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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Connoisseur of Desire

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Pulitzer Prize winner Ilyon Woo visits Clemson as part of the Pathways Initiative speaker series

Clemson's Pathways Initiative, a Cornerstone program, brought Pulitzer Prize winner Ilyon Woo to campus to give a talk related to her new book Master Slave Husband Wife, one of the common readings assigned to first-year students.

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The Sympathetic Method

Senior Program Director Tamara Tweel examines the question of how people get to know one another, an urgent challenge at all levels of American education.

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Thanks For Being Here - Small College, Big Influence

This episode cites the improtance of seminar classrooms as our "best rehearsal spaces for democracy," quoting Teagle president Andrew Delbanco.

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College of Arts and Sciences Students Honored with Teagle Civic Impact Award for Research Contributi

Drexel University, a Teagle grantee, recently established the Teagle Civic Impact Award to honor student researchers for groundbreaking research that significantly contributes to the public good.

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The Hidden Utility of the Liberal Arts

Purdue's Cornerstone program is one example of an institution successfully "translating" the value of the liberal arts in a STEM-focused context.

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Bridgewater College offers summer program for local high school students

With support from Teagle, Bridgewater College is launching a new Knowledge for Freedom summer institute for underserved local high school students that will explore questions about freedom, democracy, and government.

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How Higher Education Can Win Back America

Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University, highlights Teagle's Knowledge for Freedom initiative for meaningfully engaging diverse students in questions of purpose and civic responsibility.

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Building Humanities Courses to Transform Students' Experience

In October 2024, faculty from across the country convened at Austin Community College to discuss how to start or expand impactful humanities courses as part of a general education curriculum. This piece gathers key takeaways from a panel of four Cornerstone faculty reflecting on how they built humanities courses that continue to be transformative for their students.

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Iowa Private Transfer Guarantee helps community college students further education

Thanks in part to Teagle grant support, Iowa community college students now have easier access to private colleges in the state.

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"'Big Questions' for General Education" with Andrew Delbanco

In this episode of the Liberal Arts Experience podcast, Teagle president Andrew Delbanco discusses the transformative potential of general education with Wesley Beal, assistant dean at Lyon College.

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Academic Freedom With and Without Academic Responsibility

Steven Mintz reflects on how Cornerstone programs have successfully developed rich lower-division humanities curricula that put meaning and purpose at the center of the college experience.

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Where the Humanities Are Thriving: Key Takeaways

In October 2024, The Chronicle of Higher Education convened an expert panel including Cornerstone faculty Melinda Zook and Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr. to share their insights on how the humanities are thriving in today's higher education climate. This piece gathers key takeaways from their advice on strengthening messaging, modernizing course offerings, and reviving interest in the liberal arts.

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Collaborative brings together community, private colleges to ease transfers

With support from Teagle, the Iowa Private Transfer Collaborative is making it easier for Iowa students to transfer from community colleges to private four-year institutions.

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2022 and 2023 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Citations

This October, President Biden awarded longtime Teagle board member Pauline Yu a 2022 National Humanities Medal. She served on the Foundation's Board of Directors from 2003 to 2024.

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Introduction to the Humanities: Human Horizons

Cornerstone faculty at Houston Community College offer an inside look at their course Intro to the Humanities: Human Horizons and share how it has impacted students at their institution.

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Purdue program works to revive liberal arts as key part of the college experience

As part of their Rethinking College series, Jeff Brown of PBS NewsHour spoke with faculty and students at two campuses participating in the Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative — Purdue University and Austin Community College — about how they are reviving the humanities as a key part of the college experience.

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New minor offers ‘Pathways in the humanities and social sciences’

With support from Teagle, Clemson is offering students a new minor with an emphasis on the close study of important works of thought and culture.

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New minor offers ‘Pathways in the humanities and social sciences’

With support from Teagle, Clemson's College of Arts and Humanities (CAH) has unveiled a new minor through its Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.

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An interview with Melinda Zook

Melinda Zook shares her perspective on Purdue's Cornerstone program and transformative texts.

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Teagle Foundation awards $250,000 to Arts & Sciences

With support from Teagle, the University of North Dakota is reimagining and developing new curriculum in the humanities, including a new minor in applied humanities.

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Going Deep with Eddie Glaude, Jr. on Informed Reflection

In the third episode of the five-part Kelly Corrigan Wonders "Shook by a Book" series (sponsored by Teagle), Kelly discusses the transformative impact of WEB Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk with Princeton professor, columnist for TIME, and frequent TV commentator Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr.

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What makes a college welcoming to transfer students?

Judy Niemi Johnson, assistant director of admissions and transfer for the Minnesota Private College Council (a Teagle grantee), presented stratgies for supporting transfer students at the National Association for College Admission Counseling's conference.

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A 'Cornerstone' and 'Hidden Gem': Purdue Liberal Arts Integration receives national recognition

Purdue's Cornerstone program has earned national recognition for its success in capturing and inspiring students.

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Elon Freedom Scholars program welcomes largest cohort to campus

Elon Freedom Scholars welcomed its largest class for their Knowledge for Freedom program focused on college preparation, career exploration and civic learning and engagement.

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ACTA Designates Purdue University’s Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program as a Hidden Gem for

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has recognized Purdue University's Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program as a "Hidden Gem," a program that guides students through a high-quality and coherent interdisciplinary education across the liberal arts.

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Going Deep with Charles Duhigg on Choice and Context

In the second episode of the five-part Kelly Corrigan Wonders "Shook by a Book" series (sponsored by Teagle), Kelly connects with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and bestselling author Charles Duhigg about a college reading assignment that made a lasting impact on his life.

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Artmaking is the Perfect Intersection for Making and Doing

CSU's course "The Perfect Intersection" is helping students explore artistic interests as part of the university's Cornerstone program, the Green and Gold initiative.

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Augustana receives Teagle grant to support first-year students and staff development

With grant support from Teagle, Augustana College is reimagining its first-year general education curriculum.

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Going Deep with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Finding Fulfillment

The first episode in the Kelly Corrigan Wonders "Shook by a Book" series (sponsored by Teagle) features an interview with Dr. Vivek Murthy, the Surgeon General, about Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist.

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Students First: Creating Transfer-Friendly Higher Education Pathways for Vermont

Four additional colleges have signed on to the Vermont Transfer Guarantee, supported by Teagle, creating additional clear pathways and support for transfer students.

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15 students complete humanities seminar at UTSA

Fifteen high school students participated in UTSA's Knowledge for Freedom program this summer, focused on the theme of migration and democracy.

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North Carolina’s revolutionary transfer portal forecasts a new national push

Funded in part by a grant from Teagle, a new platform will help students transfer credits to North Carolina colleges and universities and find a clear path to completing their degrees.

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Augustana awarded $25,000 Teagle Foundation grant to support first-year course, faculty development

With support from Teagle, Augustana College is revising their first-year general education curriculum and grounding it in transformative texts.

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Cal Maritime Culture and Communication Professors Secure $245,000 Teagle Foundation Grant for Innova

With support from Teagle, Cal Maritime will implement a new gen ed program designed to integrate humanities-based inquiry within their technical and professional curriculum.

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Ursuline College gets grant to revamp 'Rust Belt' courses

With support from Teagle, Ursuline College will reimagine its first-year composition two-course sequence and recontextualize Cleveland’s history through transformative texts.

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Community college to grad school: Driven by passion

Students who completed the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum and continued on to graduate school share resources and supports that helped them reach their goals.

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Invitations to Practice Democracy: How Campuses Can Reimagine Public Spaces to Inspire Constructive

This essay reflects on the vital role of colleges and universities as what Teagle president Andrew Delbanco calls "rehearsal spaces for democracy."

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Is a presidency, with all its challenges, still a dream job?

Teagle board member Mary Dana Hinton reflects on the vocation of college presidency and its challenges and rewards.

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Teaching Psychoanalysis as a Manual for Living

Harold Braswell discusses his experience teaching the course "Life: A User's Manual," part of Saint Louis University's Cornerstone: Learning for Living program.

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UC Santa Cruz colleges awarded planning grant from Teagle Foundation

With support from Teagle, UC Santa Cruz will develop a new first-year experience grounded in a common reading list of transformative texts.

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NCICU Receives $1.3M Grant to Partner with NCCCS to Streamline Transfer Pathways

With support from Teagle, NCICU is leveraging a new technology platform to streamline the transfer process for North Carolina students and reduce credit loss.

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A new program to teach and internalize American civics

In this episode, faculty from SUNY Geneseo discuss their new Cornerstone program focused on American civics.

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Georgia State University receives award for their Teagle-funded liberal arts program

Georgia State University received a Regents' Award from the University System of Georgia for their work on Implementing Experiential, Project-Based Interdisciplinary Curriculum (EPIC) in the Liberal Arts.

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America Must Face Its Civic Crisis

The Teagle Foundation is helping a growing number of colleges and universities to reinvigorate civics education and help students learn from the nation's past in order to address today's sociopolitical challenges.

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AI or not, students must still learn to think for themselves

Purdue University's Cornerstone: Learning for Living program gives students necessary skills to read closely and critically, broaden their outlooks, and communicate their ideas—especially in the age of AI.

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Lyon College receives $175,000 grant from Teagle Foundation

Lyon College has received a grant from Teagle to launch an innovative core curriculum and a new minor in medical humanities.

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What do college students learn, anyway?

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

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Deep Reading Will Save Your Soul

The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, a Teagle grantee, is cited as a reponse to a "hunger for serious study," offering students an essential opportunity to learn by reading great books.

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Vermont transfer guarantee smooths path from CCV to 4-year degree

As part of the New England Transfer Guarantee, supported by Teagle, four Vermont colleges and universities have committed to simplify transfer for students who earn associate degrees at the Community College of Vermont.

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Community colleges, many of Iowa's private colleges, form transfer agreement

Fifteen Iowa community college presidents convened to sign the Iowa Private Transfer Guarantee with the Iowa Private Transfer Collaborative, a Teagle grantee improving access to transfer across the state.

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Helios Program celebrates two years of success

The Helios program at University of Wisconsin-Platteville, supported by Teagle, doubled its partcipation in its second year and gave more than 1,400 students a more meaningful experience in the general education curriculum.

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Gettysburg College to bestow Honorary Degrees at Class of 2024 Commencement

Teagle president Andrew Delbanco will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Gettysburg College this May, recognizing his outstanding contributions to society.

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A Hell of a Performance

Teagle president Andrew Delbanco reviews The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946 and reflects on Norman Mailer's life as a writer.

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Pace University Receives $25,000 Teagle Foundation Grant to Establish Fellowship Program

Pace University was awarded a $25,000 Teagle grant to establish an undergraduate fellowship to create the next generation of leaders working on the governance of New York City waterways.

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A change in direction for transfer success

Minnesota transfer students share their experiences and highlight what supported their success.

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The Unique Skill Set of a Transfer Specialist

Judy Niemi Johnson, assistant director of admissions and transfer for the Minnesota Private College Council (a Teagle grantee), breaks down the complex training required to support transfer students.

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Education for a life of purpose

Teagle supported Stanford's reimagined first-year curriculum COLLEGE, which provides students with a shared intellectual framework to discuss diverse views and encourages students to examine their responsibility to the world.

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The Great American Novels

Teagle president Andrew Delbanco contributed to the Atlantic's list of Great American Novels, highlighting Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale and Paula Fox's Desperate Characters.

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A Road Well-Traveled

The New England Transfer Guarantee, funded by the Teagle Foundation, shows promising outcomes two years into the program.

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High Schools Will Learn about Freedom and Citizenship through Kent State's New Teagle Foundation Pro

Kent State's Liberation Learners, supported by the Teagle Foundation, will enable promising underserved high school seniors in Northeast Ohio to increase their college preparedness, civic engagement, and sense of belonging.

