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The Teagle Foundation today announced 15 new grants totaling just under $500,000 to fund collaborative projects involving over 35 colleges, universities, and educational institutions. Much of the funding will extend the Foundation's Outcomes and Assessment initiative, which explores the potential of faculty-led value-added assessment. In addition to 12 collaborative planning grants in assessment, one grant will support the Council for Aid to Education as it convenes a consortium of 40 research universities to forward its Collegiate Learning Assessment project. A further grant to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for its "Template Project" will fund the development of an information structure for the humanities, similar to what has long existed for the sciences. Read more from this post.