Skidmore College, and SUNY Albany. It is part of a three-year grant to help the colleges’ teaching museums learn from each other.
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01.29.2018 | Teagle in the NewsIf You Build It, They May Not ComeInitiative to encourage liberal arts colleges to create online courses gets positive reviews from faculty members, but students may not be convinced.
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01.25.2018 | Staff WritingsSeeing Is Believing…and UnderstandingTeagle Foundation Program Officer Desiree Vazquez Barlatt reflects on the transformative impact of a recent site visit.
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01.14.2018 | Teagle in the NewsRelationships Are Central to the Student Experience. Can Colleges Engineer Them?Having a mentor can help students academically, and is even linked to their later well-being. Such connections can’t be forced — but they can be encouraged.
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01.11.2018 | Teagle in the NewsYale Professor Discusses Warrior-Scholar Project on Fox & FriendsTeagle grantee, Warrior-Scholar Project, was featured on Fox & Friends.
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12.21.2017 | Teagle in the NewsHow Spaces Designed for Learning Can Change TeachingTeagle grantee Austin Community College transformed a mandated course into a "rich, commonly shared academic experience of discussion-based liberal-arts seminars." Read more > | 12/21/2017 12:00:00 AM |
12.06.2017 | Staff WritingsFree Speech and Quality SpeechIs there a different way of thinking, Judith Shapiro asks, about significant speech events on campuses?
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12.05.2017 | Teagle in the NewsThe Subtle Surprises of Academic FriendshipsPersonal relationships can provide untapped creative spaces for boundary-spanning work, writes Jeffrey Nesteruk, and the silos we most need to overcome might be ourselves.
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11.27.2017 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Foundation Continues Advocacy of Liberal Arts Education In and Out of the AcademyThe Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has awarded three grants to ongoing initiatives and special projects that promote liberal arts teaching and learning.
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10.30.2017 | Teagle in the NewsSecond Chances: The Funders Bringing College into PrisonsA small but steadily growing prison education program continues to expand with the help of some big foundations.
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10.20.2017 | Teagle in the NewsAt Otisville, the Prison-to-College Pipeline is Expanding Educational Opportunity for Students Both The Teagle Foundation supports the Prison-to-College-Pipeline, an initiative of the Prisoner Reentry Institute of John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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10.02.2017 | Teagle in the NewsNeed help with financial aid forms? These groups are here to help.Through its Better Make Room campaign, Reach Higher is using social media platforms such as Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram to walk students through the financial aid and college application processes.
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10.01.2017 | Teagle in the NewsDemocracy’s DisappearanceOur students don’t understand what it is, so how will they defend it?
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09.21.2017 | Teagle in the NewsThe Teaching of Economics Gets an Overdue OverhaulThe CORE project knits contributions from economists around the world into a text that is free, online and offers interactive charts and videos of star economists.
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09.20.2017 | Teagle in the NewsHow to Save the Humanities? Make Them a Requirement Toward a Business DegreeOne Canadian university sets out to prove the value of the humanities in lucrative careers.
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09.20.2017 | Teagle in the NewsFrom Inmates to Graduates: The Prison-to-College PipelineInside the NYC-based program that gives the incarcerated a second chance.
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09.18.2017 | Staff WritingsA Call for Curricular CoherenceProliferating course offerings can overwhelm and confuse students and make a college education seem like a box-checking exercise rather than a cohesive and comprehensive intellectual endeavor, argues Loni Bordoloi Pazich.
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09.18.2017 | Teagle in the News300,000 Women Are Missing From EconomicsThe CORE project – an online introduction to economics – offers new content for first year economics courses. As well as economic theory, it is problem-centered and more interdisciplinary.
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09.11.2017 | Teagle in the NewsA New Way to Learn EconomicsA group of economists from both sides of the Atlantic, part of a project called CORE Econ, has put together a new introductory economics curriculum, one that is modern, comprehensive, and freely available online.
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09.09.2017 | Teagle in the NewsQ&A: Ann Kowal Smith, Executive Director, Books@WorkBooks@Work, a nonprofit that offers professor-led literature seminars for the workplace, has delivered programs in 17 states and five foreign countries.