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The Joys of ‘Leading From the Margins’

Teagle board member and Hollins University president Mary Dana HInton discusses her new book Leading From the Margins: College Leadership From Unexpected Places​.

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Looking for meaning in college? Try discussing a great book.

Teagle President Andrew Delbanco stresses higher education's role in helping students think deeply and collectively about life’s most profound questions. 

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Making Space for the Humanities Off Campus

The Brooklyn Institue for Social Research, a Teagle grantee, offers financially accessible humanities classes in unconventional settings.

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Understanding civics, from the classroom to the city

Yale hosted the inaugural KFF Faculty Institute, which brought together faculty and program directors from 30+ campuses to share ideas on how to launch, refine, and strengthen their courses.

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The Real Problem With American Universities

Teagle board member Brian Rosenberg discusses the need for structural changes at American colleges and universities.

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Teaching as Transmission, Transaction or Transformation

Teagle's Knowledge for Freedom initative offers a model for transformational liberal arts education that is scaleable and effective.

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Reimagining the Liberal Arts and Humanities

Teagle's Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative is part of a widespread effort to reimagine the liberal arts in higher education, thus far infusing humanities courses into the general curriculum at 60 colleges and universities.

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Professors Win Inaugural Ignite Instructor of the Year Awards

Cornerstone faculty Paul Lynch and Harold Braswell won Saint Louis University's inaugural Ignite Instructor of the Year Awards for their seminars "Life: A User's Manual" and "Writing as a Way of Life."

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Teagle Foundation awards URI grant to support urban high school students

With support from Teagle, URI is launching Forgiveness is Freedom Academy: A Knowledge for Freedom Program, which will immerse rising high school seniors in the liberal arts.

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Syracuse Speaks: growing the knowledge of the Indigenous Cultures

A new class at Onondaga Community College, part of Teagle's Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, focuses on the history of the people who settled Central New York with an emphasis on indigenous texts.

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5 Practical Steps to Address Transfer Barriers

With support from the Teagle Foundation, the Minnesota Private College Council is taking concrete steps to create transfer-receptive campuses across the state.

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Community College Is the Future of Liberal Education

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.

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CHASS Receives $350K Grant to Implement Humanities-Based Certificate Program

NC State's College of the Humanities and Social Sciences received a two-year, $350,000 grant from Teagle to implement an innovative humanities-based certificate program, Advanced Critical and Creative Thinking (ACCT).

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Languages, Literatures and Cultures Professors Awarded $300,000 to Create a Cornerstone Initiative:

With support from Teagle, UMass Amherst is adding two new gen ed courses designed to build a common intellectual experience and community.

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The Enemy Within: Former College Presidents Offer Warnings

Teagle board member Brian Rosenberg focuses on the need for transformational change in colleges and universities in his new book, Whatever It Is, I'm Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education​.

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Higher Education as Its Own Worst Enemy

Teagle board member Brian Rosenberg discusses the need for transformational change in higher education.

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Higher Ed's Ruinous Resistance to Change

Teagle board member Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College, discusses the financial and educational models that stymie transformational change in higher education.

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Gen Z Is Ready to Talk. Are Professors Ready to Listen?

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

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SLU Continues Jesuit Mission Through University Core With $250,000 Education Grant

Saint Louis University will lead a new Cornerstone: Learning for Living program anchored in transformative texts and geared toward STEM students.

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College Students: School Is Not Your Job

The Teagle-supported Great Questions Seminar at Austin Community College offers a humanistic alternative to college careerism.

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Schools Should Not Be Factories

Tamara Tweel, Program Director for Civic Initiatives, discusses the history of school prayer and how it informs the question: What is the highest purpose of education and what must we do as a society to orient each school day to reach that highest purpose?

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By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars

COLLEGE, Stanford's Cornerstone: Learning for Living program, was scaled to the entire incoming class with support from Teagle and the NEH.

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Catawba College receives $75,000 Grant supporting The Pursuit

Teagle awarded Catawba College a $75,000 grant to support The Pursuit, a humanities program for first-year students. 

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Community Leaders Visit Columbia's Flourishing Double Discovery Center College Prep Program for Loca

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, elected officials, and local leaders in education made a classroom visit to the Double Discovery Center, which is home to the program model for Teagle's Knowledge for Freedom initiative. 

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College Citizens High School Program Completes Second Year

The Teagle-funded College Citizens program at the University of Dallas, which invites high school students to explore questions of responsibility and community, celebrated its second year.

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The liberal arts are alive and well in community colleges

Teagle grantee Austin Community College is leading the way in liberal education through its Great Questions Seminar.

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Dick Ravitch’s legacy lives at CCNY: The new Moynihan Center at City College carries on the ideals o

Dick Ravitch played an instrumental leadership role in the success of the Moynihan Center at CCNY, in partnership with philanthropic organizations including Teagle.

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Simpson College, along with 16 other Iowa colleges and universities, received a three-year grant fro

A grant from the Tealge Foundation is supporting curriculuar-bridge building and improving the transfer student experience in Iowa.

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NKU receives $250,000 ‘Cornerstone: Learning for Living’ grant, largest of any KY public institution

Teagle has awarded NKU the largest “Cornerstone: Learning for Living” grant of any public institution in the Commonwealth to implement a new general education program.

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NKU awarded grant to enhance gen-ed experience for students

Northern Kentucky University has been awarded a grant from Teagle to implement a new gen ed program impacting 30% of its undergraduate community.

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NKU awarded $250K grant to enhance gen-ed experience

With support from Teagle, Northern Kentucky University is reimagining its approach to gen ed with a thematic, faculty-led curriculum.

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NKU Awarded $250K Grant to Enhance Gen-Ed Experience for Students

Northern Kentucky University has been awarded a grant from Teagle to implement the STAR Program, a range of introductory writing courses that will prepare students to be "flexible thinkers" and "creative problem solvers."

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Teagle Foundation/NEH grant awarded to Transylvania to enhance humanities curriculum

Support from the Teagle Foundation is helping Transylvania students to grapple with complex questions, make meaningful connections on campus, and gain confidence in discussing transformative texts.

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Grant will improve transfer experience to Wartburg for Iowa community college students

Wartburg College is one of 17 colleges and universities making liberal arts education more accessibile to transfer students in Iowa with support from the Teagle Foundation.

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Grant improves transfer student experience

Cornell College is making liberal arts education more accessibile to transfer students in Iowa with support from the Teagle Foundation.

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Trouble the Waters: Freedom Scholars Symposium celebrates achievements of inaugural cohort

The Elon Freedom Scholars program, part of Teagle's Knowledge for Freedom initiative, celebrated its inaugural cohort of 12 local high school students and rising leaders.

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The Humanities Aren’t Hurting Everywhere

At Lehman College, home to a Teagle-funded transformational text program, enrollment in humanities majors has grown over the last decade.

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Great Books Can Heal Our Divided Campuses

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco makes the case for why colleges need more programs where students of different backgrounds can wrestle together with the big questions posed the humanities in this essay for the Wall Street Journal.

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Colleges and Universities Nationwide Awarded Grants for Novel Humanities-Focused Programs

The Teagle Foundation’s grants for the 2023 fiscal year reflect commitment to broadening access to liberal arts and supporting humanities’ power to shape thoughtful, engaged participants in democratic process.

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Defining Liberal Education—and How to Advertise It

Paul Stern dicussed Ursinus College's Common Intellectual Experience (CIE) course and core curriculum, developed with support from the Teagle Foundation, at a colloquium on liberal education.

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Inside the fight to save American college from runaway careerism

Teagle grantee Ursinus College, known for its Common Intellectual Experience program, is cited as "an innovator in the renewal of the liberal arts."

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Transfer Pathways Steer Students and Institutions to Undergraduate Success

The Teagle Foundation is helping to create new transfer pathways for liberal arts students in 13 states, a change to which university leaders attribute an uptick in transfers in New England, North Carolina, and beyond.

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The Meaning of Success

More than 3,000 Austin Community College students have been impacted by the Teagle-supported Great Questions Seminar, a discussion-based study of transformative texts.

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It’s Time to Act on Community College Transfer Programs

The Teagle Foundation is helping to create statewide transfer pathways that streamline course mobility and improve opportunities for community college students.

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Higher Ed’s Other Obligation - with Dr. Andrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation

Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco discussed the future of higher ed as a guest on The EdUp Experience.

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Thinking toward a thriving planet: Notes from the field

Colorado State University students engage with enduring questions in the context of a vulnerable planet through the seminar "Thinking Toward a Thriving Planet," which is part of the Teagle-supported Green and Gold Initative.

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Da Vinci was a Double Major

Roosevelt Montás, who serves on the advisory council for Cornerstone: Learning for Living, makes the case for weaving the humanities and math/sciences together in college. This approach is underway at Purdue University through the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program.

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Shakespeare, Still Our Contemporary

Steven Mintz offers Cornerstone programs at Purdue University and Austin Community College as promising examples of core curriculum with broader cultural literacy and a focus on classic texts' enduring questions.

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Encouraging Conversations About Enduring Questions

A Cornerstone: Living for Learning program at Onandaga Community College offers a novel and promising approach to general education grounded in enduring questions.

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College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Second Edition

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's book College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, originally published in 2012, was re-released on April 18 by Princeton University Press in a Second Edition that includes a new chapter on college after the pandemic.

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Washington College Receives Teagle Foundation Grant

Visions of Freedom in America, a Knowledge for Freedom program at Washington College, brings high school students together to explore transformational texts by civic leaders.

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President Biden Announces Key Appointments to Boards and Commissions

Pauline Yu, who serves on the Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors, has been named to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

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A Renaissance from Below

Through impactful discussion-based courses like the Great Questions Seminar and other Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs, community colleges can help lead a humanistic revival in higher education.

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Work Zones Ahead! Michigan is paving new transfer pathways.

Support from the Teagle Foundation is creating pathways for community college students in Michigan to transfer to independent colleges and universities.

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Gen Ed: Its Past, Present and Possible Future

Universities can create a common intellectual experience for students through general education programs like the Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs at Purdue University and Austin Community College.

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Ted Hadzi-Antich, Austin Community College – Asking the Great Questions at Community Colleges

Ted Hadzi-Antich, associate professor of government at Austin Community College, discusses The Great Questions, a faculty founded and lead approach to teaching and learning at the community college that centers the discussion-based study of transformative-texts and the Great Questions they raise in supportive and collaborative classrooms.

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The Defenders of Liberal Education Are Destroying It

Roosevelt Montás, who serves on the Advisory Council of the Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, argues that American democracy cannot survive without engaged citizens who are equipped to participate in the country's ongoing conversation about freedom and equality.

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Are the Humanities in Crisis?

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco appears on PBS to speak with Michel Martin about the importance of reversing the humanities decline.

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IUP Big Ideas program presenting Roosevelt Montas, 'Rescuing Socrates' author

Roosevelt Montás, who serves on the Advisory Council of the Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, will speak at a "Big Ideas" event at IUP about how great books transformed his life and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds.

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Teaching in an Age of 'Militant Apathy'

In the Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs at Purdue University and more than 25 other colleges, students read classic works that ask the big questions in life, find joy and beauty in poetry, and engage in small group classes taught by seasoned professors.

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The Teagle Foundation Builds Diversity and Access in Liberal Arts

Under the leadership of Andrew Delbanco, the Teagle Foundation is working for greater diversity and greater access. Teagle programs support students and institutions asking humanistic questions about community, freedom, and purpose.

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What five students learned about transferring

Five students who successfully transferred through MPCC's transfer guarantee share their experiences of the process and tips for future transfer students.

