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Outcomes and Assessment
November 2011
  • Engaging Evidence (More details)
    One implementation grant of $150,000 over 24 months for a project focused on using data to develop interventions that will improve student learning.
  • Association of Governing Boards (More details)
    $200,000 over 24 months to develop and implement plans for more effectively engaging their boards in overseeing educational quality and student learning.
  • National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (More details)
    $150,000 over 30 months to further support NILOA's efforts to serve as a central resource for individuals and institutions engaged in evidence-based efforts to improve student learning.
  • New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability (More details)
    $50,000 over 12 months to support the Alliance's current priorities to promote the adoption of professional norms for gathering and using evidence to improve student learning.
    • May 2011
    • Engaging Evidence (More details)
      One grant of $220,000 over 16 months and one collaborative planning grant of $70,000 for projects focused on using data to develop interventions that will improve student learning.
    February 2011
    • Engaging Evidence (More details)
      Five collaborative grants of up to $300,000 over 29 months for projects focused on using data to develop interventions that will improve student learning.
    • University of Southern California, Loyola Marymount University-Los Angeles, and Whittier College (More details)
      $250,000 over 24 months to develop and test a model that seeks to monitor, assess, and improve the transfer process of students from public community colleges to private liberal arts colleges.
    November 2010
    • Engaging Evidence (More details)
      Two collaborative grants of up to $200,000 over 30 months and one planning grant of $50,000 over 10 months for projects focused on using data to develop interventions that will improve student learning.
    May 2010
    • Council for Aid to Education (More details)
      $99,760 over 18 months to develop the CLA in the Classroom Faculty Scholars / Critical Think Tank.
    • Social Science Research Council (More details)
      $25,393 over 13 months to develop and implement a communication plan for Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.
    • Wabash College (Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts) (More details)
      $299,632 over 36 months for the Teagle Assessment Scholar Development Program.
    November 2009
    • Sarah Lawrence College (More details)
      $25,000 over 12 months to develop SLIDE, the Sarah Lawrence Individual Direct Evaluation.
    May 2009
    • Systematic Improvement of Student Learning (More details)
      Five collaborative grants of up to $150,000 over 48 months, three single-institution grants of up to $75,000 over 36 months, and one first-step collaborative grant of up to $75,000 over 24 months.
    • New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability (More details)
      $150,000 over 36 months to support a national effort to improve student learning at the undergraduate level.
    February 2009
    • Great Lakes College Association, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College (More details)
      $214,863 over 37 months for the Study Abroad Learning and Cost Alliance.
    • Northwestern University (More details)
      $165,766 over 52 months for supplemental support of the project, Assessing Undergraduate Outcomes Within Disciplinary Contexts.
    • Southern Education Foundation (More details)
      $300,000 over 36 months to help its member institutions use outcomes assessment to improve student learning.
    November 2008
    • Value-Added Assessment Collaboratives (More details)
      Six implementation grants of up to $300,000 over 36 months.
    • The Association of American Colleges and Universities (More details)
      $303,969 over 24 months to build faculty and departmental leadership for liberal education outcomes.
    • Augustana College, Allegheny College, College of Wooster, and Washington College (More details)
      $284,960 over 42 months to examine and assess senior capstone experiences.
    • Hamilton College (More details)
      $84,000 over six months to create an alliance for student learning and accountability.
    • Social Science Research Council (More details)
      $150,000 over 36 months to investigate variations in cognitive growth as measured by the Collegiate Learning Assessment.
    • The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University (More details)
      $150,000 over 36 months to create a "go-to" site for assessment work being done at institutions across the country.
    May 2008
    • Systematic Improvement of Student Learning (More details)
      Thirteen implementation grants of up to $150,000 over 48 months and two first-step planning grants of $25,000 over 12 months for liberal arts colleges.
    • Lawrence University (More details)
      $94,700 over 24 months to explore methods of assessing tutorial education.