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09.06.2017 | Teagle in the NewsTexas Community Colleges Launch Student Success InitiativeThe Texas Success Center, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates, Greater Texas, T.L.L. Temple, and Teagle foundations, has announced the launch of a 5-year, multimillion-dollar effort to implement student-focused reforms in the state's 50 community college districts.
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09.01.2017 | Teagle in the NewsTown Halls and Great Debates at Shenandoah and Tarleton StateShenandoah University introduced an interdisciplinary town hall program that brings students, faculty, and community consultants from general education courses together to create action plans related to polarizing contemporary issues like immigration, racial inequality, or homelessness.
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09.01.2017 | Teagle in the News2-Year Colleges in Texas Launch Guided PathwaysThe Texas Association of Community Colleges announced a new partnership Thursday to expand guided-pathway reforms to all 50 community college districts in the state.
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08.15.2017 | Teagle in the NewsWarrior Scholar Project Helps Veterans Prepare for College LifeThe Warrior Scholar Project prepares veterans to go back to school. Programs in Massachusetts, Michigan and Texas were the last of more than a dozen that took place this summer.
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08.11.2017 | Teagle in the NewsMIT Hosts STEM Boot Camp for Veteran StudentsWarrior-Scholar Project helps veterans transition to college with intensive summer programming.
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08.01.2017 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsLiberal Education Up North: Canada’s Way2017 marks Canada’s 150th birthday. In hono[u]r of friendly neighbor[u]rs in the North, let’s talk about liberal education in Canada.
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06.30.2017 | Teagle in the NewsWarrior-Scholar Project Helping Build the Leaders of TomorrowAs a teenager, James Goins left civilian life to enter the Air Force, in a decision that meant forgoing attending college. But as he prepares to leave the military next year, he has his mind set on getting into the Ivy League.
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06.28.2017 | Teagle in the NewsWarrior-Scholar Project to Host Boot Camp for VeteransThe Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP) hosted an academic boot camp at the University of Chicago from June 25 to July 1. The goals of the boot camps are to help veterans discover, or rediscover, the skills needed to complete four-year undergraduate degrees and help them successfully transition from the military to college.
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06.08.2017 | Teagle in the NewsWarrior-Scholar Project Introduces Veterans to College Life at Notre Dame The summer is a popular time to visit college campuses. For a group of veterans, they are getting an entire week in the life of a Notre Dame student. The program helps the veterans transition to college life.
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06.07.2017 | Teagle in the NewsBook Club Silo Buster: CEO, Factory Crew Meet to Eat and ReadBooks@Work, a national program founded in 2012, organizes on-the-job book discussions facilitated by college professors. It draw participants from all corners of a company. Since it began, 3,400 people have participated in 180 Books@Work programs in 42 organizations in 16 states and four foreign countries.
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06.05.2017 | Press ReleaseThe Foundation Promotes Liberal Arts Across Colleges and Non-Profits with Nearly $2M in New GrantsThe Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has approved nearly $2M in support of ongoing initiatives and special projects to promote teaching and learning of liberal arts education.
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06.01.2017 | Teagle in the NewsCalifornia Community Colleges Try to Boost Graduation Rates The California community college system is moving to an approach known as “guided pathways." The idea is to help students choose a course of study earlier, then give them a clear road map to get to their goal.
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06.01.2017 | Teagle in the NewsFree Speech on College CampusesPresident Judith Shapiro participated as a panelist at the 2017 Education Writers Association's National Seminar, a conference of education journalists.
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05.31.2017 | Teagle in the NewsEntrepreneurs Who Want to Dance: The Liberal Arts Approach to BusinessThe liberal arts approach can lead to business being done more thoughtfully, more creatively, and more sustainably, says Professor Jeffrey Nesteruk of Franklin and Marshall College.
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05.18.2017 | Teagle in the NewsColumbia Doctoral Students Travel to Princeton for Ivy+ Teaching Development SummitGraduate students at three Ivy Plus institutions were brought together by directors of centers for teaching and learning at their respective institutions to discuss teaching development and practices.
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05.17.2017 | Teagle in the NewsDo Your Students Learn by Rote? Or Can They Recognize Patterns?A tool developed by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis shows whether chemistry students tend to extrapolate from concepts or rely on memorization. The difference can predict how well they fare academically.
