RECENT GRANTS
Outcomes and Assessment
Engaging Evidence Grants
$220,000 over 16 months to the Council of Independent Colleges to create a network of private colleges and universities systematically trained with the knowledge they need to more fully use their assessment data to improve student learning (more details).
$200,000 over 24 months to Agnes Scott College and Davidson College to enhance student learning among the colleges' first-generation and underpresented minority students, especially during students' first year of college (more details).
$300,000 over 29 months to Bucknell University, Dickinson College, and Lafayette College to enhance diversity and diversity education (more details).
$200,000 over 24 months to Dartmouth College and Brown University to work toward embedding faculty development and learning-centered practices into departmental structures (more details).
$199,234 over 24 months to Wesleyan University and Amherst College to examine existing data on student writing and develop robust pedagogical support for faculty and new courses that incorporate that pedagogy (more details).
$200,000 over 24 months to Xavier University of Louisiana and Dillard University to improve student performance in select first-year and developmental courses that work toward key learning outcomes as part of an overall retention effort (more details).
$200,000 over 30 months to Willamette University and Lewis & Clark College to use existing data to implement two distinct programmatic interventions that have as their aim the improvement of students' quantitative reasoning and skills (more details).
$200,000 over 25 months to Wofford College and Elon University to enhance student learning by making assessment evidence more transparent, accessible, and actionable at the level of academic and co-curricular departments (more details).
Planning Grants: Engaging Evidence
$70,000 over 12 months to Gettysburg College, Union College, and Washington and Lee University to focus on building increased engagement as well as enhanced integrative thinking among their students (more details).
$50,000 over 10 months to University of Puget Sound and Whitman College to undertake the planning phase of a project that will develop and use assessments of major-specific senior capstones to refine department and program outcomes and in so doing, improve students' academic experiences (more details).
Other Outcomes and Assessment Grants
$250,000 over 24 months to University of Southern California, Loyola Marymount University-Los Angeles, and Whittier College to expand transfer pathways into private postsecondary institutions for underrepresented community college students (more details).
Fresh Thinking
Faculty Work and Student Learning in the 21st Century
$30,000 over 24 months to University of Southern California to conduct a modified Delphi policy study with experts to problem solve and generate solutions for non-tenure track faculty majorities and enhanced student learning (more details)
Planning Grants: Faculty Work and Student Learning in the 21st Century
$20,000 over 6 months to the Association of American Colleges and Universities to study the relevant scholarly literature on integrative learning, conduct interviews with leaders at a dozen universities that have focused on making integrative learning a key focus, and hold a national meeting informed by this prior work (more details).
$15,000 over 6 months to the Associated Colleges of the Midwest to engage in an intensive planning process that will begin with a day-long meeting of the Deans of is member colleges to idenify the specific project centered on faculty work and student learning (more details).
$14,902 over 6 months to the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges to strengthen student learning by sharing disciplinary expertise across campuses, focusing especially on developing a network of expertise on which students can draw for undergraduate research projects (more details).
$15,000 over 6 months to the Great Lakes Colleges Association to form a network of faculty fellows who will - in small teams - visit the consortium's member campuses to work with interested colleges on developing innovative teaching practices based in current research on how people learn (more details).
$15,000 over 6 months to Imagining America to explore the potential of "civic professionalism" - understood as a bridging of civic and professional life, of practical and intellectual learning - for strengthening teaching and learning in the arts and humanities (more details).
$15,000 over 6 months to the Independent College Enterprise to develop a course model by which a course taught by an experienced faculty member at one institution is available at the others via web-based technology, with junior faculty or graduate students monitoring the course at those other institutions (more details).
$15,000 over 6 months to the New American Colleges and Universities to: (1) develop a consortial plan for faculty professional development that acknowledges and rewards faculty members for their effectiveness in teaching and student learning and (2) identify concrete ways to measure and evaluate faculty work in light of expanding 21st century expectations, especially in non-standard learning environments (more details).
Other Fresh Thinking Projects
$75,000 over 24 months to The Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program to disseminate the recommendations from the book, Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession, to disseminate the book's recommendations by holding meetings for institutions to help them implement the key concepts of the book in their own business and liberal arts programs (more details).
$25,000 over 12 months to Reacting to the Past to assist with the creation of a sustainable business model for Reacting, an innovative, award-winning curriculum in which students participate in role-playing games set in historical periods of great importance (more details).
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