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On Being Erased

Mary Dana Hinton, who serves on the Board of the Teagle Foundation, is a co-author of this essay, which argues that Florida’s decision to reject a new Advanced Placement class on African American studies raises unsettling questions.

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Community college students’ bachelor degree dreams getting farther out of reach

Transfer admission guarantees funded by the Teagle Foundation help community college students in New England and Minnesota to enroll in four-year institutions. 

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AAC&U Annual Meeting Explore Liberal Education’s Role in Preserving Democracy

Speaking on a panel at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) annual meeting in San Francisco, Teagle president Andrew Delbanco said, "The humanities are about raising questions to which there are no clear right or wrong answers."

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NEH Chair on Initiatives to Grapple with History

NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe discusses Teagle president Andrew Delbanco's Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which showed how the humanities can help us to assess difficult topics like reparations. 

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Bachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape — and it’s getting wo

Funded by the Teagle Foundation, transfer admission guarantees in New England and Minnesota are helping community college students transfer to four-year institutions. 

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Bachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape

The New England Transfer Guarantee has helped an average of about 100 students per semester transfer in Massachusetts, 40 per semester in Connecticut, and eight per semester in Rhode Island. Twelve Minnesota private colleges in October also launched a transfer admission guarantee for community college students.

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Bachelor's degree dreams get farther out of reach for one group of students

Transfer guarantee programs in New England and Minnesota are helping community college students transfer to four-year institutions. 

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2022 Jefferson Lecture

Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco delivered the NEH's 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, speaking on "The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future."

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UMass Amherst Center for Philosophy and Children Receives $250,000 Grant

Question Everything, a Knowledge for Freedom program, brings high school students from the Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts, areas to UMass Amherst for philosophical reflection and critical thinking. 

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The Work of Moral Imagination

Purpose and Power: Women Shaping History, a Knowledge for Freedom program, will bring a cohort of high school women to the Hollins University campus during the summer of 2023 for an intensive two-week seminar to explore questions about freedom and agency with an emphasis on the lives of women.

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Reset this: Change how we teach civics in America

With support from an Education for American Civic Life grant, an interdisciplinary civics course at DePaul University frames civics as a way of thinking about how people live together in community. Students reconnect with each other, acknowledge their shared humanity, and work together to address the problems facing the nation.

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AI and the Future of Undergraduate Writing

Purdue Professor Melinda Zook, a member of the Cornerstone: Learning for Living advisory board, says new technology like ChatGPT is much less of a threat when courses are small and built around frequent feedback and discussion focused on the value and purpose of the liberal arts.

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Accessible, Affordable, and Flexible Higher Education for Transfer Students in Ohio

14 independent colleges and universities and 11 community colleges are paving the way for accessible, affordable, and flexible higher education for Ohio students. Watch the video of the signing ceremony at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.

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Happiness class hooks students on more than a feeling

Students at Colorado State University are taking a philosophy course on happiness as part of a Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant that allows CSU students to explore important questions centered around humanistic concerns.

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Words to Live By

Steven Mintz says that Teagle President Andrew Delbanco's essay about reparations in The Washington Post offers a powerful and inspiring vision of what we can do to move toward a fairer, juster, more inclusive society.

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The College of the Future, Part 2

Improving transfer pathways between two-year and private four-year institutions could enhance the financial health of four-year colleges while raising baccalaureate attainment for community college students, says Loni Bordoloi Pazich, program director at the Teagle Foundation. The Teagle, Arthur Vining Davis, and Davis Educational Foundations have been collaborating to establish transfer admission guarantees across several states.

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Higher Ed's Prestige Paralysis

Brian Rosenberg, who serves on the board of the Teagle Foundation, discusses the role that prestige plays in higher education. 

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Reparations for Black Americans can work if they are reimagined

In an opinion piece adapted from his Jefferson Lecture, Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco argues that reparations broadly imagined can be a force for unity and reconciliation.

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Putting Data to Work for Program Improvement and Student Success

The 470 unique students who transferred through the New England Transfer Guarantee between spring 2021 and spring 2022 have an impressive track record of academic achievement, are consistently being awarded significant institutional scholarships, tend to enroll full-time upon transfer to participating institutions, and are, in various ways, diverse.

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RIT’s College of Liberal Arts receives grant to enhance philosophy and communication offerings

A Cornerstone: Learning for Living implementation grant to Rochester Institute of Technology will satisfy students’ career-related needs while also equipping them to be civically engaged, empathically attentive thinkers.

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Catawba College brings writer, director, producer of Reggie: A Millennial Depression Comedy to campu

Students in Catawba’s The Pursuit program, funded by a Cornerstone: Learning for Living planning grant, discuss the hero's journey with writer, director, and producer Jacques Belliveau.

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Entrevista sobre la subvención "Cornerstone" de la Teagle Foundation

Check out this interview with Project Directors at the University of Puerto Rico who are using a Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant to create a common intellectual experience around shared texts.

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Private colleges offer new help for transfer students

The Transfer Admission Guarantee makes it easier for community college students to earn a four-year degree at private colleges in Minnesota by promoting transparent processes and building relationships among faculty.

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Campus Buy-In and Building Consensus for Change

This Cornerstone: Learning for Living workshop explores strategies for building student interest in, and administrative support for, efforts to re-center the humanities in general education.

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What can reparations for slavery look like in the United States? One man has ideas

Teagle President Andrew Delbanco joined NPR's All Things Considered to discuss what reparations in the U.S. have looked like in the past and what they could look like in the future.

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Excellence in Undergraduate Education Must Include Equity, Says Influential Group

The 2030 Boyer Commission defines excellence in terms of equity, highlighting the Cornerstone: Learning for Living program at Purdue University as a blueprint for others to emulate because all undergraduates receive an education that blends career preparation, the humanities, and a strong foundation of general education.

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2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities

Teagle President Andrew Delbanco delivered the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington, D.C. on October 19. NEH’s Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. A recording of the lecture, entitled “The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future,” is available to watch here.

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New Haven's Henry Seyue Reads Hughes' 'I, Too' At Jefferson Lecture

Henry Seyue, an alumnus of Citizens, Thinkers, Writers, a Knowledge for Freedom program at Yale University, read the Langston Hughes’ poem "I, Too" at the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which was delivered by Teagle President Andrew Delbanco. 

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New Haven man, 23, to read poem at national lecture series in D.C.

Henry Segue, a Knowledge for Freedom program alumnus, was chosen to read a poem at the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities because he exemplifies how a grounding in liberal arts enables us to study humanity’s deepest questions, wrestle with difficult topics and serve as thoughtful, engaged citizens.

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Tracing America's Long Debate About Reparations For Slavery

In this interview with NPR's Diane Rehm, Teagle President Andrew Delbanco traces the history of the debate about reparations, and tells Diane he hopes understanding our history can help inform the country’s choices about its future.

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Indebted

Quoting from Teagle President Andrew Delbanco's recent piece in the The New York Review of Books, which surveys universities reckoning with their historical ties to slavery, this article examines the University of Pennsylvania. 

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Non-traditional students share their perspectives

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Open Questions with Andrew Delbanco

In this interview with National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chair Shelly C. Lowe (Navajo), Teagle President Andrew Delbanco talks about liberal arts education, Herman Melville, slavery in American history, and his plans for the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which he will deliver on October 19, 2022.

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Andrew Delbanco: Appreciations from Former Students

Five former students—James Bundy, Janine de Novais, Rachel Friedman, Roosevelt Montás, Deval Patrick—offer their praise for Andrew Delbanco, Teagle President and the 2022 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities.

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The HELIOS Program at UW-Platteville

The Cornerstone: Learning for Living project directors at UW-Platteville talk with their Provost about the HELIOS program, a common intellectual experience through a gateway course anchored in core texts and a more coherent experience of general education through a certificate in integrated liberal arts.

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College Considerations with Columbia's Andy Delbanco

Teagle President Andrew Delbanco talks with podcast host Kelly Corrigan about life at college and the link between education and democracy. 

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Building Transparent Statewide Transfer Pathways

A new op-ed from Loni Bordoloi Pazich, Program Director at The Teagle Foundation, argues that streamlined and transparent statewide transfer pathways between community colleges and independent colleges benefit the receiving institutions, sending institutions and, most importantly, community college students.

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Innovating at Scale

Funded by the Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, the Great Questions program at Austin Community College is a much needed step towards ensuring that all students receive a genuinely democratic education.

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IUP to receive $200,000 for “Big Idea” Program

The “Big Ideas: Transformative Culture and the Professions” program at IUP will integrate and embed the liberal arts into student career preparation.

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Academy of Civic Life Hosts Inaugural Summer Program for Underrepresented High School Students

The Academy of Civic Life (ACL) at Stony Brook University offers high school students a real college experience, living on campus and attending a rigorous three-week seminar.

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NKU awarded grant to revitalize the humanities in gen ed

A Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant to Northern Kentucky University will energize the humanities in general education through transformative texts. 

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Teagle/NEH grant provides support to innovate in the undergraduate core curriculum

Funded by Cornerstone: Learning for Living, the Green and Gold Initiative at CSU is a cohort-based program centered on transformative texts that encourages interdisciplinary thinking about humanity’s most enduring and pressing questions.

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Freedom and Citizenship: High Schoolers in Upper Manhattan Elevate Their Voices for Change

Four students share their experiences at Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship program in summer 2022. 

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Reimagining Student Affairs

Teagle board member Mary Dana Hinton, who is the President of Hollins University, writes that supporting students requires universities to reimagine their functions holistically, with an eye toward inclusion. 

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NSU Receives Grant from The Teagle Foundation and NEH

Through a Teagle grant, Norfolk State University is creating a common intellectual experience through anchor texts, which will reach 25 percent of the incoming class, and launching a certificate in African American Studies.

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Philanthropy: Its Power and Influence

Citing Teagle as one of the "smaller foundations that punch far beyond their weight class," Steven Mintz argues that foundations can be true drivers of academic innovation, working to give all students access to the same kind of learning opportunities. 

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Expanding Access to Transfer Pathways

With Teagle funding, the New England Transfer Guarantee will expand access to guaranteed transfer pathways in three additional states: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Eligible community college graduates will be able to transfer directly to participating colleges and universities in their states.

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Bronx Students Have New ‘Visions of the Good’ After Fordham Summer Program

At a new Knowledge for Freedom summer program at Fordham called “Visions of the Good in the Bronx,” sixteen students from Bronx high schools spent two weeks learning about philosophy, college life, and more.

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Northern Kentucky University first in state to receive national planning grant for general education

North Kentucky University is the first in the state to receive a national planning grant for general education. The program, Becoming a STAR, is a faculty-led initiative to energize the humanities and demonstrate their relevance to all undergraduates.

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Penn State Berks faculty receive grant to weave humanities into STEM majors

With a Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant, Penn State Berks will implement the Keystone Certificate on six other campuses, allowing students to engage with transformative texts and meet general education requirements. 

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Penn State Berks faculty receive grant to weave humanities into STEM majors

With a Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant, Penn State Berks will implement the Keystone Certificate on six other campuses, allowing students to engage with transformative texts and meet general education requirements. 

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Andrew Delbanco is named this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

Andrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

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Andrew Delbanco Named the 2022 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

Andrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

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Catawba awarded $25,000 grant supporting pursuit scholarship

A Cornerstone: Learning for Living planning grant to Catawba College will support The Pursuit, which introduces Catawba students to the humanities through transformative texts and encourages engagement with big questions about happiness and purpose. 

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Catawba College receives $25,000 grant supporting The Pursuit

Catawba College received a $25,000 Cornerstone: Learning for Living planning grant to support The Pursuit, which introduces Catawba students to the humanities through transformative texts.

