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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.

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The Teagle Foundation Commits over $525,000 in Higher Education Community Relief Grants

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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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What 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.

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The General Education Curriculum We Need

In this this Inside Higher Ed article, Steven Mintz makes the case for reimagining general education so it’s more relevant for students and better balances structure (in the form of common experiences) and choice (through distribution requirements). He highlights the Teagle funded Cornerstone program at Purdue University as an example of what a holistic general eduction program can achieve.

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Message from President Andrew Delbanco on the Imperative of Racial Justice

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The 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.

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The Teagle Foundation Makes $750,000 in New Grants

The Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors awarded grants totaling $750,000 through its initiatives, Pathways to the Liberal Arts and Education for American Civic Life.

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The Pandemic’s Most Powerful Writer Is a Surgeon

Teagle 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.

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Message from President Andrew Delbanco in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Getting Online: Lessons from Liberal Arts Colleges

This 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.

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No Place to Hide: Colleges Track Students, Everywhere

Teagle 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.

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Within NYC’s Highly Segregated School System, a Group of Low-Income Students Sacrifice Their Summers

Non-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.

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Some Colleges Start to Confront a Surprising Reason Students Fail: Too Many Choices

In 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.

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Econ Extra Credit with David Brancaccio

Journalist David Brancaccio of the public radio show Marketplace is leading a reading group that will delve into Teagle grantee Core Economics website's free, online economics textbook that emphasizes empirical research, historical context, and the use of hands-on data.

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A Doubtful Freedom

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 reviewed by historian David W. Blight in The New York Review of Books.

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Giant Leaps for the Liberal Arts at Purdue

This 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. 

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100 Notable Books of 2019

Teagle 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.

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The Teagle Foundation Makes $1.6M in New Grants

The Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors awarded grants totaling $1.6 million through its newly launched initiatives, Pathways to the Liberal Arts and Education for American Civic Life.

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A Modern Great Books Solution to the Humanities’ Enrollment Woes

This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education showcases the background, results, and future of Purdue University's Cornerstone program.

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Can You Get Students Interested in the Humanities Again? These Colleges May Have It Figured Out

This article highlights how Purdue's Cornerstone program has helped revive liberal arts enrollment at a STEM-oriented university. 

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Shakespeare on the Shop Floor: Literature at Work and in the Community

Ann Kowal Smith expands on a panel session about demonstrating the value of the humanities outside of academia.

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Where 4-Year Schools Find a Pool of Applicants: 2-Year Schools

This 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. 

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Foundation President and Historian Wants to Make the Humanities Accessible

In this article, Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco discusses his goals to engage students in the humanities.

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Teagle Foundation Forum Explores What Liberal Arts Can Offer Underrepresented Students

At 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.

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A Liberal Arts Approach to Design Thinking

Teagle grantee Jeffrey Nesteruk discusses a liberal arts approach to design thinking at Franklin & Marshall College.

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How an Idiosyncratic Role-Playing Game Became a Popular Teaching Tool

This 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. 

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Closer Reading: Teaching Fiction at Work

Laura Baudot discusses her experience teaching with Books@Work. 

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Words to Live (and Work) by: Fairbanks Morse Books@Work Program

Fairbanks 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. 

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Alexandra Logue, Graduate Center of the City University of New York – Remedial Math

Math 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. 

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Formerly Homeless High School Senior Gets into 12 Universities

A 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.

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Hope 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.

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Teagle Foundation Awards $1.2 Million for Liberal Arts Initiatives

The Teagle Foundation has announced grants totaling nearly $1.3 million in support of liberal arts programs nationwide through two recently launched initiatives.

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The Teagle Foundation Makes Over $1.2M in New Grants

The 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.

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Andrew 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. 

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The Future of Gen Ed

A 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.

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How 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.

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2019 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.”

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Teaching at Scale

This 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

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NE Board of Higher Education Launches Initiative for Independent College Transfer

Local 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.

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Announcing the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and Finalists

Teagle Foundation president, Andrew Delbanco, has been awarded the 2019 Lukas Prize by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

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How Academic Institutions Are Reducing Expenses With Cross-Institution Collaboration

Strategies 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.

