03.18.2024 | Teagle in the NewsEducation for a life of purposeTeagle 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. Read more > | 3/18/2024 12:00:00 AM |
02.27.2024 | Teagle in the NewsLooking 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. Read more > | 2/27/2024 12:00:00 AM |
01.23.2024 | Teagle in the NewsReimagining the Liberal Arts and HumanitiesTeagle'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. Read more > | 1/23/2024 12:00:00 AM |
10.26.2023 | Teagle in the NewsSyracuse Speaks: growing the knowledge of the Indigenous CulturesA 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. Read more > | 10/26/2023 12:00:00 AM |
10.05.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCHASS Receives $350K Grant to Implement Humanities-Based Certificate ProgramNC 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). Read more > | 10/5/2023 12:00:00 AM |
10.05.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCommunity College Is the Future of Liberal EducationThe Teagle Foundation is one of the few private grant makers funding liberal education programs at community colleges, where Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs offer thousands of students each year the opportunity to engage with transformational texts and enduring questions. Read more > | 10/5/2023 12:00:00 AM |
10.02.2023 | Teagle in the NewsLanguages, 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. Read more > | 10/2/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.18.2023 | Teagle in the NewsGen 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. Read more > | 9/18/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.12.2023 | Teagle in the NewsSLU Continues Jesuit Mission Through University Core With $250,000 Education GrantSaint Louis University will lead a new Cornerstone: Learning for Living program anchored in transformative texts and geared toward STEM students. Read more > | 9/12/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.04.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCollege Students: School Is Not Your JobThe Teagle-supported Great Questions Seminar at Austin Community College offers a humanistic alternative to college careerism. Read more > | 9/4/2023 12:00:00 AM |
09.03.2023 | Teagle in the NewsBy Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture WarsCOLLEGE, Stanford's Cornerstone: Learning for Living program, was scaled to the entire incoming class with support from Teagle and the NEH. Read more > | 9/3/2023 12:00:00 AM |
08.29.2023 | Teagle in the NewsCatawba College receives $75,000 Grant supporting The PursuitTeagle awarded Catawba College a $75,000 grant to support The Pursuit, a humanities program for first-year students. Read more > | 8/29/2023 12:00:00 AM |
08.06.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe liberal arts are alive and well in community collegesTeagle grantee Austin Community College is leading the way in liberal education through its Great Questions Seminar. Read more > | 8/6/2023 12:00:00 AM |
07.09.2023 | Teagle in the NewsNKU receives $250,000 ‘Cornerstone: Learning for Living’ grant, largest of any KY public institutionTeagle has awarded NKU the largest “Cornerstone: Learning for Living” grant of any public institution in the Commonwealth to implement a new general education program. Read more > | 7/9/2023 12:00:00 AM |
07.06.2023 | Teagle in the NewsNKU awarded grant to enhance gen-ed experience for studentsNorthern Kentucky University has been awarded a grant from Teagle to implement a new gen ed program impacting 30% of its undergraduate community. Read more > | 7/6/2023 12:00:00 AM |
07.06.2023 | Teagle in the NewsNKU awarded $250K grant to enhance gen-ed experienceWith support from Teagle, Northern Kentucky University is reimagining its approach to gen ed with a thematic, faculty-led curriculum. Read more > | 7/6/2023 12:00:00 AM |
07.05.2023 | Teagle in the NewsNKU Awarded $250K Grant to Enhance Gen-Ed Experience for StudentsNorthern 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." Read more > | 7/5/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.27.2023 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation/NEH grant awarded to Transylvania to enhance humanities curriculumSupport 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. Read more > | 6/27/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.14.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe Humanities Aren’t Hurting EverywhereAt Lehman College, home to a Teagle-funded transformational text program, enrollment in humanities majors has grown over the last decade. Read more > | 6/14/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.07.2023 | Teagle in the NewsDefining Liberal Education—and How to Advertise ItPaul 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. Read more > | 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM |
06.04.2023 | Teagle in the NewsInside the fight to save American college from runaway careerismTeagle grantee Ursinus College, known for its Common Intellectual Experience program, is cited as "an innovator in the renewal of the liberal arts." Read more > | 6/4/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.25.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe Meaning of SuccessMore than 3,000 Austin Community College students have been impacted by the Teagle-supported Great Questions Seminar, a discussion-based study of transformative texts. Read more > | 5/25/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.16.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThinking toward a thriving planet: Notes from the fieldColorado 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. Read more > | 5/16/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.15.2023 | Teagle in the NewsDa Vinci was a Double MajorRoosevelt 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. Read more > | 5/15/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.12.2023 | Teagle in the NewsShakespeare, Still Our ContemporarySteven 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. Read more > | 5/12/2023 12:00:00 AM |