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New humanities certificate offers themed pathways for students

With support from the Teagle Foundation, U-M Flint is debuting an innovative Certifiacate in Humanistic Inquiry in the Liberal Arts & Sciences that will serve as a pathway for students to complete a portion of their general education program.

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Cassidy Hutchinson and Greek tragedy show that courage is rare and cowardice more common

Rachel Hadas, who serves on the advisory council for Cornerstone: Learning for Living, meditates on the role of courage in Greek mythology and contemporary politics.

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Teagle Foundation and CCNY’s Colin Powell School announce new fellowship

The Teagle Foundation and the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York announce a new fellowship program for undergraduate students to provide the tools and hands-on experience they need to become the next generation of civic leaders in New York City.

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Endowed by Slavery

Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco examines the question of what higher education owes to Black Americans and how institutions might move beyond​ acknowledging their ties to slavery​ and leverage their capacities for research, teaching, and service to community in order to improve public health, precollege education, and the supply of affordable housing. ​

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy's Grants Roundup

On a list of recent grants, The Chronicle of Philanthropy notes the Teagle Foundation's $3.9 million to community colleges, research universities, and nonprofit educational organizations to expand access to liberal-arts education.

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The Teagle Foundation Announces Nearly $4 Million in New Grants for Liberal Arts Education

The Teagle Foundation, which works to strengthen and broaden access to liberal arts education, announced $3,940,600 in new grants. These grants, awarded to a range of institutions across the country, from community colleges to research universities as well as nonprofit educational organizations, advance the foundation’s efforts to engage students of all backgrounds with the liberal arts. 

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When Privileged Students Protest

Former Teagle grantee Eboo Patel, the founder and president of Interfaith America (formerly Interfaith Youth Core), reflects on a student protest that he witnessed at Sarah Lawrence College. Patel mentions Teagle president Andrew Delbano's book, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be.

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What’s Really Wrong With Our Flawed System of Elite College Admissions

One way to expand educational opportunity is through precollege summer programs like the Teagle Foundation's Knowledge for Freedom initiative, which exposes diverse, highly talented, and driven high school students to college faculty and meaningful college-level research, writing, and discussion.

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Dickinson’s “Knowledge for Freedom” seminar aims to give HS seniors timely lessons through history

Funded by a Knowledge for Freedom initiative grant, Dickinson College’s House Divided Project, which examines the Civil War and Reconstruction, is hosting a college-level seminar for high school seniors to explore questions of freedom, democracy and self-government. The free, three-week program includes trips to Washington D.C., Gettysburg and the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg. It’s aimed at low-income and first generation college-bound students.

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Third-Way Civics

Funded by the Teagle Foundation and anchored at the Minnesota Humanities Center, Third-Way Civics responds to a growing desire among students for a democratic education that positions them for economic success but also prepares them for lives of public purpose and productive citizenship.

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Do the Great Books Hold the Keys to Success?

An interview with Roosevelt Montás, author of Rescuing Socrates, on why liberal education is more important than ever. Montás is a Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and the Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.

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Can Alondra Nelson Remake the Government’s Approach to Science and Tech?

Alondra Nelson, Ph.D., the first Black woman to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, is remaking the role of OSTP director. With a policy profile ranging from AI ethics to STEM education, she considers what advances in science and tech are for, and who is served by them. Nelson is a former board member of the Teagle Foundation.

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Freedom Scholars program selects inaugural cohort of high school students

Funded by a Knowledge for Freedom grant, 15 inaugural Freedom Scholars will complete a two-week, intensive, residential experience at Elon for the rising seniors from the Alamance-Burlington School System this summer followed by a year of programming and college application support.

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NACU Podcast: Why College is About More Than Getting a Job

Andrew Delbanco, president of The Teagle Foundation, talks about the importance of humanities for a democratic society.

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Anchors in the Storm—University Leaders Consider the Pandemic’s Lessons

This article about the pandemic's lessons for universities quotes Andrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation, on inequality in higher education.

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Why the Great Books Still Matter

Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, makes the case for the liberal arts.

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UD’s College Citizens Program to serve first-gen DFW high school seniors

In July, the University of Dallas (UD) will host its first Knowledge for Freedom program, "College Citizens," which will allow twelve rising high school seniors from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to spend three weeks at UD, taking a liberal arts interdisciplinary class and experiencing life on a college campus for free.

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Enough With the Culture Wars

Supported by a Teagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant, Stanford's Civic, Liberal and Global Education program (COLLEGE for short) creates a shared intellectual experience for first-year students. COLLEGE is designed to engage all entering students, whose interests range widely across disciplines, by confronting them with existential questions about education and democracy.

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Elon Launches Freedom & Democracy Summer Program for High School Students

Funded by a $300,000 Knowledge for Freedom initiative grant, an interdisciplinary team of professors at Elon University are launching a free, two-week, philosophy-centric residential summer program on democracy and civic engagement for underserved students entering their senior year of high school.

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Led by CICU, Independent Colleges Partner to Improve Transfer for Community College Students

The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York (CICU) has been awarded a $50,000 planning grant from The Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to create new transfer pathways into the liberal arts for students graduating from community colleges across the state.

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Better transfer routes between private and community colleges an underutilized path to equity

Read an interview with one of the authors of Ithaka S+R's new playbook, a resource to advance the goals of Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts, an initiative co-sponsored by the Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to develop statewide transfer pathways from community colleges to independent colleges in 20 states.

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Strengthening pathways between private, community colleges important

Ithaka S+R's new playbook is a resource to advance the goals of Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts, an initiative co-sponsored by the Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to develop statewide transfer pathways from community colleges to independent colleges in 20 states.

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New Playbook About Transfer Pathways at Independent Colleges

Read more about Ithaka S+R's new playbook, a resource to advance the goals of Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts, an initiative co-sponsored by the Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to develop statewide transfer pathways from community colleges to independent colleges in 20 states.

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New Playbook Details How Independent Colleges Can Build Statewide Transfer Pathways to Reduce Equity

The Playbook for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts: How to Design and Implement Statewide Pathways from Community Colleges to Independent Colleges is a resource to advance the goals of Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts.

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Renowned professor, social critic to deliver fifth annual Lester Lectures

Andrew Delbanco, Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University and president of the Teagle Foundation, will present three lectures on the theme “What Do Our Colleges and Universities Owe to Black Americans?” at Mercer University on March 24-25. All lectures are free and open to the public.

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Rosemont’s Business Program Seniors Prototype Using Designing Your Life to Develop Capstone Project

In the business program at Rosemont College, Teagle funding is helping undergraduates apply the design thinking process so that each student’s final capstone project becomes meaningful and relevant to them individually as the starting prototype of their post-graduate career.

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Philosopher Wins $300K Grant For “Good Life” Project With Bronx Teens

A $300,000 Knowledge for Freedom initiative grant to Fordham University will fund a three week summer bridge program in philosophy for fifteen high school students from the Bronx.

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Community College Scholars Share How to Make an Equitable Classroom

Learn how a Teagle grant is helping Colorado community colleges to streamline curriculum and strengthen pedagogy in mathematics.

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Fordham Launches ‘Visions of the Good’ for Bronx High School Students

A three-week summer program called "Visions of the Good in the Bronx" at Fordham University, funded by a $300,000 Knowledge for Freedom grant from The Teagle Foundation, will allow high school students from the Bronx to contemplate big philosophical questions, explore a college campus, and receive college application help.

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Building a Bridge to Higher Education from Michigan Community Colleges

A Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts initiative grant to the Michigan Community College Association (MCCA) and Michigan Independent Colleges & Universities (MICU) will be used to improve the transfer process from community colleges to four-year independent institutions.

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The Pandemic’s Silver Lining for Faculty

With Teagle funding, the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty encourages institutions to better support non-tenure-track faculty, reducing the precarity that contingent faculty face.

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Oh, the humanities: Can these colleges help save tradition in higher education?

The Cornerstone: Living for Learning initiative, which makes a rigorous liberal education accessible to every student, is flourishing at Purdue University, American University, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Stanford University, and SUNY Onondaga Community College.

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How America’s broken undergraduate education system can be fixed

Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, is quoted in a piece about how student learning needs to be reimagined.

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How Humanities Play a Vital Role for Community College Students

A profile of the impact and importance of the "Great Questions" course at Austin Community College. It’s a humanities-based, student-centered discussion class, where classic texts are connected with the students' modern lives.

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In 1961, MLK taught a college class. Its syllabus might be contentious today

Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, discusses the "Social Philosophy I" course that Martin Luther King Jr. taught at Morehouse College in 1961.

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Brian Rosenberg on How the Humanities End—and Might Be Saved with Brendan Boyle

Brian Rosenberg, who serves on Teagle's board, talks about the value of the humanities in American higher education, especially for historically underserved students. He highlights Teagle's Cornerstone: Living for Learning and Knowledge for Freedom initiatives.

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The Odyssey of Roosevelt Montás

This review of Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montás calls it a valuable and thoughtful book that makes a contribution to the ongoing debate over the past, present, and future of liberal-arts education in the United States. Montás is a Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.

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Core curriculum: A case for the influence of four key thinkers

This review of Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montás calls it refreshing and nuanced, heartfelt and humane. Montás is a Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.

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An Ode to The Core Curriculum

Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, argues in favor of teaching the classics to everyone—especially marginalized students—and talks about how the "Great Books" influenced his life.

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President Biden Announces OSTP Leadership

Alondra Nelson, Ph.D., former board member of the Teagle Foundation, will serve as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

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The University Crisis

Andrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation, discusses the impact of Covid-19 on the future of higher education.

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Honors College Grant to Aid Underprivileged High-Schoolers

A $25,000 Knowledge for Freedom planning grant will support a three-week symposium titled “One Person Can Change the World” for underprivileged high school juniors in Broward County, Florida.

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Great books are still great

Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, writes that he did not need to be rich, privileged, or cultured to find something in great literature that spoke to the deepest sense of his own being. Since 2009, he has been introducing low-income high school students to intellectual traditions inspired by Socrates. Old classics still have the power to move and transform young people.

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Great Books, Graduate Students, and the Value of Fun in Higher Education

Leonard Cassuto joins in the generalist-versus-specialist debate inspired by Rescuing Socrates, a new book by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.

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A Reckoning in Boston

This 80-minute documentary tells the story of two students in the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a program with funding from The Teagle Foundation that offers free college humanities classes to low-income adults. A Reckoning in Boston will remain available on the PBS video app until February 16.

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General Education and the Humanities

Teagle Program Director Loni Bordoloi Pazich and Senior Program Officer Annie W. Bezbatchenko highlight four of the more than thirty institutions that are drawing on their institutional strengths and priorities to embed the humanities in general education as part of the Cornerstone: Living for Learning grant program. 

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This Is the Way the Humanities End

Brian Rosenberg, who serves on the board of the Teagle Foundation, speaks to Roosevelt Montás's approach to the humanities, which moves away from hyper-specialization and toward a meaningful encounter with a new generation of students.

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Rethinking the Performance Gap

The Teagle Foundation's Knowledge for Freedom Program appears on a list of seven proven strategies to help colleges advance academic equity, reduce disparities in graduation rates, and maximize every student's educational outcome.

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Teach public school kids the classic books

Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, argues that low-income students deserve the same opportunities to read the classics.

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Rescuing Great Books from the Elites

Read (or listen) to an interview with Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program about his life and his book Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.

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Can the Humanities Truly Transform Undergraduates’ Lives?

Steven Mintz summarizes and responds to Louis Menard's review of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.

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Roosevelt Montás on the Virtues of a Liberal Education

An interview with Roosevelt Montás about liberal education and his critically acclaimed book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Montás is a Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.

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Opinion: In an acrimonious time, some welcome fresh attention to Socrates and civilized arguing

Columnist George Will favorably reviews Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.
 

