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March 2014 Newsletter


FROM THE PRESIDENT   

 
My eight months as president of the Teagle Foundation have been both intense and highly rewarding. I have had the opportunity to engage more deeply with the issues surrounding liberal education and to see the energy and creativity of so many people on campuses across the country. It has also been a privilege to follow Richard Morrill in the presidency, since he provided such thoughtful and strategically focused leadership to the Foundation for three years. We are delighted that the Foundation will continue to benefit from his wisdom and experience for the additional year he will serve as a member of our Board of Directors.

It has been a challenge to weigh the many different ways the Foundation could contribute to furthering teaching and learning, knowing that we are a small foundation and must be very targeted in our efforts. Although this is not a new issue for us, as the world of higher education becomes more complex and the question of student learning more prominent on campuses and in national discourse, our challenge of how to best make a difference comes into even sharper focus.

We see connections and collaboration as a key way to strengthen our impact. Our grants are made to groups of collaborating institutions so that they can create or enhance learning communities of faculty and staff both within and across institutions. We also partner with our grantees to support the dissemination of what they have learned through their networks and our own "convenings." At the same time, we see the value of working with other foundations to intensify our reach and impact, and look forward to deepening these relationships. I further discuss these themes of "Philanthropy of the Middle Range" in our newly released 2013 Annual Report.

Every year at the Teagle Foundation seems like an exceptionally full one, and a lot has transpired since the summer. On November 4-5, 2013, we hosted a convening of our College Community Connections (CCC) program, which brings community-based organizations into partnership with colleges and universities to prepare high school students from
disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve the benefits of a liberal arts undergraduate education. This two-day meeting gathered representatives of the funded partnerships as well as higher education leaders, funders, commentators, and others deeply engaged in the work of college access and success. We heard from experts in the field, discussed successes and challenges within the projects, shared ideas as a community of practice, and considered possibilities for sustaining and replicating the program beyond the life of the grant cycle. I encourage you to review the report of the convening activities written by former Teagle Program Officer, Cheryl Ching.

We have had some staff changes here in the Foundation office, with Program Director Annie Bezbatchenko moving to Toronto this past fall for work/family reasons and now serving as Consulting Associate at the highly regarded search firm Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates. Her successor, Loni Bordoloi Pazich, will be joining us in June after she completes a Fulbright grant to study higher education in Brazil.  Loni earned her bachelor of arts in English at the University of California-Los Angeles, her master's degree in Education from the University of Southern California, and will receive her doctorate in Higher and Postsecondary Education at New York University this spring. In the interim, we are being very well served, as we have been in the past, with consulting services from Madeleine Green who is also a senior fellow at the International Association of Universities and at NAFSA: The Association of International Educators. She previously served as a vice president at the American Council on Education.

My work with the Teagle Foundation as board member and now president provides wonderfully affirming evidence that liberal education - the gold standard of American higher education - is much more resilient than many naysayers suggest, and that faculty and staff across the country are truly engaged with the question of how to improve the learning experience for all students.  I look forward to our continued work together.
  

Sincerely,

Judith Shapiro 

IN THIS ISSUE
From the President
News from the Foundation
Recent Grants

   


2013 Annual Report

 


The Foundation is pleased to announce the release of its
2013 Annual Report featuring President Judith Shapiro's essay,
Philanthropy of the Middle of the Range.
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Recent Board Appointments 

 

The Foundation is honored to welcome  

to its Board of Directors. 

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 Staff Publications

  

  The Chronicle of

Higher Education
Judith Shapiro,

President

 

Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning   

  Madeleine Green,  

Sr. Program Consultant &  

Annie Bezbatchenko,

Program Consultant

 

It Ain't What I Say 

Inside Higher Ed 

  Judith Shapiro,

President    
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Teagle Convening: College Community Connections 

 November 4-5, 2013   

  Convening Summary Report 

written by  
Cheryl Ching
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Grantee Highlights  

A White Paper on Undergraduate Literacy and the Future of Literary Studies
Mills College, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Santa Cruz, and Stanford University

Guidelines for Judging the Effectiveness of Assessing Student Learning
Loyola University Chicago   

RECENT GRANTS


$75,000 over 22 months to the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) for the project, "Support for Forums and Publications for Its Centennial Year" (more details)
 
$50,000 over 12 months to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) for the project, "Improving Board Oversight of Educational Quality: New Dissemination Strategies" (more details)

$25,000 over 10 months to Dominican University of California for the project "Embed Instruction through MOOCs into a High Impact Environment" (Planning Grant) (more details)

$25,000 over 6 months to Hartwick College for the project, "Promoting Technological Innovation at Liberal Arts Colleges" (Planning Grant) (more details)

$260,000 over 36 months to Harvard Graduate School of Education for the project, "Aligned Programs for Liberal Arts and Sciences in the 21st Century" (more details)

$155,000 over 25 months to Teachers College, Columbia University for the project, "MetroCiti: A Multi-Campus Institute for Improving Teaching for Students' Liberal Learning in Urban Colleges and Universities" (more details)

$215,000 over 36 months to the University of Kansas, Park University, Elon University, and Rockhurst University for the project, "Creating Sustained Change in Practices of Engaged and Active Learning in Humanities Instruction" (more details)

$270,000 over 36 months to the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education for the project, "In Pursuit of Curricular Efficiency" (more details)

$150,000 over 24 months to the University of Texas at Austin for the project, "Ethics Integration Initiative" (more details)

$75,000 over 36 months to Washington University in St. Louis for the project, "Discovering an Impediment to Undergraduate Learning, Validating Effective Teaching Interventions & Disseminating the New Knowledge" (more details

 
A Larger Vision for Student Learning: Education for Civic and Moral Responsibility 

 

"A Larger Vision" is an invitational initiative that provides grants to model courses and curricular programs that address some of the larger aims of liberal education. It is designed to support projects that equip students to address the "great questions" of meaning, value, purpose, and personal and social responsibility that are especially pointed in students of traditional college age.  

 

For more details on each of the "A Larger Vision" grants listed below, please click here.    

$270,000 over 49 months to Community College National Center for Community Engagement  (led by Kapi'olani Community College) for the project "Student Learning for Civic Capacity: Stimulating Moral, Ethical, and Civic Engagement for Learning that Lasts"


$280,000 over 36 months to Columbia University, Yale University & University of Chicago for the project, "Core Curricula in the Research University: Challenges and Prospects"   

 

College-Community Connections (CCC) 

  

Teagle recognizes that multiple efforts are necessary to ensure that all students are prepared for and have access to college. The Foundation has therefore funded a number of ambitious college preparatory programs.   

 

For more details on each of the CCC grants listed below, please click here.     

$50,000 over 24 months to The Boys' Club of New York for the project, "Independent School Placement (ISP) Program"  

 

$50,000 over 24 months to East Harlem Tutorial Program for the project, "Out-of-School-Time (OST) Program: University Program" 

 

$50,000 over 24 months to East Side House Settlement for the project, "College Retention Advising Program"  

 

$50,000 over 24 months to Fresh Air Fund for the project, "College Connections Program"  

 

$30,000 over 24 months to Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House for the project, "Riis Academy College Access Program (CAP) Expansion" 

 

$50,000 over 24 months to Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America for the project, "The New York City Leadership Corps"   



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