05.02.2023 | Teagle in the NewsEncouraging Conversations About Enduring QuestionsA Cornerstone: Living for Learning program at Onandaga Community College offers a novel and promising approach to general education grounded in enduring questions. Read more > | 5/2/2023 12:00:00 AM |
04.10.2023 | Teagle in the NewsA Renaissance from BelowThrough 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. Read more > | 4/10/2023 12:00:00 AM |
04.02.2023 | Teagle in the NewsGen Ed: Its Past, Present and Possible FutureUniversities 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. Read more > | 4/2/2023 12:00:00 AM |
03.23.2023 | Teagle in the NewsTed Hadzi-Antich, Austin Community College – Asking the Great Questions at Community CollegesTed 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. Read more > | 3/23/2023 12:00:00 AM |
03.15.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe Defenders of Liberal Education Are Destroying ItRoosevelt 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. Read more > | 3/15/2023 12:00:00 AM |
03.08.2023 | Teagle in the NewsAre 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. Read more > | 3/8/2023 12:00:00 AM |
02.22.2023 | Teagle in the NewsIUP Big Ideas program presenting Roosevelt Montas, 'Rescuing Socrates' authorRoosevelt 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. Read more > | 2/22/2023 12:00:00 AM |
02.15.2023 | Teagle in the NewsTeaching 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. Read more > | 2/15/2023 12:00:00 AM |
02.03.2023 | Teagle in the NewsThe Teagle Foundation Builds Diversity and Access in Liberal ArtsUnder 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. Read more > | 2/3/2023 12:00:00 AM |
12.13.2022 | Teagle in the NewsAI and the Future of Undergraduate WritingPurdue 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. Read more > | 12/13/2022 12:00:00 AM |
12.06.2022 | Teagle in the NewsHappiness class hooks students on more than a feelingStudents 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. Read more > | 12/6/2022 12:00:00 AM |
11.09.2022 | Teagle in the NewsRIT’s College of Liberal Arts receives grant to enhance philosophy and communication offeringsA 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. Read more > | 11/9/2022 12:00:00 AM |
11.08.2022 | Teagle in the NewsEntrevista sobre la subvención "Cornerstone" de la Teagle FoundationCheck 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. Read more > | 11/8/2022 12:00:00 AM |
11.08.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCatawba College brings writer, director, producer of Reggie: A Millennial Depression Comedy to campuStudents 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. Read more > | 11/8/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.27.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCampus Buy-In and Building Consensus for ChangeThis 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. Read more > | 10/27/2022 12:00:00 AM |
10.19.2022 | Teagle in the NewsExcellence in Undergraduate Education Must Include Equity, Says Influential GroupThe 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. Read more > | 10/19/2022 12:00:00 AM |
09.29.2022 | Teagle in the NewsOpen Questions with Andrew DelbancoIn 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. Read more > | 9/29/2022 12:00:00 AM |
09.14.2022 | Teagle in the NewsThe HELIOS Program at UW-PlattevilleThe 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. Read more > | 9/14/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.18.2022 | Teagle in the NewsInnovating at ScaleFunded 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. Read more > | 8/18/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.17.2022 | Teagle in the NewsIUP to receive $200,000 for “Big Idea” ProgramThe “Big Ideas: Transformative Culture and the Professions” program at IUP will integrate and embed the liberal arts into student career preparation. Read more > | 8/17/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.11.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNKU awarded grant to revitalize the humanities in gen edA Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant to Northern Kentucky University will energize the humanities in general education through transformative texts. Read more > | 8/11/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.10.2022 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle/NEH grant provides support to innovate in the undergraduate core curriculumFunded 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. Read more > | 8/10/2022 12:00:00 AM |
08.02.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNSU Receives Grant from The Teagle Foundation and NEHThrough 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. Read more > | 8/2/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.23.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNorthern Kentucky University first in state to receive national planning grant for general educationNorth 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. Read more > | 7/23/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.22.2022 | Teagle in the NewsPenn State Berks faculty receive grant to weave humanities into STEM majorsWith 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. Read more > | 7/22/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.20.2022 | Teagle in the NewsPenn State Berks faculty receive grant to weave humanities into STEM majorsWith 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. Read more > | 7/20/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.14.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCatawba awarded $25,000 grant supporting pursuit scholarshipA 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. Read more > | 7/14/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.12.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCatawba College receives $25,000 grant supporting The PursuitCatawba 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. Read more > | 7/12/2022 12:00:00 AM |
07.11.2022 | Teagle in the NewsNew humanities certificate offers themed pathways for studentsWith 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.