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First-Generation Brooklynites Are Getting Into College Thanks to This Growing Organization

The Knowledge for Freedom Program is helping first-generation and low-income students at 11 Brooklyn high schools to achieve their higher education goals.

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Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People

In The New York Times, John McWhorter favorably reviews Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program. 

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Elon University's Freedom Scholars

With support from a $300,000 Teagle grant, Elon’s Freedom Scholars to welcome area high school students in summer 2022.

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Do Great Books still matter? For Roosevelt Montás, they are essential.

Read more about Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, and his defense of a great books curriculum in his new book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.

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Achieving Both Breadth and Depth in Education Philanthropy

Teagle Senior Program Officer Annie W. Bezbatchenko and Program Director Tamara Mann Tweel on how the Foundation balances focus and reach across initiatives.

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Ep. 40 Roosevelt Montás, "Rescuing Socrates"

Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program, joins the Booknotes+ podcast from C-Span to discuss his latest book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.

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Historic Gift to Hollins University

Teagle trustee Mary Dana Hinton, president of Hollins University, announces historic gift to support scholarships for needy students.

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The Left Should Defend Classical Education

This review of Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member argues that a great books education should be available to working-class people.

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Professional success is liberal arts colleges’ best-kept secret

Read more about how a $280,000 Teagle grant supported the integration of the liberal arts in undergraduate business education.

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‘The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs’

An interview with Richard Detweiler, President of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, about his recent book, The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry and Accomplishment. His research into the long-term behavioral impact of liberal arts education was funded by a $100,000 grant from The Teagle Foundation.

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Why the Core Matters for a New Generation

Roosevelt Montás on how if done right, required classes bring campuses together and are a boon to the humanities.

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‘Rescuing Socrates’ Review: Great Books, Greatly Missed

A review of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montás, Cornerstone: Learning for Living Advisory Council member and Director of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia University's Knowledge for Freedom Program.

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Finding Dignity and Excellence in the Great Books

In this excerpt from Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation, Roosevelt Montás on how classic texts can be transformative for all students.

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Meet Shaun Abreu, City Council’s Newest Member From Upper Manhattan

Abreu is an alumn of Freedom & Citizenship, Columbia's Knowledge for Freedom Program.

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'Cornerstone: Learning for Living' Grant Awarded to the SLU University Core

Saint Louis University will build pathways to the humanities in new University Core with Teagle funding.

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‘Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy Of Detroit’ Wins $200K Documentary Prize

Teagle President Andrew Delbanco served on the jury of the 2021 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, a late-stage American history documentary competition.

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Revitalizing the Humanities with General Education

Teagle President Andrew Delbanco and Program Director Loni Bordoloi Pazich on recent successes of Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs.

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“The Future of the Humanities, The Future of Our Country”

An interview with Dr. Andrew Delbanco, President of the Teagle Foundation, with WGCU, the local PBS and NPR station for Southwest Florida.

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Civil Renewal Project at Ball State University Gains National Attention

With Teagle funding, Ball State will collaborate with Southeastern University and the Minnesota Humanities Center to develop undergraduate students' civic identities.

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Stanford’s new Civic, Liberal and Global education program awarded an implementation grant

As part of the Cornerstone: Living for Learning initiative, The Teagle Foundation and The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $250,000 to Stanford University to implement their Civic, Liberal and Global Education first-year requirement, otherwise known as COLLEGE.

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Poets Reginald Dwayne Betts and Major Jackson to Kick Off New Workshop Series

Teaching with Transformative Texts series will offer practical ways to strengthen general education and reinvigorate the humanities as more students turn to pre-professional fields.

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Why a Liberal Education is Worth Defending

Steven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin reviews Roosevelt Montás' forthcoming book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.

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‘Work with hope’ – a poet and classics scholar on facing the flood of bad news

Rachel Hadas, Cornerstone: Living for Learning advisory council member, reflects on the Covid-19 pandemic. To find solace in the endurance and adaptability of human beings, she draws on the wisdom of Homer, Hesiod, Emily Dickinson, Jane Goodall, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry David Thoreau, and even Teagle President Andrew Delbanco.

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Grant Helps Colleges Plan Pathways for Community College Students

Eckerd College is partnering with Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida to establish a Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts in Florida consortium.

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TU to Improve Community College Transitions

Tiffin University has joined the Teagle-funded Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts to improve community college transfer opportunities.

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A Quest of Their Own

High school students got a taste of the liberal arts experience through Ursinus College’s Teagle-funded Knowledge for Freedom program called Freedom, Citizenship, and Equality.

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CSU helps launch national commission to create blueprint for undergrad education

Teagle President Andrew Delbanco will serve on the Boyer 2040 Commission, which will examine how to improve undergraduate education.

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What Should Students Learn?

Roosevelt Montás, senior lecturer in American Studies at Columbia University and Rene Plessner Lecturer for its Freedom and Citizenship program and member of the advisory council for Cornerstone: Learning for Living, argues that the humanities can be reinvigorated through general education and transformative texts.

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Degrees of Anxiety

This essay about what college is, and what it does, includes a mention of Teagle President Andrew Delbanco.

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Andrew Delbanco Joins Boyer 2040 Commission

Teagle's President joins the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities' newly formed Boyer 2040 Commission, which aims to realize the potential of undergraduate education at research universities.

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UNCW Receives Grant to Study Wilmington's 1898 Coup and Massacre

With funding from Teagle through Education for American Civic Life, UNC Wilmington will educate students and contribute to local community history.

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George Fox Program Gives Latino Woodburn High School Students Opportunity to Learn about Humanities

This summer, George Fox launched Liberation Scholars, its bilingual Knowledge for Freedom program.

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Humanities Center Summer Program Teaches the Classics to Local High Schoolers

This summer, Boston University's Center for the Humanities launched its Knowledge for Freedom program, The One and the Many at BU.

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Knowledge for Freedom Seminar

Participants in Dickinson College's The House Divided Project, Knowledge for Freedom Seminar share their experiences with the program.

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UNCW Receives $25,000 Teagle Foundation Grant

The University of North Carolina Wilmington received a $25,000 grant from The Teagle Foundation to fund a project that explores the meaning and fragility of democracy.

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Dickinson College Seminar a Lesson in Freedom, College Prep

The House Divided Project, a Knowledge for Freedom program introduces low income students to college by studying the American Civil War.

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Is Your Degree Program Too Complicated?

Winston-Salem State University, one of four institutions convened by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and supported by a $300,000 grant from The Teagle Foundation, recently completed a curricular coherence project.

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Briefs: Coshocton barns sought for history project

With a grant from the Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, the Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to Liberal Arts will address some of the most challenging barriers faced by community college students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.

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New Partnership Aims to Connect Latino High Schoolers to College Life

George Fox University's Knowledge for Freedom program, Liberation Scholars, expands access to the liberal arts by priortizing inclusivity, including reading transformative texts in English and Spanish.

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Clark State to Participate in Transfer Project to Establish Pathways to Bachelor Degrees

Clark State College is part of the Council of Independent Colleges' Teagle-funded Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts.

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Bluffton Joins Consortium to Improve Pathways for Community College Transfers

Bluffton University is part of the Council of Independent Colleges' Teagle-funded Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts.

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New Consortium to Aid Students

Ohio Wesleyan College is part of the Council of Independent Colleges' Teagle-funded Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts.

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How 14 Private Colleges are Planning to Improve Community College Transfer

Winne Gerhardt, director of new Ohio consortium, on streamlining transfer pathways.

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Lakeland Included In New Transfer Pathways Initiative For Three Disciplines

Lakeland Community College is part of the Council of Independent Colleges' Teagle-funded Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts.

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Classic Books or Diverse Books? That’s a False Binary

Roosevelt Montás, longtime instructor in Columbia's Knowledge for Freedom program and member of the advisory council for Cornerstone: Learning for Living, on core texts' importance for students of all backgrounds.

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Tri-C, Ursuline Join Consortium to Ease Transfer Credits to Four-year Colleges

Cuyahoga Community College and Ursuline College are two of 14 Ohio schools participating in the Ohio Consortium for Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts, funded by Teagle and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

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Seamless College Transfer Program Expands Across New England

Funding from Teagle and the Arthur Davis Vining Foundations will scale the New England Transfer Guarentee to Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

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ACI, Illinois Community College Board and Illinois Board of Higher Education to Collaborate, Develop

Funding from Teagle and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will ease transfer process from two- to four-year schools.

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Associated Colleges of Illinois Awarded Grant to Help Improve Four-Year Degree Completion Rates

Funding from Teagle and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will ease transfer process from two- to four-year schools.

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Private Colleges, Two-year Publics Link Up on Pathways Project

Funding from Teagle and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will streamline transfer process for Ohio students.

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Professor Honored for Service Efforts

Emma Powell, who developed CMU's Certified Nonprofit Professional Credential with funding from Teagle, was honored for her contributions to the community.

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Teagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Announce $1.625 Million in Grants

Under the jointly sponsored Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative, the latest round of grants will go to 21 colleges and universities across the country.
 

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My Civics Students Taught me how to Honor an Imperfect Country on the Fourth of July

Teagle Program Director Tamara Mann Tweel recounts how transformative texts can shape students' understanding of their role in civic life.

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Great Questions Seminars changing the way we learn at ACC

Funded by a $260,000 Cornerstone: Living for Learning implementation grant, Austin Community College runs a Great Questions Seminar program, the only college readiness course of its kind in the nation at a community college.

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Arthur Vining Davis and Teagle Announce 7 New Grants to Create Transfer Pathways

The Teagle Foundation and AVDF approved seven new grants totaling $700,000 to create transfer pathways for community college students to independent colleges.

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Faculty work to revitalize humanities at Berks

Two Penn State Berks professors were awarded a Cornerstone: Living for Learning initiative planning grant to lay the groundwork for the Keystone Certificate, which will introduce nonhumanities majors to the humanities.

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Teagle Announces Two New Board Members

Sheryl Hilliard Tucker, Executive Director of The Board Challenge and Mary Dana Hinton, President of Hollins College have joined Teagle's Board of Directors.

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Loyola to participate in pathways to college grant through MICUA

Teagle awarded a $50,000 planning grant to The Maryland Independent College and University Association (MICUA) to help more community college students in Maryland achieve their goal of earning a degree from a four-year college.

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Teagle Foundation Approves $50K Grant to MICUA

The grant will fund planning to streamline the process for students transferring to a four-year college.

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Teagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Award Bard College $50,000

The Teagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Bard College a $50,000 Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative grant to develop a new core cluster of second-year Common Courses.

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Grant: Great Works Academic Certificate Program

A Cornerstone: Living for Learning initiative grant will make core texts in the humanities more widely read by UNLV students.

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Biden’s Free College Plan Pays Too Much, Gets Too Little

This article critiquing Biden's College Promise Plan quotes Teagle Program Officer Loni Bordoloi Pazich.

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Dickinson College’s House Divided Project Explores the Struggle for Freedom in the US

Matthew Pinsker, Director of the Teagle-funded House Divided Program and Todd Mealy, Assistant Director spoke about the program.

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A New Future for Humanities Funding?

This article proposes that higher education funders should support under-resourced institutions. It quotes Teagle President Andrew Delbanco's remarks at a recent ACLS panel.

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Faculty Collaboration and Technology in the Liberal Arts

Read more about Ithaka S+R's assessment of Teagle’s “Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience” program (2014-2016), which funded a group of higher education consortia to test whether collaboratively developed technology-enhanced educational resources can cost-effectively increase high-quality learning experiences.

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Kubrick's Human Comedy

Andrew Delbanco reviews David Mikics' Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker. In his review of Mikics' biography, Delbanco analyzes Kubrick's career, ambition, and impact on cinema.