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Harvard's Econ 101 Class Will Never Be the Same

This column describes the efforts of Teagle grantee Core Economics website (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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Teagle Foundation Awards $3 Million to Bolster Liberal Arts Education

The Teagle Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $3 million to bolster liberal arts programs across the country.

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The Teagle Foundation Welcomes New Director Alondra Nelson and Makes Over $3M in New Grants

Alondra 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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An Agenda for Moderates

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's 1999 book, The Real American Dream, is highlighted in this New York Times column by David Brooks. 

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By Any Other Name

Liberal education advocates discuss ways to "reclaim" conversations about academe -- in part by not using the term "liberal arts."

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Teaching an Ivy League Curriculum at a Community College

Hostos 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.

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A Great American Hater

Andrew Delbanco discusses the life and times of John Quincy Adams, as revealed by his Diaries, 1799-1821 and Diaries, 1821-1848.

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The War Before the War

Andrew 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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Fugitive Slaves and the Road to the Civil War

Teagle 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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How One College Made Its Gen-Ed Program Feel More Relevant

Shenandoah 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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SF State Smoothes the Path to Graduation

San 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.

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For Staff and Adjuncts, a Shot at Tenure

In 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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Diversity in Higher Ed: How One Organization is Getting More Diverse Students on Campus

In 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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'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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Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018

The 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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Doing Philanthropy Together

Learn about opportunitites and challenges of a collaborative funding model focused on increasing college graduation rates. 

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Battle Lines: Recovering the Profound Divisions that Led to the Civil War

Gordon 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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The Teagle Foundation Renews Support to a Funder Collaborative and Launches New Initiatives

The 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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The Question Without a Solution

Alan 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. 

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‘No Property in Man’ and ‘The War Before the War’ Review: The Fuse the Founders Lit

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, is highlighted in this feature by David S. Reynolds in The Wall Street Journal. 

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Lincoln and the Fugtive Slave Act

Teagle 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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America’s Struggle for Moral Coherence

The problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is what led to the Civil War. It hasn’t gone away.

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How 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.

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Migrant Slaves, Sanctuary Cities and the Coming of the Civil War

Teagle 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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A Den of Braggarts and Brawlers

Andrew Delbanco reviews The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Yale historian Joanne Freeman.

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Purposeful Pathways: Faculty Planning for Curricular Coherence

Purposeful 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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Bringing the Core to High School Students

Wrestling 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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Redeeming the Liberal Arts

Leon 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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The Rigidness of Academic Routine

Director Brian Rosenberg's essay summarizes major challenges to liberal education.

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The Power of Academic Friendship

It 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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Liberal Arts Shouldn’t be an Afterthought at Large Research Universities

Teagle grantee, Purdue University, describes its unique Cornerstone Intergrated Liberal Arts program.

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How Studying Business, Engineering in College Can Lead to Jobs

Undergraduate programs are pushing creativity and communication skills alongside technical abilities.

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PBS NewsHour: To Narrow Toxic Divides, Students Build Bridges Between Faiths

Teagle grantee, Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), is featured in this PBS NewsHour segment.

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The Grand Challenges Scholars Program: Integrating Liberal Arts and STEM

Read about the Grand Challenges Scholars Program on the campuses of two Teagle grantees, Olin College and Lawrence Technology University.

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Escaping Westworld

In 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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UMN Morris Offers Hands-on Course on Indigenous Education

This 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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Research Backs California's Push to Reform Remedial Math Education

Drawing 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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How to Get the Most Out of College

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco is quoted in this essay by New York Times columnist Frank Bruni.

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Cleveland Police Event Uses Story to Spark Discussion Between Officers and Community Members

Learn about how Teagle-grantee, Books@Work, is bridging connections between police officers and their communities. 

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Reading, 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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Setting A Foundation In The Classics For High School Students

Learn more about the summer seminar for rising high school seniors, Freedom and Citizenship in Ancient, Modern and Contemporary Thought.