Read more > | 7/11/2022 12:00:00 AM |
05.01.2022 | Teagle in the NewsDo 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. Read more > | 5/1/2022 12:00:00 AM |
04.12.2022 | Teagle in the NewsWhy the Great Books Still MatterRoosevelt 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. Read more > | 4/12/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.30.2022 | Teagle in the NewsEnough With the Culture WarsSupported 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. Read more > | 3/30/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.04.2022 | Teagle in the NewsOh, 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. Read more > | 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.03.2022 | Teagle in the NewsHow America’s broken undergraduate education system can be fixedRoosevelt 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. Read more > | 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM |
03.01.2022 | Teagle in the NewsHow Humanities Play a Vital Role for Community College StudentsA 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. Read more > | 3/1/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.26.2022 | Teagle in the NewsIn 1961, MLK taught a college class. Its syllabus might be contentious todayRoosevelt 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. Read more > | 2/26/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.21.2022 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsBrian Rosenberg on How the Humanities End—and Might Be Saved with Brendan BoyleBrian 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. Read more > | 2/21/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.20.2022 | Teagle in the NewsThe Odyssey of Roosevelt MontásThis 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. Read more > | 2/20/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.18.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCore curriculum: A case for the influence of four key thinkersThis 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. Read more > | 2/18/2022 12:00:00 AM |
02.18.2022 | Teagle in the NewsAn Ode to The Core CurriculumRoosevelt 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. Read more > | 2/18/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.21.2022 | Teagle in the NewsGreat books are still greatRoosevelt 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. Read more > | 1/21/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.20.2022 | Teagle in the NewsGreat Books, Graduate Students, and the Value of Fun in Higher EducationLeonard 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. Read more > | 1/20/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.14.2022 | Staff WritingsGeneral Education and the HumanitiesTeagle 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. Read more > | 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.07.2022 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsThis Is the Way the Humanities EndBrian 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. Read more > | 1/7/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.04.2022 | Teagle in the NewsTeach public school kids the classic booksRoosevelt 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.
Read more > | 1/4/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.03.2022 | Teagle in the NewsCan 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.
Read more > | 1/3/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.03.2022 | Teagle in the NewsRescuing Great Books from the ElitesRead (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. Read more > | 1/3/2022 12:00:00 AM |
01.03.2022 | Teagle in the NewsRoosevelt Montás on the Virtues of a Liberal EducationAn 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. Read more > | 1/3/2022 12:00:00 AM |
12.31.2021 | Teagle in the NewsOpinion: In an acrimonious time, some welcome fresh attention to Socrates and civilized arguingColumnist 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.
Read more > | 12/31/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.17.2021 | Teagle in the NewsYes, the Great Books Make Us Better PeopleIn 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.
Read more > | 12/17/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.15.2021 | Teagle in the NewsDo 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.
Read more > | 12/15/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.14.2021 | Teagle in the NewsEp. 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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12.06.2021 | Teagle in the NewsThe Left Should Defend Classical EducationThis 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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11.16.2021 | Teagle in the NewsWhy the Core Matters for a New GenerationRoosevelt Montás on how if done right, required classes bring campuses together and are a boon to the humanities. Read more > | 11/16/2021 12:00:00 AM |
11.07.2021 | Teagle in the News‘Rescuing Socrates’ Review: Great Books, Greatly MissedA 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. Read more > | 11/7/2021 12:00:00 AM |
10.27.2021 | Teagle in the News'Cornerstone: Learning for Living' Grant Awarded to the SLU University CoreSaint Louis University will build pathways to the humanities in new University Core with Teagle funding. Read more > | 10/27/2021 12:00:00 AM |
10.18.2021 | Staff WritingsRevitalizing the Humanities with General EducationTeagle President Andrew Delbanco and Program Director Loni Bordoloi Pazich on recent successes of Cornerstone: Learning for Living programs. Read more > | 10/18/2021 12:00:00 AM |
09.30.2021 | Teagle in the NewsStanford’s new Civic, Liberal and Global education program awarded an implementation grantAs 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. Read more > | 9/30/2021 12:00:00 AM |
09.20.2021 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsWhy a Liberal Education is Worth DefendingSteven 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.