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Delbanco Elected President of the Society of American Historians

Teagle President Andrew H. Delbanco has been elected President of the Society of American Historians. His term will begin in May 2021.

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To Better Support the Success of Students of Color, Colorado Instructors Must Disrupt Racial Biases

James Gray, math instructor at Community College of Aurora applied the Teagle-funded Equity Scorecard to check implicit bias and make his teaching more effective.

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N.C. Community College Students Take Advantage of Low Costs

This segment features a student on how their path from a two- to four-year college was made easier because of Teagle-funded work by the Council of Independent Colleges and North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities.

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Why Core Texts Matter to Community College Students

Andrea Fabrizio and Gregory Marks, directors of the Teagle-funded Core Books at CUNY program explain how core texts are integral to community college students' education.

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Four private colleges take new steps to welcome transfers

This article reports on the results of a $25,000 Teagle grant to the Minnesota Private College Council to plan the infrastructure for sector-wide transfer arrangements with the two-year campuses of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MSCU) based on an assessment of opportunities for more independent colleges to participate in the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum and recruit community college students from MSCU.

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Biden’s Plan Would Make Community College Free. It Could Also Have Unintended Downsides.

This article about the American Families Plan quotes Teagle Program Director Loni Bordoloi Pazich on its potential consequences.

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NCCCS, NCICU Sign Articulation Agreement

North Carolina Community College System and North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities signed an agreement to make the transfer process seamless for students studying psychology and sociology.

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Monday Musings: Democracy and Education

Teagle Program Director Tamara Mann Tweel was the keynote speaker at Denison University's Lisska Center for the Study of the Humanities's Democracy and Education virtual event.

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After Classes Moved Online, Enrollment Skyrocketed

The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, a Teagle grantee, has experienced increased interest and enrollment of students in its discussion-based adult education classes since transitioning online due to the pandemic.

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Doing Transfer Right

The American Council on Education's new report on transfer mentions the New England Independent College Transfer Guarantee as a model.

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How to Improve Teaching Quality and Effectivness

Steven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, explains how to improve university teaching by overcoming counterproductive assumptions.

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The Class Every Pre-med Should Take

A Johns Hopkins student reflects on the value of studying literature as a STEM student in a course established through the University's Cornerstone: Learning for Living first year seminar program.

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Dickinson College's House Divided Project to Offer Framework for Summer Program for Low-income Stude

Dickinson expands the House Divided Program to high schoolers with Teagle funding.

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Teaching Humanities from a Distance

Teaching during the pandemic can be successful when the focus is on mentoring and on engaging students with transformative texts.

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Free Community College Requires New Paths to Four-year Institutions

This op-ed makes the case that free college policies must include transfer pathways to four-year public or private colleges.

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John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities?

Teagle President Andrew Delbanco reviews historian Robert Elder's recent biography of John C. Calhounin The New York Times.

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All Politics is Local: Changemaking Happens Closer to Home Than You Realize

Elaina Pevide, a participant in the Teagle-funded ENACT Program, explains why local politics is a powerful avenue for affecting change.

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Shattering Invisible Darkness

Simone Henderson, a 2020 Teagle Humanities Fellow, reflects on the relevance of fear and love in the works of James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Toni Morrison to our contemporary moment.

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New BU Center for the Humanities Summer Program for Local High Schoolers Launches with $300K Grant

Underserved high school students will study the humanities at "The One and the Many at BU," a Teagle-funded summer program.

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Educating Future Law Enforcement Officers

This op-ed by Teagle Program Consultant Annie W. Bezbatchenko and Dara N. Byrne of John Jay College contends that following the January 6 assault on the Capitol, criminal justice education must include the humanities.

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GSU EPIC Students Contribute to COVID-19 Research

Georgia State University students who are participants in the Teagle-funded EPIC Program contributed to research on public opinion ratings of political leaders infected with COVID-19, featured in the Washington Post.

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‘Inspired choice’: Biden appoints sociologist Alondra Nelson to top science post

President Joseph R. Biden has appointed Teagle Foundation Director Alondra Nelson to the position of Deputy Director for Science and Society in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Talking Women in Higher Ed and Tech with Loni Bordoloi Pazich

Philanthropy Women interviews Teagle Program Director Loni Bordoloi Pazich about her work in higher education philanthropy.

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Reclaiming the Role of the Humanities in our Democracy

In light of the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, this op-ed argues that the humanities are crucial to an education that equips students for knowing, sharing, and passing on the essential values of our democracy. 

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A Failure to Educate

Inside Higher Ed quotes Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco on the role of the humanities in responding to the Capitol riots.

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Foundation Chief Andrew Delbanco Wants All Students to Wrestle With Great Books

The Wall Street Journal profiles Teagle President Andrew Delbanco on why all students should have access to the humanities and his work with the Foundation to make this vision a reality.

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The Song of Sirens

Teagle Program Director Tamara Mann Tweel writes about giving birth in the height of a pandemic.

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When Polling Fails, Read a Book

Transformative texts offer us a way to confront the mystery of the human condition and, in our current context, what we don’t understand about American politics, writes Tamara Mann Tweel.

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The Poseidon Adventure: Leadership Lessons from the Gods

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Can We Pull Colleges Back to Wisdom?

University of Dallas President Thomas S. Hibbs cites Cornerstone as a model for college curriculum for knowledge and civic engagement.
 

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Teagle, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to Support College Students

The Teagle Foundation is partnering with the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to address obstacles students face when transferring from two-year community colleges to four-year independent colleges.

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Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Partner to Strengthen Transfer Pathways

The Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations are partnering to address the academic obstacles that community college students face when trying to transfer to independent four-year colleges.

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Humanities for Everyone: A Plan

Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco and National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Parrish Peede discuss Cornerstone: Learning for Living, the Foundation’s partnership with the NEH to reinvigorate the role of the humanities in general education.

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Book Club Helps Seniors Connect

This news spot covers Books@Work's pilot program of a book club for seniors in Cleveland who are homebound during COVID-19.

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Talking to Your Children About Politics

CNN Interviews Tamara Mann Tweel on how to talk to children about fraught politics.

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How to Reopen the American Mind

In an essay on the place of the humanities in our broader culture, the authors reflect on how humanistic education is thriving beyond the academy and cites Teagle grantee Books@Work as an example.

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Martin Amis is Committed to the Pleasure Principle in Books

Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco’s book The War Before the War is mentioned by Martin Amis in an interview with The New York Times.

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Civic Education After Rupture

In a time when students are experiencing civic loss or rupture, Tamara Mann Tweel reflects on the value of teaching for belonging.

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Strapped for Students, Colleges Finally Begin to Clear Transfer Logjam

This article in The Washington Post cites the innovative Connecticut Independent College Transfer Guarantee, spearheaded by the New England Board of Higher Education with support from a Teagle grant awarded in 2019.
 

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Strapped for Students, Colleges Finally Begin to Clear Transfer Logjam

This article in The Hechinger Report cites the innovative Connecticut Independent College Transfer Guarantee, spearheaded by the New England Board of Higher Education with support from a Teagle grant awarded in 2019.
 

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National Humanities Alliance Webinar

In a webinar sponsored by the National Humanities Alliance, Paula Krebs, executive director of the Modern Language Association, speaks to the Cornerstone model (minute 46:00). 

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Needed: A New Rehearsal Space for Democracy

Teagle President Andrew Delbanco and National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Parrish Peede describe how the Cornerstone model reimagines general education.

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NEH, Teagle Foundation Launch $7 Million Humanities Initiative

Philanthropy News Digest covered the news about the joint partnership between the Teagle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities launched in fall 2020 to revitalize the role of the humanities in general education.

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How COVID Could Impact Transfer Students

This article cites Teagle grantee North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities as a model for transfer to independent colleges.
 

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Grants Aim to "Reinvigorate the Humanities" by Connecting Them to Career Goals

Mike Scutari of Inside Philanthropy interviews Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco on the urgent need for the Cornerstone:Learning for Living initiative.

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Cornerstone: Learning for Living featured in Teaching Newsletter

The Chronicle of Higher Education featured the Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant program in its Teaching Newsletter. 

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The Teagle Foundation Partners with the National Endowment for the Humanities

The Teagle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are partnering to jointly sponsor Cornerstone: Learning for Living, a grant program to reinvigorate the role of the humanities in general education.

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IUP Professor Named Grant Recipient

The Indiana Gazette reports that Indiana University of Pennsylvania is laying the groundwork for the "Big Ideas: The Humanities and the Professions" program, a certificate in the humanities designed especially for pre-professional and STEM students. The Teagle Foundation made a grant to support this work in 2020. 

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Transfer Access to the Liberal Arts

Small liberal arts colleges have a crucial opportunity to engage actively with community colleges for the benefit of both students and themselves, write Loni Bordoloi Pazich of the Teagle Foundation and Meagan Wilson of Ithaka S+R.

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The Teagle Foundation Commits over $525,000 in Community Recovery Grants

The Teagle Foundation's Board of Directors has awarded special grants totaling $529,250 in a series of Community Recovery grants. 

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Encouraging Collaboration and Inclusion

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The Case for Using Literature to Kickstart Conversations about Race at Work

This article profiles Books@Work and its programming to use discussions about literature as a way to broach conversations about race in the workplace.

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Universities must offer more than 'Zoom from your room'

In this article published in the Financial Times, Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco reflects on how the pandemic will have a differential impact on elite and non-elite institutions and how the “involuntary experiment” to dramatically improve online learning may yield some lasting benefit for all students. If such broad-based benefits are not realized, “the pandemic will have been an inconvenience for the privileged and a disaster for everyone else.”

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What is College Worth?

In this article from The New York Review of Books, Jonathan Zimmerman details how despite being "once imagined as an engine of mobility, college now augments inequality" among students of different socioeconomic backgrounds. Zimmerman cites Teagle Foundation President Andrew Delbanco, author of College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, as an example of a college educator who took responsibility for learning about the needs of students who are otherwise overlooked.

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The General Education Curriculum We Need

Steven Mintz highlights the Teagle-funded Cornerstone program at Purdue University as an example of what a holistic general eduction program can achieve.

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Message from President Andrew Delbanco on the Imperative of Racial Justice

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The End of College as We Knew It?

In this article New York Times opinion columnist Frank Bruni discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has put liberal arts education, particularly the humanities, in jeopardy. Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco and board member Brian Rosenberg are quoted on how the pandemic is not only a health and safety crisis, but also a values crisis, and a liberal arts education provides the necessary grounding to navigate these multi-pronged threats. Bruni highlights the Teagle-funded Cornerstone program at Purdue University as an example of what more colleges need to be doing to prepare as many “broadly educated, deeply reflective citizens and leaders as possible.” He also mentions Teagle grantees LaGuardia Community College and Ursinus College in his column as additional examples of how colleges across the country are recommitting to the liberal arts as part of their response to the pandemic.

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The Teagle Foundation Makes $750,000 in New Grants

The Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors awarded grants totaling $750,000 through its initiatives, Pathways to the Liberal Arts and Education for American Civic Life.

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The Pandemic’s Most Powerful Writer Is a Surgeon

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco was quoted again in the Wall Street Journal about writings during the pandemic by Dr. Craig Smith, the renowned chief of surgery at Columbia University.

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Message from President Andrew Delbanco in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Getting Online: Lessons from Liberal Arts Colleges

This article by Ithaka S+R offers guidance to residential institutions on the transition to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The article cites transferable lessons from an evaluation of Teagle’s Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience, which supported online module development and course-sharing.

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The Foundation Makes $905,000 in New Grants

The Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors awarded grants totaling $905,000 through its long-running College-Community Connections program and for its initiatives Pathways to the Liberal Arts and Education for American Civic Life.