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From the Battlefield to the Classroom: Program Helping Reintroduce Soldiers to College

Some soldiers are trading the battlefield for a college campus by enrolling in the Warrior-Scholar Project.

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Bringing People Together With Books, In Cleveland And Beyond

A novel idea that started in Cleveland to bringing people together through book clubs. It’s gone global.

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U of A Hosting Warrior Scholar Project for Veterans

From 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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The Extensive Evidence of Co-Requisite Remediation's Effectiveness

Study 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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Several Colleges Already Teach the ‘Big Questions of Life’

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco offers a response to Professor Howard Gardner's Why We Should Require All Students to Take 2 Philosophy Courses.

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Bootcamp Helps Vets Transition to College Life

A 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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How College Courses on Happiness and Humiliation Became the Hottest Trend on Campus

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco is quoted on trendy themes among college course offerings. 

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Military, Veterans Study at Harvard

Warrior-Scholar Project aims to ease veterans' transition to college life.

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Academic "Boot" Camp

Through the Warrior-Scholar Project, college-bound military personnel completed a weeklong academic “military to college” course at Penn.

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Cleveland Uses Literature to Empower Youth, Overcome Social Divides

By 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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One College Is Doing a Lot to Solve Mass-Incarceration Problem

In 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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Back-to-School Boot Camp: Texas A&M Again Hosting Program to Prepare Veterans for College Life

Going 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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Princeton University Helps Military Vets Adjust To College Life

An 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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What’s Discovered When Disciplines Learn from Each Other

Jeffrey 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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Reimagining the Liberal Arts

The liberal arts can help students prepare for the complexities of the modern workplace, including those related to religious diversity. 

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‘Making Sense of the College Curriculum’

Authors discuss new book examining the faculty role -- and how professors view their responsibilities.

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Do 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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Philanthropy and the Interfaith Imperative

Interfaith 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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The Teagle Foundation Announces $300K in New Grants

The 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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Literature Changing Lives: Books@Work Helps Local Veterans Start A New Chapter

Books@Work has launched a special community-based program for veterans.

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Collaboration on Documentary Storymaking Minor - A Model of Digital Innovation

Teagle 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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A 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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George Anders, Editor at Large at LinkedIn, Reflects on Liberal Arts and the Professions

George Anders shares reflections on his recent participation in Teagle's convening of Liberal Arts and the Professions.

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People: CEO Exits Council on Foundations, New Leaders Join Teagle and SunTrust Funds

Andrew 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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Invisible No More: How Advising Programs Are Finding New Talent for Top Colleges

Teagle 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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Fourteen 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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The 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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Teagle Foundation Names Delbanco Next President

The 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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Teagle Foundation’s New President: Private Universities Have Public Responsibilities

Andrew 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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Can 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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Book Club, in the Office

Teagle grantee Books@Work brings literature discussions led by professors to the workplace.

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The Abominable White DNA Snowman

Teagle 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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The Teagle Foundation Continues Support of College Access for NYC Youth & Ongoing Initiatives to Adv

The 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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Shared 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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Can Technology Save The Liberal Arts?

The Teagle Foundation partnered with Ithaka S+R to evaluate the implementation and outcomes of its Hybrid Learning and Residential Liberal Arts Experience intiaitve.

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From Mentee to Mentor

Cherishe Cumma, student participant in CUNY Futures Initiative's Undergraduate Leadership Program, reflects on her experiences in this essay.

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If You Build It, They May Not Come

Initiative 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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Seeing Is Believing…and Understanding

Teagle Foundation Program Officer Desiree Vazquez Barlatt reflects on the transformative impact of a recent site visit.

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Relationships 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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Yale Professor Discusses Warrior-Scholar Project on Fox & Friends

Teagle grantee, Warrior-Scholar Project, was featured on Fox & Friends.

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Free Speech and Quality Speech

Is there a different way of thinking, Judith Shapiro asks, about significant speech events on campuses?

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The Subtle Surprises of Academic Friendships

Personal 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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The Teagle Foundation Continues Advocacy of Liberal Arts Education In and Out of the Academy

The 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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Second Chances: The Funders Bringing College into Prisons

A small but steadily growing prison education program continues to expand with the help of some big foundations.

