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June 24, 2008Teagle Foundation Announces Over $3.5 Million in New Grants: Spotlight on Improving Student Learning at the Undergraduate Level |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: Today, the Teagle Foundation announced 30 new grants totaling over $3.5 million to fund projects involving more than 45 colleges, universities and other institutions in higher education. Fifteen of the grants aim to develop models for advancing student engagement and learning through processes of systematic improvement. "These grants recognize that liberal arts colleges are poised and ready to develop ways of systematically improving undergraduate learning and engagement," said W. Robert Connor, President of the Teagle Foundation. The Foundation's Outcomes and Assessment initiative is based on the belief that nothing has more potential to affect students' educational experiences than programs that build on the information gained through appropriate and systematic assessment of what they learn. The Teagle Awards for Systematic Improvements in Student Learning were developed to assist liberal arts colleges in cultivating exemplary and imaginative programs that advance the way students learn in the classroom. Teagle's Fresh Thinking initiative encourages sustained analysis of ideas and issues that can help strengthen and define the goals of liberal education. Teagle's College-Community Connections program supports partnerships between community-based organizations in New York City and area colleges and universities. These partnerships enable the development of academic programming for young people to better help them prepare for college. We provide direct, immediate access to mainstream national media for 600 colleges, universities, medical centers, public-policy groups and other leading nonprofit organizations.
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