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TEAGLE FOUNDATION GRANTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
November 12, 2004

FORUMS AND WORKING GROUPS

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FORUMS

"Teagle Forum on Poetry" (planning grant)

 

 A $4,540 planning grant over 7 months. The NYPL, working with the Center for the Humanities located at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will plan a forum to stimulate discussions about the study of poetry as part of a liberal education and broaden awareness and use of the Library's collections. More.

Northwestern University
"Classical Antiquity and American Popular Culture"

 

 $30,000 over 12 months. The forum will consider whether recent fascination with different "fragments of antiquity" tells us something particular about the cultural moment in which we live, and will ask how humanities teachers might take advantage of this interest. Participants will include students, faculty and administrators from Northwestern and other liberal arts institutions in the Chicago area, and representatives of leading liberal arts colleges in the Midwest. More.


WORKING GROUPS

American Council of Learned Societies
"Scholar-Teachers and Student Learning"

 

 $92,100 over 18 months. ACLS will convene a working group of liberal arts faculty, institutional leaders, educational researchers, and learned society leaders who will address the vitality of the teacher-scholar model and its relation to the success of general liberal arts education across the institutional spectrum of higher education. More.

Barnard College
"Integrative Learning in Liberal Education: A Case Study"

 

 $75,951 over 12 months. The working group will address two pressing and persistent challenges - developing effective interdisciplinary course content and instituting successful learning strategies for such curricula. In collaboration with institutions in the Hudson River Valley, Barnard will lead a faculty seminar on a five-week course called "River Summer" that will take students and faculty on a voyage of inquiry and discovery from the headwaters of the Hudson to the sea. More.

Brown University
"The Values of the Open Curriculum: An Alternative Tradition in Liberal Education"

 

 $98,245 over 12 months. An "open curriculum" that emphasizes student choice, exploration, and discovery constitutes an important alternative tradition in American higher education. Representatives from colleges where the open curriculum thrives will summarize and compare what they have learned in more than forty years of experimentation. Amherst, Smith, Wesleyan, Hampshire, Evergreen, New College, Sarah Lawrence, and Antioch have expressed interest in participating. More.

Cornell University
"Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in College Completion and Achievement: A Teagle Working Group on What Works and Why"

 

 $99,978 over 18 months. Cornell University will joined by Colgate University, Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Wells College in a working group on diversity, college completion, and achievement to explore and evaluate programs designed to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in college completion and achievement. More.

Social Science Research Council
"Assessing Interdisciplinary Products of Work and Habits of Mind in Liberal Arts Education"

 

 $99,990 over 12 months. Higher education researchers and liberal arts leaders will focus on undergraduate education as they seek to address critical shortcomings in our understanding of interdisciplinary learning. More.

Washington and Lee University
"Technology Fluency and its Place in Liberal Education"

 

 $80,000 over 18 months. Washington and Lee University will work with Dartmouth, Drew, Lafayette, Maryland, Penn, Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford, Swarthmore and Yale on the issue of technology fluency and its place in liberal education. More.

Washington University in St. Louis
"Re-Thinking the Pedagogy of Ethnicity"

 

 $95,275 over 18 months. Scholars at Washington University in St. Louis will work with colleagues from Austin College, Luther College, Millsaps College, Ohio Wesleyan, and Union College on the teaching of ethnicity, seeking to unite theoretical, historical, and literary exploration with a concrete interest in classroom teaching. More.

Yale University
"Strengthening Liberal Education through Special Collections"

 

 $98,830 over 18 months. The Yale University Library will explore the strengthening of liberal arts education through making students aware of special collections materials and objects and helping them use and even create such materials. Partners will include community colleges (such as Naugatuck), four-year liberal arts colleges (such as Connecticut College), and small universities (such as Wesleyan). More.