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05.02.2017 | Teagle in the NewsCollege Business Programs Look to the Liberal Arts ModelA few dozen professors are packed into a lecture hall at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They convened from schools across the country to discuss how to bring the critical thinking and creativity associated with the liberal arts into business programs.
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05.01.2017 | Teagle in the NewsWhy You Should Care About Remedial MathIf you are a faculty member who is not in math, know that what's happening in many math departments can be directly hurting your own department and possibly your teaching preferences -- as well as the students themselves, writes Teagle grantee Alexandra W. Logue.
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04.03.2017 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsAdvancing Liberal Education in 2017Bethany Zecher Sutton, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, shares reflections from Teagle-supported initiatives, which point to the valuable role of faculty and the tremendous opportunity that faculty leadership provides to strengthen liberal education.
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04.03.2017 | Teagle in the NewsDemocratizing the Great BooksAt a time when many of the values that underpin our democracy are under threat, educators of whatever political disposition should introduce students to the history of ideas that have shaped our contemporary world, write Casey N. Blake, Roosevelt Montás and Tamara Mann Tweel.
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03.27.2017 | Staff WritingsHow Grant Seekers Can Show They Seek Change, Not Just a Foundation’s CheckThe Teagle Foundation staff share their desire to see geniune commitments to transformation in a Chronicle of Philanthropy op-ed.
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03.01.2017 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsCultivating Leadership and Addressing Educational InequalityBeth Breger, Executive Director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America, shares insights into the hurdles of economic inequality for students beyond the admissions process.
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03.01.2017 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Announces Over $800K in New GrantsThe Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has approved over $800,000 in support of its ongoing initiatives and special projects to advance teaching and learning of liberal arts education.
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02.08.2017 | Teagle in the NewsStrategies for Saving the Liberal ArtsThe challenges faciling the liberal arts are well-known. Teagle grantee, Steven Mintz, offers four strategies for saving the liberal arts.
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02.03.2017 | Teagle in the NewsCampuses Are the Place for Difficult Conversations About FaithEboo Patel, author of a new book, Interfaith Leadership: A Primer, says religion — and the contributions of believers — should be an integral part of diversity efforts.
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01.26.2017 | Staff WritingsGetting to the Core of ItFaculty members at a wide range of institutions are finding they can have a powerful impact by organizing curriculum -- not just individual courses -- to support students’ learning and success.
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01.09.2017 | Teagle in the NewsMaking the Case for Liberal Arts CollegesStudy finds positive impact on graduates' life experiences, including leadership, civic-mindedness...and financial success.
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12.20.2016 | Teagle in the NewsBusiness ReimaginedIn the Fall 2016 isse of Franklin and Marshall Magazine, Professor Jeffrey Nesteruk describes the way Franklin & Marshall teaches business as “the relentless pragmatism of business and the critical spirit of liberal inquiry.”
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12.16.2016 | Teagle in the NewsCommunity College Leaders Launch Guided Pathways ProjectA project to increase the number of students who earn a certificate or degree at a community college is underway.
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12.11.2016 | Staff WritingsA Foundation Leader’s Advice: Come to the Meeting PreparedA former president of Barnard who now leads The Teagle Foundation shares her views on meetings from both sides of the table.
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12.09.2016 | Teagle in the NewsBlack Learning MattersWe in higher education talk a lot about access, but we rarely include in that discussion access for all students to a rich and genuinely diverse curriculum, argues Teagle Senior Advisor W. Robert Connor.
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12.05.2016 | Press ReleaseThe Teagle Foundation Announces Over $1M in New GrantsThe Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has approved over $1 million in support of its ongoing initiatives to advance teaching and learning in liberal arts education.
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10.20.2016 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsExploring Liberal Arts Beyond the AcademyThe Foundation recently had the opportunity to connect two of the grantees in our Liberal Arts Beyond the Academy special initiative, to talk about their experiences of bringing the humanities well beyond traditional classroom settings.
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10.17.2016 | Staff WritingsIntegrating Liberal Arts Into Business EducationThe world of business is undergoing seismic changes in the face of globalization. More than ever, the liberal arts are relevant for preparing the future generation of business leaders.