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At 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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Need 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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Democracy’s Disappearance

Our students don’t understand what it is, so how will they defend it?

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The Teaching of Economics Gets an Overdue Overhaul

The Core Economics website 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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How to Save the Humanities? Make Them a Requirement Toward a Business Degree

One Canadian university sets out to prove the value of the humanities in lucrative careers.

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From Inmates to Graduates: The Prison-to-College Pipeline

Inside the NYC-based program that gives the incarcerated a second chance.

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A Call for Curricular Coherence

Proliferating 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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300,000 Women Are Missing From Economics

The Core Economics website 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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A New Way to Learn Economics

A group of economists from both sides of the Atlantic, part of a project called Core Economics website Econ, has put together a new introductory economics curriculum, one that is modern, comprehensive, and freely available online.

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Q&A: Ann Kowal Smith, Executive Director, Books@Work

Books@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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Texas Community Colleges Launch Student Success Initiative

The 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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Town Halls and Great Debates at Shenandoah and Tarleton State

Shenandoah 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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2-Year Colleges in Texas Launch Guided Pathways

The 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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Warrior Scholar Project Helps Veterans Prepare for College Life

The 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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MIT Hosts STEM Boot Camp for Veteran Students

Warrior-Scholar Project helps veterans transition to college with intensive summer programming.

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Liberal Education Up North: Canada’s Way

2017 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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Warrior-Scholar Project Helping Build the Leaders of Tomorrow

As 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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Warrior-Scholar Project to Host Boot Camp for Veterans

The 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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Warrior-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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Book Club Silo Buster: CEO, Factory Crew Meet to Eat and Read

Books@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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The Foundation Promotes Liberal Arts Across Colleges and Non-Profits with Nearly $2M in New Grants

The 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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California 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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Free Speech on College Campuses

President Judith Shapiro participated as a panelist at the 2017 Education Writers Association's National Seminar, a conference of education journalists. 

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Entrepreneurs Who Want to Dance: The Liberal Arts Approach to Business

The 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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Columbia Doctoral Students Travel to Princeton for Ivy+ Teaching Development Summit

Graduate 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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Do 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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College Business Programs Look to the Liberal Arts Model

A 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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Why You Should Care About Remedial Math

If 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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Advancing Liberal Education in 2017

Bethany 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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Democratizing the Great Books

At 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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How Grant Seekers Can Show They Seek Change, Not Just a Foundation’s Check

The Teagle Foundation staff share their desire to see geniune commitments to transformation in a Chronicle of Philanthropy op-ed.

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Cultivating Leadership and Addressing Educational Inequality

Beth 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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The Teagle Announces Over $800K in New Grants

The 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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Strategies for Saving the Liberal Arts

The challenges faciling the liberal arts are well-known. Teagle grantee, Steven Mintz, offers four strategies for saving the liberal arts.

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Campuses Are the Place for Difficult Conversations About Faith

Eboo 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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Getting to the Core of It

Faculty 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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Making the Case for Liberal Arts Colleges

Study finds positive impact on graduates' life experiences, including leadership, civic-mindedness...and financial success.

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Business Reimagined

In 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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Community College Leaders Launch Guided Pathways Project

A project to increase the number of students who earn a certificate or degree at a community college is underway.

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A Foundation Leader’s Advice: Come to the Meeting Prepared

A 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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Black Learning Matters

We 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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The Teagle Foundation Announces Over $1M in New Grants

The 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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Rethinking Faculty Work for Student Success

Adrianna Kezar shares reflections on her experience as an external evaluator of Teagle's Faculty Work and Student Learning in the 21st Century initiative.

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Exploring Liberal Arts Beyond the Academy

The 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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Integrating Liberal Arts Into Business Education

The 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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Presidential Vetoes and Tenure

The 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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Our History, Our Selves

As 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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Online 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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Prickly Paradigm #50: Community of Scholars, Community of Teachers

Academics 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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Another Way to Inject Diversity into the Core Curriculum

Demands 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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USC Hosts 'Boot Camp' for Military Veterans Aimed at Easing Culture Shock of College Life

At 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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Liberal Arts or Business Education? Both, Deans Say

Lehigh University is spotlighted in integrating liberal arts and a business education. 

