Grantees' Publications

Outcomes and Assessment

• The Council of Independent Colleges, "Evidence of Learning: Applying the Collegiate Learning Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning in the Liberal Arts College Experience"
  About the grant | Report (PDF, 2.4MB)

• Great Lakes College Association, Associated Colleges of the Midwest and Associated Colleges of the South, "Liberal Education and Study Abroad: Assessing Learning Outcomes to Improve Program Quality"
  About the grant | Report (PDF, 182KB)

• Beck, Robert J.; Skinner, William F.; and Lynsey A. Schwabrow, "Researching Assessment Methods in Tutorial Education"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 829KB)

• Meacham, Jack and Ross Miller, "Assessment of Liberal Education Outcomes: Findings from Interviews with Faculty, Administrators, and Students"
  About the grant | Report (PDF, 303KB)

• Schermer, Timothy and Simon Gray, "The Senior Capstone: Transformative Experiences in the Liberal Arts"
  About the grant | Report (1.27 MB)

• Baker, Gianina R.; Jankowski, Natasha A.; Provezis, Staci; and Jillian Kinzie, "Using Assessment Results: Promising Practices of Institutions That Do It Well"
  About the grant | Report (616 KB)

• Skubikowski, Kathleen and Adela Langrock, Assessing Student Progression in Writing in the Disciplines (WID) at Middlebury College
  About the grant | White Paper

• Berger, Ben and Jan Liss, The Periclean Diamond: Linking College Classroms, Campuses, Communities, and Colleagues
  About the grant | White Paper

• Beld, J.M., Advancing Excellence, Enhancing Equity: Making the Case for Assessment at Minority-Serving Institutions
  About the grant | Report

• Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, "Beyond the Rankings: Measuring Learning in Higher Education: A Primer"
  About the grant | Primer (PDF, 2.28MB)

• Ross Miller, "Assessment in Cycles of Improvement: Faculty Designs for Essential Learning Outcomes"
  About the grant | Report

Fresh Thinking for Liberal Education

• SouthEastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education, "Creating Active Pathways to Student Learning: A Learning to Learn Project"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 587KB)

• American Council of Learned Societies Working Group, "Student Learning and Faculty Research: Connecting Teaching and Scholarship"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 330KB)

• Barnard College Working Group, "A metacognitive pedagogy: The River Summer Project"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 496KB)

• Brown University Working Group, "The Values of the Open Curriculum: An Alternative in Liberal Education"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 649KB)

• Calvin College Working Group, "Strengthening Liberal Arts Education by Embracing Place and Particularity"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 1.05MB) | Project Website

• College of Saint Benedict / Saint John's University Working Group, "Controversial Conversations at a Faith Based Liberal Arts College"
  About the grant | White Paper

• Cornell University Working Group, "Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in College Completion and Achievement: A Teagle Working Group on What Works and Why"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 1.69MB)

• Lawrence University Working Group, "Lawrence Fellows in Liberal Arts and Sciences: A Two Year Study"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 303KB)

• Mount Holyoke College Working Group, "Global Education for All Students: Innovation & Integration in Expanding Learning Abroad"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 645KB)

• Northwestern University Forum, "Classical Antiquity and American Popular Culture"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 928KB)

• Skidmore College, "Engaging Sophomore Students with Liberal Learning: Focused Exploration through Academic Advising"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 347KB)

• Social Science Research Council Working Group, "Interdisciplinary Education at Liberal Arts Institutions"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 280KB)

• Social Science Research Council, "The Religious Engagements of American Undergraduates"
  About the grant | Guide

• Union College Working Group, 'Investigating the Utility of High-Performance Computing Capabilities at Six Small Liberal Arts Colleges"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 119KB)

• Washington and Lee University, "Technology Fluency"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 447KB)

• Washington University in Saint Louis Working Group, "Rethinking the Pedagogy of Ethnicity"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 574KB)

• Wheaton College Working Group, "Expanding Quantitative Analysis as Framework for Interdisciplinary Learning and Applied Problem Solving"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 233KB)

• Williams College, Barnard College, Carleton College, and Vassar College Working Group, "Big Science at Small Colleges: A Collaborative Model for Genomics Curriculum Development at Liberal Arts Colleges"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 1.3MB) | Project Website

• Yale University Working Group, "Strengthening Liberal Education through Special Collections"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 241KB) | Project Website

On Big Questions of Meaning and Value

• Graduate Theological Union Working Group, Engaging Meaning through Mentorship: Strengthening Post-Secondary Liberal Education through Vocation-Based Mentoring of Future Faculty
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 380KB)

• Hampshire College Working Group, "The Liberal Arts as Preparation for a Life of Work"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 274KB)

• National Humanities Center Working Group, "On the Human"
  About the grant | Project Website

• The University of Chicago Working Group, "What can I do to right the wrongs of the world?"
  About the grant | Project Website

• The University of Richmond Working Group, "The Pedagogy of Belief and Doubt"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 403KB)

• Vassar College Working Group, "On Secularity and Liberal Education"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 4.71B)

On the Relationship between the Disciplines and Undergraduate Liberal Education

• American Academy of Religion, "The Religion Major and Liberal Education"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 301KB)

• American Economic Association, "The Purpose and Practice of Economic Education as Related to Liberal Education Goals"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 154KB)

• Center for Hellenic Studies, "The Classics Major and Liberal Education"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 96KB)

• National History Center, "The History Major and Undergraduate Liberal Education"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 607KB)

• Modern Language Association, "Language, Literature, and Liberal Education"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 194KB)

On Big Questions and the Disciplines

• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, "Evaluation of the Biochemistry / Molecular Biology major as defined by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 576KB)

• *National Women's Studies Association, "Women's Studies as Civic Engagement: Research and Recommendations"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 287KB)

On Using What We Know about How Students Learn to Inform Teaching Practice and Curricular Design

• Great Lakes College Association, "Pathways to Learning Collegium"
  About the grant | White Paper (PDF, 272KB)