The Teagle Foundation
  • About Teagle

    • From the Chair
    • From the President
    • Staff
    • Board
    • History
    • Annual Reports
  • Major Initiatives

    • Cornerstone: Learning for Living
    • Knowledge for Freedom
    • Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts
    • Civics in the City
  • How We Grant

    • Guidelines
    • Profiles of Grantees
    • Grants Database
    • Grantee Login
  • Resources

    • How & Why I Teach This Text
    • Insights from Grantees
    • Evaluation Reports
    • Past Initiatives
  • Newsroom

News

What do college students learn, anyway?
05.30.2024 | teagle in the news

In S2:E8 of College Uncovered, Teagle president Andrew Delbanco and Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt University) reflect on the purpose of college, reimagining general education, and the value of a common intellectual experience for first-year students.

Read more >

Community College Is the Future of Liberal Education
10.05.2023 | teagle in the news

The Teagle Foundation is one of the few private grant makers funding liberal education programs at community colleges, where Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs offer thousands of students each year the opportunity to engage with transformational texts and enduring questions.

Read more >

Gen Z Is Ready to Talk. Are Professors Ready to Listen?
09.18.2023 | teagle in the news

Purdue University is reaching a new generation of students and leading a liberal arts reform movement through its Cornerstone: Learning for Living program.

Read more >

Great Books Can Heal Our Divided Campuses
06.09.2023 | teagle in the news

Teagle president Andrew Delbanco discusses why colleges need more programs for students of different backgrounds to wrestle with big questions in this Saturday Essay for The Wall Street Journal.

Read more >

Previous Next
Filter by

Filter by:

  • Year
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • Initiative
  • A Larger Vision: Education for Civic and Moral Responsibility
  • Civics in the City
  • College-Community Connections: Community-Based Organizations
  • College-Community Connections: Partnerships
  • Cornerstone: Learning for Living
  • Dissemination
  • Education for American Civic Life
  • Faculty Planning and Curricular Coherence
  • Faculty Work and Student Learning in the 21st Century
  • Graduate Student Teaching in the Arts and Sciences
  • Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience
  • Knowledge for Freedom
  • Liberal Arts and the Professions
  • Past Initiatives
  • Pathways to the Liberal Arts
  • Press Releases
  • Quotes and Mentions
  • Special Projects
  • Staff News
  • Staff Writings
  • Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts
Showing 1 to 10 of 588 entries
description
The Fugitive Slave Act
07.14.2025 | Teagle in the News

The Fugitive Slave Act

Teagle president Andrew Delbanco discusses his book The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.

Read more >

Elon Freedom Scholars inspired to pursue ‘freedom through reading’
07.01.2025 | Teagle in the News

Elon Freedom Scholars inspired to pursue ‘freedom through reading’

The Elon Freedom Scholars Program, part of Teagle's Knowledge for Freedom initiative, brings college-bound students to campus for a residential experience where they to learn to be difference makers in their communities.

Read more >

Pace University Awarded $300K Teagle Foundation Grant to Launch NYC Civic Fellowship
07.01.2025 | Teagle in the News

Pace University Awarded $300K Teagle Foundation Grant to Launch NYC Civic Fellowship

With support from Teagle, Pace University is launching The City and the Sea: A New York City Fellowship in Civics and Public Service, an initiative that prepares undergraduates to become civic leaders in New York City.

Read more >

Elevating Students Success with New England Transfer Guarantee
05.29.2025 | Teagle in the News

Elevating Students Success with New England Transfer Guarantee

The New England Transfer Guarantee, supported by Teagle, has removed barriers to transfer in New England by streamlining the admissions process and clarifying the options available to eligible community college graduates.

Read more >

New Program Helps Students Prepare for a Good Life
05.29.2025 | Teagle in the News

New Program Helps Students Prepare for a Good Life

The University of Mississippi's Good Life program, part of the Knowledge for Freedom initiative, invites rural and first-generation students to campus to explore the role that humanities and civic engagement play in determining quality of life.

Read more >

The Connoisseur of Desire
05.29.2025 | Staff Writings

The Connoisseur of Desire

This new essay from Teagle president Andrew Delbanco marks the 100th anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby​.

Read more >

Designing Core Texts Courses for Today’s Students
05.22.2025 | Teagle in the News

Designing Core Texts Courses for Today’s Students

Mintz credits Cornerstone programs at Vanderbilt, Purdue and Austin Community College for leveraging the transformative potential of foundational texts to serve broad segments of their student bodies.

Read more >

ChatGPT Is a Gimmick
05.21.2025 | Teagle in the News

ChatGPT Is a Gimmick

In the age of AI, instructors like Ted Hadzi-Antich at Austin Community College continue to deeply engage students in discussion-based classes built around great books.

Read more >

A Peanut Farmer and Hasidic Rabbi Helped Build the Department of Education. Can Their Legacy Save It
05.20.2025 | Staff Writings

A Peanut Farmer and Hasidic Rabbi Helped Build the Department of Education. Can Their Legacy Save It

Senior Program Director Tamara Tweel discusses the history of the Department of Education and what motivated its creation.

Read more >

Talking life, philosophy, and basketball with Trey Kaufman-Renn and Professor Jan Cover
03.13.2025 | Teagle in the News

Talking life, philosophy, and basketball with Trey Kaufman-Renn and Professor Jan Cover

A Purdue student reflects on his path to philosophy, catalyzed by a Cornerstone course.

Read more >

FirstPrevious12345…59NextLast

Sign-up for Teagle E-news

Teagle's newsletter includes updates, insights from grantees, and teaching resources.

The Teagle Foundation
570 Lexington Avenue, 38th Floor
New York, NY 10022 US
212-373-1972
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
applicant/grantee login
© 2025.V2 All Rights Reserved. The Teagle Foundation