campus partner(s)

Tennessee Board of Regents

state(s)

TN

amount

$75,000

initiative

Cornerstone: Learning for Living

award date

05.2025

project director

Robert Denn; Susan Myers-Shirk; Christina Cobb; Ryan Thompson; Eric Niemi

Grant Summary

$75,000 over 12 months to develop a 12-credit Cornerstone Humanities pathway through the general education curriculum of the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) community colleges and public baccalaureate institutions of Tennessee. The 12-credit pathway will involve a first-year course built around a common set of transformative texts and a core-text stream through a designated sequence of general education courses.