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The History Makers Scholars Program

The History Makers Scholars Program

For over a decade, Fordham University and BronxWorks have been partnering on the History Makers Scholars Program, which is designed to challenge South Bronx high school students to strive for academic excellence and better provide college access and liberal arts educational resources and tools to them.

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Transfer Pathways to Independent Colleges

A new report by Ithaka S+R, a not-for-profit research organization, describes the untapped potential of liberal arts transfer pathways into independent colleges and offers concrete strategies for tackling the academic, financial, and cultural dimensions of transfer.

Mapping the City University of New York

This report describes policies and programs across CUNY that relate to students impacted by the criminal justice system and explores opportunities to better engage and support those students. The research was conducted by the Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which received Teagle grants in 2015 and 2017 to support formerly incarcerated individuals in the transition back into the community and in higher education.

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08.2020 | Staff Writings

Transfer Access to the Liberal Arts

Small 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.
07.2020 | Staff Writings

Universities 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.”

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