    • Wellesley College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Middlebury College, Smith College, Trinity College, and the New England Asscoation of Schools and Colleges (More details)
      $196,000 over 36 months to continue the work of the New England consortium on assessment and student learning.
    • University of Southern California (More details)
      $299,912 over 36 months to assess the impact of diversity courses on students' higher order thinking skills.
    February 2008
    • The College of Wooster, Allegheny College, Augustana College, and Washington College (More details)
      $15,000 over seven months for the assessment of student learning outcomes in capstone research experiences
    • The Council of Independent Colleges (More details)
      $120,000 over 34 months for supplemental support of the CIC-Collegiate Learning Assessment Consortium.
    • Wabash College (The Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts) (More details)
      $394,500 over 63 months to use the Wabash National Study to promote assessment and improvements in student learning.
    November 2007
    • Appalachian College Association (More details)
      $300,000 over 24 months to enhance students' math and quantitative literacy skills at ACA colleges.
    • Association of American Colleges and Universities (More details)
      $100,000 over 12 months to develop a summer institute for the assessment of student learning at the departmental level.
    • Council for Aid to Education (More details)
      $80,000 over six months to support CLA in the Classroom.
    • Duke University (More details)
      $246,960 over 54 months to foster a culture of experimentation and evidence for undergraduate education at ten research universities.
    • Northwestern University (More details)
      $215,899 over 41 months to assess learning outcomes within disciplinary contexts.
    • Vanderbilt University (More details)
      $194,724 over 36 months to study the value added of double majors with respect to creativity and a liberal education.
    May 2007
    • Value-Added Assessment Collaboratives (More details)
      Twelve first-step planning grants of up to $25,000 over 12 months to begin work on larger, faculty-driven assessment projects.
    • Council for Aid to Education (More details)
      $20,000 over one month to support the Council for Aid to Education's Research University Consortium.
    February 2007
    • Appalachian College Association (More details)
      $25,000 over six months for a planning grant to investigate the root causes of students' chronic underachievement in mathematics, to develop interventions that will increase their skills, and to measure the impact of the interventions.
    • Council of Independent Colleges (More details)
      $545,714 over 36 months to extend the work of the CIC-Collegiate Learning Assessment consortium.
    November 2006
    • Improved Assessment Methods (More details)
      Two grants of up to $100,000 over 24 months for the development of assessment methods.
    May 2006
    • Value-Added Assessment Collaboratives (More details)
      Five grants of up to $300,000 over 36 months for faculty-driven assessment projects.
    • Wabash College (Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts) (More details)
      $300,000 over 36 months to implement a plan to make the Center the leading resource for providing assessment assistance to liberal arts colleges.
    • Vanderbilt University (Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy) (More details)
      $25,000 over 12 months to explore how the arts stimulate creativity, engagement, and learning on college campuses.
    November 2005
    • Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Associated Colleges of the South, and the Great Lakes College Association (More details)
      $300,000 over 36 months for an assessment of study abroad programs.
    • Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media (More details)
      $40,000 over 12 months for a primer on the importance of value-added assessment for higher education.
    May 2005
    • Value-Added Assessment Collaboratives (More details)
      six grants of $300,000 over 36 months for faculty-driven assessment projects.
    • First-Step Value-Added Assessment Collaboratives (More details)
      Five grants of $25,000 over 12 months for beginning work in this area and planning for larger, faculty-driven projects.
    • Wabash College (More details)
      $50,000 over 12 months for the assessment of general liberal education outcomes.
    • Northwestern University (More details)
      $25,000 over 12 months for the development and testing of a discipline-specific assessment instrument.
    November 2004
    • National and Regional Consortia (More details)
      Five grants of up to $300,000 for assessment projects.

    Fresh Thinking
    November 2011
    • Faculty Work and Student Learning in the 21st Century (More details)
      One grant of $49,875 over 12 months, two planning grants of $15,000 over 6 to 11 months, and one implementation grant of $150,000 over 24 months to address central concerns facing liberal education today related to: the changing nature of faculty work; how we support that evolving work; and how new ways of work speak to the needs of a changing student body.