Read more > | 9/20/2021 12:00:00 AM |
09.02.2021 | Teagle in the News‘Work with hope’ – a poet and classics scholar on facing the flood of bad newsRachel 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. Read more > | 9/2/2021 12:00:00 AM |
08.15.2021 | Teagle in the NewsWhat 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. Read more > | 8/15/2021 12:00:00 AM |
07.19.2021 | Teagle in the NewsClassic Books or Diverse Books? That’s a False BinaryRoosevelt 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. Read more > | 7/19/2021 12:00:00 AM |
06.28.2021 | Teagle in the NewsGreat Questions Seminars changing the way we learn at ACCFunded 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. Read more > | 6/28/2021 12:00:00 AM |
06.23.2021 | Teagle in the NewsFaculty work to revitalize humanities at BerksTwo 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. Read more > | 6/23/2021 12:00:00 AM |
06.02.2021 | Teagle in the NewsTeagle Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities Award Bard College $50,000The 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. Read more > | 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.24.2021 | Teagle in the NewsGrant: Great Works Academic Certificate ProgramA Cornerstone: Living for Learning initiative grant will make core texts in the humanities more widely read by UNLV students. Read more > | 5/24/2021 12:00:00 AM |
05.03.2021 | Teagle's Partner ThoughtsWhy Core Texts Matter to Community College StudentsAndrea 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. Read more > | 5/3/2021 12:00:00 AM |
03.15.2021 | Teagle in the NewsThe Class Every Pre-med Should TakeA 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. Read more > | 3/15/2021 12:00:00 AM |
12.18.2020 | Teagle in the NewsFoundation Chief Andrew Delbanco Wants All Students to Wrestle With Great BooksThe 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. Read more > | 12/18/2020 12:00:00 AM |
11.20.2020 | Teagle in the NewsCan 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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11.10.2020 | Teagle in the NewsHumanities for Everyone: A PlanTeagle 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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10.05.2020 | Teagle in the NewsNational Humanities Alliance WebinarIn 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). Read more > | 10/5/2020 12:00:00 AM |
09.30.2020 | Teagle in the NewsNeeded: A New Rehearsal Space for DemocracyTeagle President Andrew Delbanco and National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Parrish Peede describe how the Cornerstone model reimagines general education. Read more > | 9/30/2020 12:00:00 AM |
09.26.2020 | Teagle in the NewsNEH, Teagle Foundation Launch $7 Million Humanities InitiativePhilanthropy 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. Read more > | 9/26/2020 12:00:00 AM |
09.24.2020 | Teagle in the NewsGrants Aim to "Reinvigorate the Humanities" by Connecting Them to Career GoalsMike Scutari of Inside Philanthropy interviews Teagle Foundation president Andrew Delbanco on the urgent need for the Cornerstone:Learning for Living initiative. Read more > | 9/24/2020 12:00:00 AM |
09.24.2020 | Teagle in the NewsCornerstone: Learning for Living featured in Teaching NewsletterThe Chronicle of Higher Education featured the Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant program in its Teaching Newsletter. Read more > | 9/24/2020 12:00:00 AM |
08.28.2020 | Teagle in the NewsIUP Professor Named Grant RecipientThe 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. Read more > | 8/28/2020 12:00:00 AM |
06.23.2020 | Teagle in the NewsThe General Education Curriculum We NeedSteven Mintz highlights the Teagle-funded Cornerstone program at Purdue University as an example of what a holistic general eduction program can achieve. Read more > | 6/23/2020 12:00:00 AM |
06.04.2020 | Teagle in the NewsThe 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. Read more > | 6/4/2020 12:00:00 AM |
04.01.2020 | Teagle in the NewsThe Pandemic’s Most Powerful Writer Is a SurgeonTeagle 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. Read more > | 4/1/2020 12:00:00 AM |
12.09.2019 | Teagle in the NewsGiant Leaps for the Liberal Arts at PurdueThis 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. Read more > | 12/9/2019 12:00:00 AM |
11.10.2019 | Teagle in the NewsA Modern Great Books Solution to the Humanities’ Enrollment WoesThis article from The Chronicle of Higher Education showcases the background, results, and future of Purdue University's Cornerstone program. Read more > | 11/10/2019 12:00:00 AM |
11.04.2019 | Teagle in the NewsCan You Get Students Interested in the Humanities Again? These Colleges May Have It Figured OutThis article highlights how Purdue's Cornerstone program has helped revive liberal arts enrollment at a STEM-oriented university. Read more > | 11/4/2019 12:00:00 AM |
04.18.2019 | Teagle in the NewsThe Future of Gen EdA 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. Read more > | 4/18/2019 12:00:00 AM |