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The Case for Reading Fiction

Books@Work is featured in this article about the benefits to workplaces of employees reading fiction.

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No Place to Hide: Colleges Track Students, Everywhere

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco was quoted in the Wall Street Journal about the increasingly common practice of tracking students on college campuses. The tracking is intended to help keep students safe, engaged and moving efficiently toward graduation but raises concerns about privacy and diminishing students’ sense of self-efficacy.

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Within NYC’s Highly Segregated School System, a Group of Low-Income Students Sacrifice Their Summers

Non-profit media outlet The 74 describes the Teagle-funded partnership between Scholars for Educational Opportunity (SEO) and Skidmore College and its impact on the lives and aspirations of low-income high school students.

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Some Colleges Start to Confront a Surprising Reason Students Fail: Too Many Choices

In 2016, the Teagle Foundation made a grant co-funded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, College Futures Foundation, and James Irvine Foundation to pilot guided pathways at 20 California community colleges. This article in Hechinger Report cites improvements in student outcomes at Cosumnes River College, one of the colleges that participated in the Teagle co-funded pilot, that results from its participation in the guided pathways work.

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Econ Extra Credit with David Brancaccio

Journalist David Brancaccio of the public radio show Marketplace is leading a reading group that will delve into Teagle grantee CORE's free, online economics textbook that emphasizes empirical research, historical context, and the use of hands-on data.

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A Doubtful Freedom

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's latest book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, was reviewed by historian David W. Blight in The New York Review of Books.

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Giant Leaps for the Liberal Arts at Purdue

This article in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning by Teagle grantee Melinda Zook highlights how the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University took bold measures to reverse the tide of dramatic enrollment declines with the Cornerstone program. 

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100 Notable Books of 2019

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's newest book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, was featured on The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2019 list.

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The Teagle Foundation Makes $1.6M in New Grants

The Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors awarded grants totaling $1.6 million through its newly launched initiatives, Pathways to the Liberal Arts and Education for American Civic Life.

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A Modern Great Books Solution to the Humanities’ Enrollment Woes

This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education showcases the background, results, and future of Purdue University's Cornerstone program.

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Can You Get Students Interested in the Humanities Again? These Colleges May Have It Figured Out

This article highlights how Purdue's Cornerstone program has helped revive liberal arts enrollment at a STEM-oriented university. 

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Shakespeare on the Shop Floor: Literature at Work and in the Community

Ann Kowal Smith expands on a panel session about demonstrating the value of the humanities outside of academia.

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Where 4-Year Schools Find a Pool of Applicants: 2-Year Schools

This New York Times article highlights the New England Board of Higher Education's efforts to create transfer pipelines for community college students to enroll at independent four-year colleges after earning associate's degrees in the liberal arts. 

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Foundation President and Historian Wants to Make the Humanities Accessible

In this article, Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco discusses his goals to engage students in the humanities.

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Teagle Foundation Forum Explores What Liberal Arts Can Offer Underrepresented Students

At a recent forum marking the Teagle Foundation's 75th anniversary, humanities faculty explored what their disciplines offer underrepresented students - and whether liberal arts schools are the institutions best serving them.

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A Liberal Arts Approach to Design Thinking

Teagle grantee Jeffrey Nesteruk discusses a liberal arts approach to design thinking at Franklin & Marshall College.

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How an Idiosyncratic Role-Playing Game Became a Popular Teaching Tool

This article highlights Reacting to the Past, an innovative game-based approach to teaching history and other disciplines. This initiative, which began a Barnard College, now has a presence on more than 500 college campuses. 

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Closer Reading: Teaching Fiction at Work

Laura Baudot discusses her experience teaching with Books@Work. 

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Words to Live (and Work) by: Fairbanks Morse Books@Work Program

Fairbanks Morse strives to offer employees opportunities to build interpersonal relationships and develop a sense of community outside of their daily routines. The Books@Work program has been growing in popularity amongst employees at Fairbanks Morse. 

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Alexandra Logue, Graduate Center of the City University of New York – Remedial Math

Math could be what determines whether you graduate from college. Alexandra Logue, research professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, examines why in this interview. 

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Formerly Homeless High School Senior Gets into 12 Universities

A formerly homeless teen, spent three years attending the Fresh Air Fund’s College Connections Program, a mentoring program that helps high school students choose, enroll in, and prepare for college.

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Hope for Faculty Off the Tenure Track?

Teagle grantee Adrianna Kezar describes the efforts of the Delphi Project for the Changing Faculty and Student Success to bring attention to innovative ways institutions can support non-tenure-track faculty members.

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Teagle Foundation Awards $1.2 Million for Liberal Arts Initiatives

The Teagle Foundation has announced grants totaling nearly $1.3 million in support of liberal arts programs nationwide through two recently launched initiatives.

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The Teagle Foundation Makes Over $1.2M in New Grants

The Teagle Foundation's Board of Diretors awarded grants totaling $1.295 million through its newly launched initiatives, Pathways to the Liberal Arts and Education for American Civil Life.

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The Exquisite Challenge of Care

Teagle Program Director Tamara Mann Tweel reflects on what Ruth can teach us about care for our elders.

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Andrew Delbanco is a winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award

Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies and Teagle Foundation president, has been awarded the 44th annual Lionel Trilling Book Award for his book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. 

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The Future of Gen Ed

A recent conference organized by Inside Higher Ed featured Teagle grantees Melinda Zook of Purdue University and Richard Detweiler of Great Lakes Colleges Association as speakers. Zook described the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts, a 15-credit certificate designed to provide pre-professional students a coherent sequence of liberal arts courses aligned with their majors and interests. Detweiler presented findings from a study on the long-term impact of liberal arts education in the decades following college graduation.

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How Well Do Elite Colleges Contribute to the Public Good?

Teagle grantee Howard Gardner of Harvard University receives attention for his research on exemplary programs to strengthen undergraduate education.

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2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's latest book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, was recently recognized with the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction. As announced by the Cleveland Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf is “the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity.”

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Teaching at Scale

This essay cites Reacting to the Past, an innovative game-based approach to teaching history and other disciplines, as an example of how faculty can teach highly engaging courses to hundreds of students in a cost-effective manner

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Announcing the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Winners and Finalists

Teagle Foundation president, Andrew Delbanco, has been awarded the 2019 Lukas Prize by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

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NE Board of Higher Education Launches Initiative for Independent College Transfer

Local press covered news of the New England Board of Higher Education’s efforts to establish a transfer guarantee for eligible community college students interested in completing their baccalaureate degrees at independent four-year colleges.

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How Academic Institutions Are Reducing Expenses With Cross-Institution Collaboration

Strategies documented in the evaluation of the Hybrid Learning initiative are cited in this essay as examples of ways to reduce the cost of a college education while maintaining a commitment to excellence.

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Harvard's Econ 101 Class Will Never Be the Same

This column describes the efforts of Teagle grantee CORE (Curriculum Open-Access Resources for Economics) to teach economics in a manner that emphasizes empirical research and the use of hands-on data with a free electronic textbook and related online teaching resources.

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Teagle Foundation Awards $3 Million to Bolster Liberal Arts Education

The Teagle Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $3 million to bolster liberal arts programs across the country.

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The Teagle Foundation Welcomes New Director Alondra Nelson and Makes Over $3M in New Grants

Alondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council and professor of sociology at Columbia University, was elected as a director of the Teagle Foundation on February 22. At the same meeting, the Foundation’s Board of Directors awarded grants totaling over $3 million through its newly launched initiative Pathways to the Liberal Arts as well as its ongoing initiatives Liberal Arts and the Professions and College-Community Connections. 
 

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An Agenda for Moderates

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's 1999 book, The Real American Dream, is highlighted in this New York Times column by David Brooks. 

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By Any Other Name

Liberal education advocates discuss ways to "reclaim" conversations about academe -- in part by not using the term "liberal arts."

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Teaching an Ivy League Curriculum at a Community College

Hostos Community College has experienced great success in adopting Columbia University’s core text curriculum for its required composition course. They are currently laying the groundwork to expand the approach at their own institution and to other community colleges in the City University of New York system.

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A Great American Hater

Andrew Delbanco discusses the life and times of John Quincy Adams, as revealed by his Diaries, 1799-1821 and Diaries, 1821-1848.

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The War Before the War

Andrew Delbanco, Teagle Foundation president and American studies professor at Columbia University, recounts the political and moral divisions that separated the United States in the lead-up to the Civil War.

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How To Use Stories To Transform Relationships

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Fugitive Slaves and the Road to the Civil War

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco was a guest on a podcast for The New York Times’ Book Review to discuss his latest book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.

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How One College Made Its Gen-Ed Program Feel More Relevant

Shenandoah University was in the midst of revising its general-education curriculum about four years ago when Amy Sarch, an associate provost there, heard about an unusual program on the other side of the country.

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SF State Smoothes the Path to Graduation

San Francisco State University (SFSU) describes successful curricular reforms that were enacted as a result of a Teagle grant made in 2014 to streamline upper division coursework in the major and improve time to graduation.

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For Staff and Adjuncts, a Shot at Tenure

In order to recognize institutions taking positive steps to better support contingent faculty – and to encourage their peers to do the same – Teagle underwrote an award program run by the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education and the Association of American Colleges and Universities with a grant made in 2017. The article describes the changes to policy and practice implemented by the first two awardees, Harper College (a two-year community college in Illinois) and California State University-Dominguez Hills. 

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Diversity in Higher Ed: How One Organization is Getting More Diverse Students on Campus

In this podcast (30:35 minutes), the executive director and a student participant in Leadership for a Diverse America (LEDA) describe how the program has helped build a pathway for low-income high-achieving students into the country’s most selective colleges. Teagle has provided LEDA with multiple rounds of support, most recently in 2018.

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Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018

The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year, including The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Teagle Foundation president, Andrew Delbanco.

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'In Search of Curricular Coherence'

Teagle’s external evaluation of Faculty Planning and Curricular Coherence by Madeleine Green received attention in the higher education press upon its release in early December.

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Doing Philanthropy Together

Learn about opportunitites and challenges of a collaborative funding model focused on increasing college graduation rates. 

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Battle Lines: Recovering the Profound Divisions that Led to the Civil War

Gordon S. Wood of The New Republic reviews Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's new book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.

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The Teagle Foundation Renews Support to a Funder Collaborative and Launches New Initiatives

The Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has renewed support to the College Completion Innovation Fund, a funder collaborative that will award grants to New York City community-based organizations and colleges and universities to address undergraduate transfer student success and to increase overall momentum and persistence to graduation.

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The Question Without a Solution

Alan Jacobs of The Weekly Standard reviews Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's new book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. 

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‘No Property in Man’ and ‘The War Before the War’ Review: The Fuse the Founders Lit

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco's new book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, is highlighted in this feature by David S. Reynolds in The Wall Street Journal. 

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Lincoln and the Fugtive Slave Act

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco discusses Abraham Lincoln’s thoughts and writings on slavery, and described how the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act galvanized many northerners to become more active abolitionists. 

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America’s Struggle for Moral Coherence

The problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is what led to the Civil War. It hasn’t gone away.

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How the Fugitive Slave Act Ignited a "Struggle for America's Soul"

Terry Gross interviews Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco on his new book, The War Before the War; Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, on NPR's Fresh Air.

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Migrant Slaves, Sanctuary Cities and the Coming of the Civil War

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco engages in a Q/A about his new book The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.

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A Den of Braggarts and Brawlers

Andrew Delbanco reviews The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Yale historian Joanne Freeman.

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‘The Metamorphosis’ and ‘How Social Isolation Is Killing Us’

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Purposeful Pathways: Faculty Planning for Curricular Coherence

Purposeful Pathways: Faculty Planning for Curricular Coherence helps faculty create and assess curricular pathways that can guide students to higher levels of learning, intellectual skills development, and practical knowledge.