      • Change Magazine (More details)
      $75,000 over 36 months to support the administration of Change Magazine.
    May 2011
    • Faculty Work and Student Learning in the 21st Century (More details)
      One grant of $30,000 over 24 months and eight planning grants of up to $20,000 over 12 months to address central concerns facing liberal education today related to: the changing nature of faculty work; how we support that evolving work; and how new ways of work speak to the needs of a changing student body.
    • The Aspen Institute (More details)
      $75,000 over 24 months for Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession.
    • Reacting to the Past (More details)
      $25,000 over 12 months for Reacting to the Past's sustainable business model.
    November 2010
    • Disciplines and Liberal Education (More details)
      One grant of $40,000 over 18 months to follow up on findings and recommendations of the Disciplines and Liberal Education White Papers.
    March / May 2010
    • Graduate School Teaching in the Arts and Sciences (More details)
      Seven grants of up to $35,000 over 18 months to research universities and one grant of $75,090 to the Council of Graduate Schools.
    November 2009
    • Disciplines and Liberal Education (More details)
      Three grants of $40,000 over 26 months to follow up on findings and recommendations of the Disciplines and Liberal Education White Papers.
    • Project Pericles (More details)
      $100,000 over 28 months for The Periclean Faculty Leadership Program.
    May 2009
    • Big Questions and the Disciplines Working Groups (More details)
      Five grants of up to $75,000 over a maximum of 24 months to multi-institutional working groups.
    November 2008
    • Union College, Bard College, Colgate University, Hamilton College, Skidmore College, and Vassar College (More details)
      $40,000 over nine months to investigate the utility of high-performance computing at liberal arts colleges.
    May 2008
    • Collegia on Student Learning (More details)
      Seven grants of up to $150,000 over a maximum of 39 months to research universities.
    February 2008
    • Collegia on Student Learning (More details)
      Four grants of up to $150,000 over a maximum of 34 months to associations of liberal arts colleges.
    May 2007
    • American Academy of Arts and Sciences (More details)
      $75,000 over 12 months for the Departmental Template Survey.
    February / May 2007
    • Multi-institutional Working Groups (More details)
      Six grants of up to $100,000 over 30 months.
    February 2007
    • The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (More details)
      $375,000 over 36 months for the "Business Education and Liberal Learning (BELL) Project."
    • Social Science Research Council (More details)
      $23,500 over three months for dissemination of the pamphlet, "What College Teacher Should Know about the Religious Engagements of Today's Undergraduates."
    November 2006
    • Disciplines Working Groups (More details)
      Six grants of up to $75,000 over 24 months to disciplinary associations.
    May 2006
    • Big Questions Working Groups (More details)
      Seven grants of up to $100,000 over 24 months.
    February 2006
    • Social Science Research Council (More details)
      $40,000 over six months for a pamphlet on "What College Teachers Should Know about the Religious Engagements of Today's Undergraduates."
    November 2005
    • College-Based Working Groups (More details)
      Five grants of up to $100,000 over 21 months.
    November 2004
    • Multi-Institutional Forums and Working Groups (More details)
      Ten grants of up to $100,000 over 21 months.

    College-Community Connections
    February 2011
    • College-Community Connections: Phase III (More details)
      Ten grants of $270,000 and one grant of $180,000 over 22 to 37 months for partnerships between community-based organizations and higher education institutions in the New York City metropolitan area.
    March 2010
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations (More details)
      Five grants of $50,000 over 24 months and one grant of $30,000 over 24 months for college preparatory programming.
    May 2009
    • Partnership for After School Education (More details)
      $75,000 over 12 months for the Supporting Afterschool Agencies in Turbulent Times initiative.
    February 2009
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations and Area Colleges and Universities (More details)
      Twelve grants of $240,000 over 36 months for partnership programs.
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations (More details)
      Five grants of $25,000 over 12 months for college preparatory programming.