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09.27.2016 | Teagle in the NewsPresidential Vetoes and TenureThe Teagle Foundation president Judith Shapiro was featured in Inside Higher Ed with comments regarding a president's role in tenure decisions.
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09.23.2016 | Staff WritingsOur History, Our SelvesAs we consider which aspects of racism we in higher education can most effectively address, we need to make our institutions ideal places for cultivating the sociological imagination, writes President Judith Shapiro.
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09.16.2016 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsOnline Learning in the Liberal Arts College: Is there a role?Small liberal arts colleges take pride in the personalized instruction in small classes they offer their students. Why would they consider online learning for undergraduates? The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) has just completed the first phase of a pilot project that goes a long way toward answering this question.
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09.01.2016 | Staff WritingsPrickly Paradigm #50: Community of Scholars, Community of TeachersAcademics routinely engage with colleagues in the research community as a critical part of their work. But, although many researchers are also dedicated teachers, teaching tends to be seen as a private matter between a teacher and his or her students. But why shouldn’t faculty members feel a similar impulse to be aware of what their colleagues are doing in the area of teaching? What do we miss when the conversation, especially at major research universities, is focused almost exclusively on research?
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08.26.2016 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsAnother Way to Inject Diversity into the Core CurriculumDemands that institutions diversify their curriculum abound. Students at institutions as wide-ranging as Yale and Seattle University are calling for their institutions and departments to “decolonize” their curriculum by revising their syllabi and requirements to ensure that that the educational experience addresses present-day and historic inequalities.
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07.31.2016 | Teagle in the NewsUSC Hosts 'Boot Camp' for Military Veterans Aimed at Easing Culture Shock of College LifeAt USC, the Warrior-Scholar Project aims to help veterans hone academic and social skills that may be lacking or forgotten, dissuading many from considering a top-tier school.
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07.21.2016 | Teagle in the NewsLiberal Arts or Business Education? Both, Deans SayLehigh University is spotlighted in integrating liberal arts and a business education.
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07.05.2016 | Teagle in the NewsHumanities and BusinessWhat do the humanities have to teach the business sector?
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06.05.2016 | Teagle in the NewsThe Consolations of an Occupied MindThe Teagle Foundation president Judith Shapiro was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education with important comments about liberal arts education.
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06.03.2016 | Teagle in the NewsWhat Should a Major Teach? ‘Adrift’ Authors Offer AnswersIn a conversation with The Chronicle, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa discuss the need for disciplinary consensus, how faculty members might use the fruits of the project, and how this work might result in better tests.
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06.01.2016 | Teagle in the NewsA Faculty Stand on AssessmentTo do justice to students and as a matter of professional duty, faculty members should be at the center of defining and measuring undergraduate learning outcomes, argue Josipa Roksa and Richard Arum.
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05.31.2016 | Teagle in the NewsPlan to Define and Test What Students Should KnowRichard Arum's new book Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments in the 21st Century is a Teagle Foundation supported project that outlines learning outcomes for six diciplines.
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05.13.2016 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsTo Have Great Poets There Must Be Great Audiences TooIn higher education, feedback on instructional design and delivery has not yet reached a level of sophistication sufficient to drive and sustain widespread excellence in teaching and learning.
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04.29.2016 | Teagle in the NewsA Laboratory for Interfaith Studies in Pennsylvania Dutch CountryElizabethtown College, featured in the article, has just started a degree program and core courses in interfaith studies from an IFYC funded grant.
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04.22.2016 | Teagle in the NewsHigher Education Needs to Find Better Ways to Make the Case for the HumanitiesW. Robert Connor, the Senior Advisor to the President of the Teagle Foundation, suggests five effective ways to discuss the value of the humanities.
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04.18.2016 | Teagle in the NewsGrantmakers Think It's Cool. So Do Universities. The Students? Not So MuchNew program adaptations emerge for grantees in Teagle's Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience Initiative.
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04.11.2016 | Teagle in the NewsWhen Students Are SkepticsTeagle Foundation grantees in the Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience Initiative gathered together for a weekend of brainstorming, reflection, and project planning.