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Bringing the Core to High School Students

Wrestling with Hobbes and Locke might not be the average summer fare for most high school students, but for the past decade Columbia’s Freedom and Citizenship summer program has encouraged a small set of rising seniors to pursue an experience — and an education — outside the norm.

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Redeeming the Liberal Arts

Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, describes the need for “early colleges” for high school students and lays out ways in which liberal arts education can be revitalized and strengthened. Bard College currently has a planning grant to improve transfer opportunities for high school students enrolled in the Bard Early Colleges Network so they make more rapid progress towards baccalaureate degrees in the liberal arts.

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The Rigidness of Academic Routine

Director Brian Rosenberg's essay summarizes major challenges to liberal education.

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The Power of Academic Friendship

It is time to combine the best of business education with the well-documented benefits of a liberal arts education, argues Loni Bordoloi Pazich.

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Liberal Arts Shouldn’t be an Afterthought at Large Research Universities

Teagle grantee, Purdue University, describes its unique Cornerstone Intergrated Liberal Arts program.

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How Studying Business, Engineering in College Can Lead to Jobs

Undergraduate programs are pushing creativity and communication skills alongside technical abilities.

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PBS NewsHour: To Narrow Toxic Divides, Students Build Bridges Between Faiths

Teagle grantee, Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), is featured in this PBS NewsHour segment.

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The Grand Challenges Scholars Program: Integrating Liberal Arts and STEM

Read about the Grand Challenges Scholars Program on the campuses of two Teagle grantees, Olin College and Lawrence Technology University.

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Escaping Westworld

In the future, we won't be able to sidestep the ethical and policy issues linked to the use of technology, writes Lynn Pasquerella, so we must confront the question of how we best prepare students for it.

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UMN Morris Offers Hands-on Course on Indigenous Education

This summer University of Minnesota Morris professors co-taught a new course on indigenous education, past and present, in the United States and Canada.

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Research Backs California's Push to Reform Remedial Math Education

Drawing on her experiences within the City University of New York system, Teagle grantee Alexandra Logue offers insights into the impact of corequesite remediation in California.

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How to Get the Most Out of College

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco is quoted in this essay by New York Times columnist Frank Bruni.

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Cleveland Police Event Uses Story to Spark Discussion between Officers and Community Members

This news spot profiles the work of Books@Work in collaboration with Literacy in the Hood and the Cleveland Police Department to encourage conversations between police officers and local children.

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Reading, Writing and Arguing: Can A Summer of Big Questions Push Students to College?

High school students get a jump-start studying great books and philosophers through the Teagle-funded College-Community Connections program. 

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Setting A Foundation In The Classics For High School Students

Learn more about the summer seminar for rising high school seniors, Freedom and Citizenship in Ancient, Modern and Contemporary Thought.

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From the Battlefield to the Classroom: Program Helping Reintroduce Soldiers to College

Some soldiers are trading the battlefield for a college campus by enrolling in the Warrior-Scholar Project.

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Bringing People Together With Books, In Cleveland And Beyond

A novel idea that started in Cleveland to bringing people together through book clubs. It’s gone global.

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U of A Hosting Warrior Scholar Project for Veterans

From the battlefield to the classroom, many may think service members wouldn't have any trouble with the transition, but a lot of them do. That's why many of them heading to the University of Arizona, are now going through a different kind of boot camp to get ready.

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The Extensive Evidence of Co-Requisite Remediation's Effectiveness

Study after study has shown higher course pass rates than in traditional remedial courses, writes Alexandra W. Logue, so why doesn't everybody know about it?

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Several Colleges Already Teach the ‘Big Questions of Life’

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco offers a response to Professor Howard Gardner's Why We Should Require All Students to Take 2 Philosophy Courses.

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Bootcamp Helps Vets Transition to College Life

A two-week program exclusively for veterans and active-duty military members has returned for its second year on the University of Arizona campus to help transition vets into college life. 

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How College Courses on Happiness and Humiliation Became the Hottest Trend on Campus

Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco is quoted on trendy themes among college course offerings. 

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Military, Veterans Study at Harvard

Warrior-Scholar Project aims to ease veterans' transition to college life.

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Academic "Boot" Camp

Through the Warrior-Scholar Project, college-bound military personnel completed a weeklong academic “military to college” course at Penn.

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Cleveland Uses Literature to Empower Youth, Overcome Social Divides

By welcoming and engaging its citizens from all corners through literature, Cleveland is spawning discussions that could help it tackle tough social issues from homelessness to substance abuse.

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One College Is Doing a Lot to Solve Mass-Incarceration Problem

In this "Letter to the Editor," Teagle grantee John Jay College of Criminal Justice describes several of its ongoing initiatives, including the Prison-to-College Pipeline re-entry program.

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Back-to-School Boot Camp: Texas A&M Again Hosting Program to Prepare Veterans for College Life

Going straight from battlefields and barracks to a college classroom isn't always a smooth transition. The Warrior-Scholar Project uses a boot-camp strategy to help vets get adjusted to college life.

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Princeton University Helps Military Vets Adjust To College Life

An intensive two-week program held at Princeton University is designed to help military veterans make the transition from the military to higher education. 

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What’s Discovered When Disciplines Learn from Each Other

Jeffrey Nesteruk, Teagle grantee and Franklin & Marshall professor of Legal Studies, is a featured blog contributor to the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program.

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Reimagining the Liberal Arts

The liberal arts can help students prepare for the complexities of the modern workplace, including those related to religious diversity. 

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‘Making Sense of the College Curriculum’

Authors discuss new book examining the faculty role -- and how professors view their responsibilities.

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Do Unions Help Adjuncts?

The proportion of faculty off the tenure track has been rising for nearly half a century. This article reviews examples of the impact of collective bargaining agreements.

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Philanthropy and the Interfaith Imperative

Interfaith Youth Core and the Teagle Foundation have established a partnership with faculty from across higher education that seeks to incorporate interfaith perspectives into the curriculum as it also engages students of different religious backgrounds in common projects.

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The Teagle Foundation Announces $300K in New Grants

The Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has approved over $300,000 in support of its ongoing initiatives to advance teaching and learning of liberal arts education.

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Literature Changing Lives: Books@Work Helps Local Veterans Start A New Chapter

Books@Work has launched a special community-based program for veterans.

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Collaboration on Documentary Storymaking Minor - A Model of Digital Innovation

Teagle grantees Muhlenberg and Lafayette Colleges and Lehigh University have developed a joint documentary studies minor through the Hybrid Learning and Liberal Arts initiative.

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A Natural Attraction?

Essay on "erotics of mentorship" sets off debate about whether sexuality has any place in academic relationships. Teagle President Judith Shapiro was invited to comment on the matter in this article.

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George Anders, Editor at Large at LinkedIn, Reflects on Liberal Arts and the Professions

George Anders shares reflections on his recent participation in Teagle's convening of Liberal Arts and the Professions.

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People: CEO Exits Council on Foundations, New Leaders Join Teagle and SunTrust Funds

Andrew Delbanco, a professor of American studies at Columbia University since 1985, has been selected as president of the Teagle Foundation. He will take over in July, succeeding Judith Shapiro, who is retiring.

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Invisible No More: How Advising Programs Are Finding New Talent for Top Colleges

Teagle grantee Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America is featured for its advising work with high-achieving, low-income students in this Washington Post article.

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Fourteen of 15 into Stanford Early: Eye-popping Admission Stats for Low-income Advising Program

Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America's impact on admissions among high-achieving, low-income students includes 14 of 15 applicants accepted to Stanford.

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The Teagle Foundation Announces Andrew Delbanco As Its New President

The board of directors of the Teagle Foundation has voted unanimously to name Andrew Delbanco as president of the foundation to succeed Judith R. Shapiro beginning July 2018. 

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Teagle Foundation Names Delbanco Next President

The Teagle Foundation is announcing today that its next president will be Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.

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Teagle Foundation’s New President: Private Universities Have Public Responsibilities

Andrew Delbanco has been a professor of American studies at Columbia University for more than three decades. In that time he’s won teaching awards and written about higher education. In July he’ll take over from Judith Shapiro as president of the Teagle Foundation.

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Can a Signature Program Save Your College?

Leaders of small institutions hope distinctive academic programs can stanch declines in enrollments and rates of retention and graduation.

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Book Club, in the Office

Teagle grantee Books@Work brings literature discussions led by professors to the workplace.

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The Abominable White DNA Snowman

Teagle Foundation President Judith Shapiro reflects on the upsides and downsides of the current vogue of looking up one's DNA to find out who one "really is."

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The Teagle Foundation Continues Support of College Access for NYC Youth & Ongoing Initiatives to Adv

The Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has awarded $675,000 in continued support to NYC-area community-based organizations as well as to its ongoing efforts to promote teaching and learning in the liberal arts.  

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Shared Photo Exhibit Brings College Museums Together

"This Place," an exhibition of photos taken by photographers visiting Israel and the West Bank between 2009 and 2012, has been shared through a cooperative arrangement with Hamilton College, Colgate University, Skidmore College, and SUNY Albany. It is part of a three-year grant to help the colleges’ teaching museums learn from each other.

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Can Technology Save The Liberal Arts?

The Teagle Foundation partnered with Ithaka S+R to evaluate the implementation and outcomes of its Hybrid Learning and Residential Liberal Arts Experience intiaitve.

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From Mentee to Mentor

Cherishe Cumma, student participant in CUNY Futures Initiative's Undergraduate Leadership Program, reflects on her experiences in this essay.

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If You Build It, They May Not Come

Initiative to encourage liberal arts colleges to create online courses gets positive reviews from faculty members, but students may not be convinced.

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Seeing Is Believing…and Understanding

Teagle Foundation Program Officer Desiree Vazquez Barlatt reflects on the transformative impact of a recent site visit.

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Relationships Are Central to the Student Experience. Can Colleges Engineer Them?

Having a mentor can help students academically, and is even linked to their later well-being. Such connections can’t be forced — but they can be encouraged. 

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Yale Professor Discusses Warrior-Scholar Project on Fox & Friends

Teagle grantee, Warrior-Scholar Project, was featured on Fox & Friends.

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How Spaces Designed for Learning Can Change Teaching

Teagle grantee Austin Community College transformed a mandated course into a "rich, commonly shared academic experience of discussion-based liberal-arts seminars."

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Free Speech and Quality Speech

Is there a different way of thinking, Judith Shapiro asks, about significant speech events on campuses?

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The Subtle Surprises of Academic Friendships

Personal relationships can provide untapped creative spaces for boundary-spanning work, writes Jeffrey Nesteruk, and the silos we most need to overcome might be ourselves.

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The Teagle Foundation Continues Advocacy of Liberal Arts Education In and Out of the Academy

The Teagle Foundation’s Board of Directors has awarded three grants to ongoing initiatives and special projects that promote liberal arts teaching and learning.

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Second Chances: The Funders Bringing College into Prisons

A small but steadily growing prison education program continues to expand with the help of some big foundations.

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At Otisville, the Prison-to-College Pipeline is Expanding Educational Opportunity for Students Both

The Teagle Foundation supports the Prison-to-College-Pipeline, an initiative of the Prisoner Reentry Institute of John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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Need help with financial aid forms? These groups are here to help.

Through its Better Make Room campaign, Reach Higher is using social media platforms such as Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram to walk students through the financial aid and college application processes.

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Democracy’s Disappearance

Our students don’t understand what it is, so how will they defend it?

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The Teaching of Economics Gets an Overdue Overhaul

The CORE project knits contributions from economists around the world into a text that is free, online and offers interactive charts and videos of star economists. 

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