    • Metropolitan Center for Urban Education at New York University (More details)
      $100,000 over 24 months for the Adolescent Post-Secondary Education Exchange Teagle Scholars Program.
    November 2008
    • New York City Colleges and Universities (More details)
      Renewed grant of $15,432 over 12 months to Columbia University a for College-Community Connections partnership.
    May 2008
    • New York City Colleges and Universities (More details)
      Renewed grant of $25,000 over 12 months to New York University a for College-Community Connections partnership.
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations
      Renewed grant of $40,000 over 12 months to East Harlem Tutorial Program, and of $15,000 over twelve months to Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House, Community for Education Foundation / Overcoming Obstacles, and Project Reach Youth for college preparatory programming.
    February 2008
    • New York City Colleges and Universities (More details)
      Renewed grants of $25,000 over 12 months to Drew University, and $12,000 over twelve months to Pace University, for College-Community Connections partnerships.
    November 2007
    • New York City Colleges and Universities (More details)
      Renewed grants of up to $25,000 over 12 months for College-Community Connections partnerships to Columbia University and the New School (Eugene Lang College).
    May 2007
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations
      Renewed grant of $40,000 over 12 months to East Harlem Tutorial Program for college preparatory programming.
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations
      Three grants of $15,000 over 12 months to the Community for Education Foundation / Overcoming Obstacles, Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House, and Project Reach Youth for college preparatory programming.
    February 2007
    • New York City Colleges and Universities (More details)
      Renewed grants of $50,000 over 24 months for College-Community Connections partnerships to Adelphi University, Barnard College, Fordham University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Vassar College.
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations
      Renewed grants of $80,000 over 24 months to The Boys' Club of New York, Citizens' Advice Bureau, East Side House Settlement, Groundwork, Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America, Prep for Prep, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, and Union Settlement Association.
    February / May 2006
    • New York City Colleges and Universities (More details)
      Ten grants of $25,000 over 12 months for College-Community Connections partnerships.
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations
      Ten grants of $40,000 over 12 months for college preparatory programming.
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations
      Three grants of $25,000 over 12 months for college preparatory programming to the extent possible, and for general operating expenses beyond that.
    February / May 2005
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations
      Seven grants of $40,000 over 12 months for college preparatory programming.
      • The Boys' Club of New York
      • East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP)
      • Groundwork
      • Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF)
      • Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA)
      • Prep for Prep
      • Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO)
    • New York City Community-Based Organizations
      Six grants of $10,000 over 12 months for unrestricted use.
      • Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB)
      • Community for Education Foundation / Overcoming Obstacles
      • East Side House Settlement
      • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House
      • Project Reach Youth (PRY)
      • Union Settlement House

    Special Grants
    February 2009
    • The University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University (More details)
      $392,450 over 36 months for the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education.
    February 2007
    • New Orleans colleges and universities are still working to re-build in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
      The Teagle Foundation's support for this area continues through grants to:
      • Dillard University - A $250,000 grant for student scholarships and faculty development.
      • Tulane University - A $100,000 grant for the Consortium Scholars Fund.
      • Xavier University - A $100,000 grant for their campus master plan.
    February 2006
    • Groundwork
      A $25,000 matching grant for the Benny Lyde Scholarship Fund to honor Benny Lyde, a senior at Long Island University and a staff member at Groundwork who was critically wounded on September 2, 2005. Benny remained in a coma for several weeks before passing away on November 30, 2005. His life was a shining example of the virtues of commitment to academic achievement, to community service, and to self-improvement, along with a deep commitment to friends and family. The scholarship will be awarded annually to the graduating Groundwork for Success senior who best exemplifies the qualities Benny exhibited in his brief but inspiring life.
    November 2005
    • Dillard University and Tulane University (More details)
      A $600,000 grant to assist in hurricane recovery efforts in New Orleans: $500,000 will go to Dillard to help students return to New Orleans and to their studies, and $100,000 will go to Tulane to support their partnership with Dillard and two other New Orleans institutions.