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04.11.2016 | Teagle in the NewsPinterest Wins Fans In Academia, Helping Users Analyze Tough NovelsFive Colleges consortium's hybird learning project is featured in this article about using social media in the classroom, specifically Pintrest to analayze novels.
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04.05.2016 | Teagle in the NewsThe Advantages of Coteaching for Graduate StudentsAnna Castillo discusses Stanford University’s Collaborative Teaching Project, started with a Teagle Foundation grant.
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04.01.2016 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Grantee Jeff Ginsburg is Named in 40 Under 40Jeff Ginsburg, the Executive Director for the East Harlem Tutorial Program has been named in Crain’s 40 Under 40.
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04.01.2016 | Teagle in the NewsBetter Together: Colleges Form Academic AlliancesThe Five Colleges of Ohio consortium, a Teagle Foundation grantee, is spotlighted in this article about the benefits colleges experience when joining a consortium.
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03.16.2016 | Teagle in the NewsThe College App That Changed My LifeA student reflects on her experience with online education and a digital resource and textbook library through an app-based platform built to increase college student retention.
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03.16.2016 | Teagle in the NewsThe Top Five Businesses That Promote LiteratureRead more > | 3/16/2016 12:00:00 AM |
02.24.2016 | Teagle in the NewsEngagement Lab Partners with Local Institutions in Boston Civic Media ConsortiumMembers of Emerson’s faculty have partnered with other colleges and organizations around the area to form the Boston Civic Media Consortium, a network aimed at advancing research on multiple levels throughout the city.
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01.29.2016 | Teagle in the NewsBack-to-School Boot Camps Help Veterans in the ClassroomThe Warrior-Scholar Project, a Teagle Foundation grantee, is hosted in campuses across the nation to provide a boot camp with a liberal arts focus for veterans returning to education
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01.22.2016 | Teagle in the NewsStudy Traces Characteristics of Undergraduate Education to Key Measures of Success in LifeA new project funded by a Teagle Foundation grant to the Great Lakes Colleges Association, displays new research about the long-term outcomes of attending a liberal arts college.
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01.08.2016 | Teagle in the NewsHelping Disadvantaged High School Students Love the ClassicsThe Almanac of American Philanthropy conveniently encapsulates the history, purposes, effects, and modern direction of private giving.
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12.17.2015 | Staff WritingsSeeing the World Through Different EyesRacial inequality on campuses plays out in a variety of ways that must be dealt with on many different fronts, says Teagle President Judith Shapiro.
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12.06.2015 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation Awards $1.5 Million for Liberal Arts EducationThe Teagle Foundation in New York City has announced grants totaling nearly $1.5 million in support of liberal arts education projects at institutions of higher education and other nonprofit educational organizations.
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10.06.2015 | Staff WritingsConsortial Leadership to Scale and Sustain InnovationLoni Bordoloi and Anne Bezbatchenko write about consortial leadership in foundations.
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09.18.2015 | Teagle in the NewsA Symposium Cautions Against Conflating Education With Job TrainingA Teagle Foundation sponsored symposium, held by the Council of Independent Colleges, continues the conversation on publicizing the value of a liberal arts education.
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07.31.2015 | Teagle in the NewsShifting the Mind-Set for Veterans Moving from Battlefield to ClassroomThe Teagle Foundation funded Warrior-Scholar Project prepares veterans for the transition back to education in the classroom.
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07.31.2015 | Teagle in the NewsHow to Live WiselyImagine you are Dean for a Day. What is one actionable change you would implement to enhance the college experience on campus?
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06.08.2015 | Teagle in the NewsThis Funder Believes There is Room in College for STEM and the HumanitiesThe Teagle Foundation supports broad liberal arts education in addition to an integrated approach on learning, supporting STEM programs that bring together the best of the two worlds.
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06.04.2015 | Staff WritingsFaculty Roles: The Next Diversity FrontierIt's time to stop pretending that all faculty members should or realistically have the talents to divide their efforts similarly among teaching, research and service, writes Judith Shapiro.
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04.30.2015 | Staff WritingsThat's Not My DepartmentTeagle President, Judith Shapiro considers whether it is time for faculty members to focus on their colleges and universities more than on their disciplines and organizational units.