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Humanities and Business

What do the humanities have to teach the business sector?

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The Consolations of an Occupied Mind

The Teagle Foundation president Judith Shapiro was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education with important comments about liberal arts education. 

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What Should a Major Teach? ‘Adrift’ Authors Offer Answers

In 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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A Faculty Stand on Assessment

To 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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Plan to Define and Test What Students Should Know

Richard 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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To Have Great Poets There Must Be Great Audiences Too

In 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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A Laboratory for Interfaith Studies in Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Elizabethtown 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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Higher Education Needs to Find Better Ways to Make the Case for the Humanities

W. 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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Grantmakers Think It's Cool. So Do Universities. The Students? Not So Much

New program adaptations emerge for grantees in Teagle's Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience Initiative.

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When Students Are Skeptics

Teagle 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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Pinterest Wins Fans In Academia, Helping Users Analyze Tough Novels

Five 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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The Advantages of Coteaching for Graduate Students

Anna Castillo discusses Stanford University’s Collaborative Teaching Project, started with a Teagle Foundation grant.

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Teagle Grantee Jeff Ginsburg is Named in 40 Under 40

Jeff Ginsburg, the Executive Director for the East Harlem Tutorial Program has been named in Crain’s 40 Under 40.

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Better Together: Colleges Form Academic Alliances

The 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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The College App That Changed My Life

A 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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Engagement Lab Partners with Local Institutions in Boston Civic Media Consortium

Members 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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Back-to-School Boot Camps Help Veterans in the Classroom

The 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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Study Traces Characteristics of Undergraduate Education to Key Measures of Success in Life

A 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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Helping Disadvantaged High School Students Love the Classics

The Almanac of American Philanthropy conveniently encapsulates the history, purposes, effects, and modern direction of private giving. 

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Seeing the World Through Different Eyes

Racial 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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Teagle Foundation Awards $1.5 Million for Liberal Arts Education

The 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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Consortial Leadership to Scale and Sustain Innovation

Loni Bordoloi and Anne Bezbatchenko write about consortial leadership in foundations. 

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A Symposium Cautions Against Conflating Education With Job Training

A 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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Shifting the Mind-Set for Veterans Moving from Battlefield to Classroom

The Teagle Foundation funded Warrior-Scholar Project prepares veterans for the transition back to education in the classroom.

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How to Live Wisely

Imagine 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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This Funder Believes There is Room in College for STEM and the Humanities

The 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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Faculty Roles: The Next Diversity Frontier

It'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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That's Not My Department

Teagle 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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Bringing the Liberal Arts to Engineering Education

Loni 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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Punishment, Post-Oklahoma

College 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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Role-playing History Game Gets Students Jazzed

Reacting 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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AAC&U Session Focuses on Holistic Faculty Evaluation

A 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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An Intimate Education

A faculty member reflects on her experience teaching a summer course to low-income high school students on great books. 

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From Strength to Strength

To promote real growth by students, colleges need to stop helping them avoid everything that dismays or offends, writes Judith Shapiro.

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The Value of a Shared Education

President 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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Book Advocates 'Reacting to the Past' Pedagogy

In 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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The Digital Natives Are Restless

Judith 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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Free Speech and Faculty Appointments / Age Bias

In 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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'Civil' Wars

Just 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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Plato and the Promise of College

Frank 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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Sexual Assault, Money from China, and Email Privacy

On 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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Community of Scholars, Community of Teachers

Academe 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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The Dear Departed: Reflections on Presidential Transitions

President Judith Shapiro reflects on the successes and challenges of presidential transitions.

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College Uses Test Data to Show Value

Kalamazoo 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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It Ain’t What I Say

When 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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Judith Shapiro Named Next President of Teagle Foundation

Judith Shapiro has been named the next president of the Teagle Foundation, and will succeed Richard Morrill in July. 

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