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04.27.2015 | Staff WritingsBringing the Liberal Arts to Engineering EducationLoni Bordoloi, the Teagle Foundation Program Director writes with James Winebrake about integrating the liberal arts in engineering education which positions future engineers to be successful at anticipating, defining, and solving unique problems.
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04.01.2015 | Teagle in the NewsPunishment, Post-OklahomaCollege leaders have gotten speedier and more severe in taking action against students linked to racist incidents. Critics fear due process is being eroded.
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03.28.2015 | Teagle in the NewsRole-playing History Game Gets Students JazzedReacting to the Past, a Teagle Foundation funded project, started at Barnard College in a classroom to encourage students to engage with the history curriculum on a new level.
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01.26.2015 | Teagle in the NewsAAC&U Session Focuses on Holistic Faculty EvaluationA Teagle Foundation funded project featuring the collaboration of 16 colleges and universities through the New American Colleges and Universities consortium aims to reassess faculty evaluation, opting for a more holistic approach.
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01.09.2015 | Teagle in the NewsAn Intimate EducationA faculty member reflects on her experience teaching a summer course to low-income high school students on great books.
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12.15.2014 | Staff WritingsFrom Strength to StrengthTo promote real growth by students, colleges need to stop helping them avoid everything that dismays or offends, writes Judith Shapiro.
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11.17.2014 | Staff WritingsThe Value of a Shared EducationPresident Judith Shapiro explores: To what extent are undergraduates moving through overlapping though largely differentiated networks, and to what extent do they share experiences, priorities, and goals?
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08.27.2014 | Teagle in the NewsBook Advocates 'Reacting to the Past' PedagogyIn new book, creator of "Reacting to the Past," a Teagle Foundation supported program, details history of the pedagogical technique and advocates its wider adoption.
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08.21.2014 | Staff WritingsThe Digital Natives Are RestlessJudith Shapiro asks if academe is paying sufficient attention to all of the ways in which technology is changing the role of the professor and faculty-student interaction.
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08.18.2014 | Teagle in the NewsFree Speech and Faculty Appointments / Age BiasIn the latest "This Week," Inside Higher Ed's free news podcast, AcademeBlog's John K. Wilson and the Teagle Foundation's Judith Shapiro, assessed the implications of the University of Illinois's decision not to hire Steven Salaita
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08.08.2014 | Staff Writings'Civil' WarsJust because civility may not be an appropriate reason to hire, tenure or fire academics doesn't mean it shouldn't matter in higher education, writes Judith Shapiro.
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08.04.2014 | Teagle in the NewsPlato and the Promise of CollegeFrank Bruni, Op-Ed Columnist of The New York Times reflects on his visit to the Teagle-funded College-Community Connections partnership between Double Discovery Center and Columbia University.
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05.02.2014 | Teagle in the NewsSexual Assault, Money from China, and Email PrivacyOn Inside Higher Ed's premiere newscast, the Teagle Foundation's Judith Shapiro and Ben Wildavsky of the State University of New York's Rockefeller Institute of Government join Inside Higher Ed's Scott Jaschik and moderator Casey Green to discuss the White House campaign on sexual assaults and more.
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04.22.2014 | Staff WritingsCommunity of Scholars, Community of TeachersAcademe encourages professors to build ties connected to their research. But Judith Shapiro wants to know why the same attention isn't given to connections related to what goes on in the classroom.
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03.03.2014 | Staff WritingsThe Dear Departed: Reflections on Presidential TransitionsPresident Judith Shapiro reflects on the successes and challenges of presidential transitions.
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02.20.2014 | Teagle in the NewsCollege Uses Test Data to Show ValueKalamazoo College, a Teagle Foundation grantee, is spotlighted in this Wall Street Journal article for their commitment to transform college into a more vibrant teaching and learning environment by fostering a campus-wide and sustainable presence of the scholarship of teaching and learning.
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01.16.2014 | Staff WritingsIt Ain’t What I SayWhen administrators about issues such as assessment and competency-based learning, writes Judith Shapiro, the language they use is crucial if they want to engage faculty members.
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03.27.2013 | Teagle in the NewsJudith Shapiro Named Next President of Teagle FoundationJudith Shapiro has been named the next president of the Teagle Foundation, and will succeed Richard Morrill in July.
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