Overview

President's Essay

Resources

Grants, 2007 - 2008

Outcomes and Assessment

Grants by Program Area:

Grants to Consortia of Colleges and Universities

Grants for Research-based Assessment Projects

Grants for Collaborative Assessment Projects

Grants for the Systematic Improvement of Undergraduate Education at Research Universities

(co-sponsored with the Spencer Foundation)
  • Duke University
    $246,960 over 54 months
    To organize and lead a collaborative research project aimed at fostering a culture of experimentation and evidence for undergraduate education at research universities

  • Participating Campuses:

    • Carnegie Mellon University
      $25,200 over 36 months
      Using argument diagramming in freshman writing courses
    • Duke University
      $40,000 over 36 months
      Enhancing writing and critical thinking
    • Georgetown University
      $25,000 over 36 months
      Threshold of writing project
    • Indiana University
      $40,000 over 36 months
      The history learning project: Decoding critical thinking and writing
    • Pennsylvania State University
      $25,000 over 36 months
      Excellence in communication certificate: Integrating ethics into teaching of environmental science, economics, and policy.
    • The University of California at Berkeley
      $45,000 over 36 months
      An active learning model for enhancing writing in sociology;
      Improving critical thinking through methodological training in an interdisciplinary context
    • The University of California at Davis
      $45,000 over 36 months
      Improvement of writing as an intellectual skills; Critical thinking and visual imagery
    • The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      $40,000 over 36 months
      Enhancing traditional and innovative approaches to advanced composition in academic disciplines
    • The University of Kansas at Lawrence
      $40,000 over 36 months
      Enhancing research and writing skills through instructional design teams
    • The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
      $45,000 over 36 months
      The impact of metacognitive strategies within writing in the disciplines: Experiments to improve writing and critical thinking
    • The University of Nebraska at Lincoln
      $25,000 over 36 months
      Piloting a general education writing assessment system
    • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      $40,000 over 36 months
      Investigating synergies between research and writing: CI-GFC courses at UNC-Chapel Hill
    • University of Southern California
      $25,000 over 36 months
      Technology at the service of writing and critical thinking

Grants for the Systematic Improvement of Student Learning at Liberal Arts Colleges

  • College of Saint Benedict / Saint John's University
    $149,667 over 48 months
    Systematic assessment: Building capacity and closing the loop
  • Earlham College
    $149,577 over 48 months
    Creating and implementing ongoing general education learning goal assessment
  • Hampshire College, Bard College, Bennington College, Colorado College, New College of Florida, Smith College, and Wellesley College
    $145,544 over 48 months
    Assessing the senior thesis to improve teaching and learning
  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    $150,000 over 36 months
    Reshaping faculty culture: Evidence-based transformation in student learning
  • Hope College
    $148,560 over 48 months
    Systematic improvement of student learning
  • Juniata College
    $149,500 over 36 months
    Systematic improvement in student learning via the establishment of a cost-effective scholarship of teaching and learning center
  • Kalamazoo College
    $150,000 over 48 months
    Transforming Kalamazoo College through multi-layered and systematic improvement of student learning
  • Middlebury College
    $143,800 over 48 months
    Assessing student progression: Writing in the disciplines
  • Occidental College
    $150,000 over 36 months
    Academic support assessment project
  • Randolph-Macon College
    $25,000 over 12 months
    Systematic improvements in student learning (planning grant)
  • Skidmore College
    $150,000 over 48 months
    Writing in the majors: Increasing student engagement through writing
  • St. Lawrence University
    $150,000 over 48 months
    Developing a process model for systematically assessing and improving liberal education: The St. Lawrence University diversity requirement as case study
  • St. Olaf College, Carleton College, and Macalester College
    $150,000 over 36 months
    CALL and response: Small-scale innovations informing large-scale improvements in student learning
  • Trinity College
    $25,000 over 12 months
    Faculty-driven learning assessment at Trinity College (planning grant)
  • Whittier College
    $150,000 over 36 months
    Systematic improvement in student learning

Fresh Thinking for Liberal Education

Collegia on Student Learning led by Consortia of Liberal Arts Colleges

  • Associated Colleges of the Midwest
    $150,000 over 34 months
    Collegium on Student Learning
  • Associated Colleges of the South
    $10,000 over 6 months
    Planning Grant for Collegium on Student Learning
  • Great Lakes College Association
    $150,000 over 30 months
    Pathways to Learning
  • Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education
    $148,950 over 34 months
    Creating Active Pathways to Student Learning

Collegia on Student Learning at Research Universities

  • Brown University, Connecticut College, Rhode Island Schools of Design, and Wellesley College
    $112,344 over 36 months
    Using cognitive principles to enhance graduate and undergraduate learning in independent research projects
  • Columbia University
    $149,990 over 36 months
    Collegium on student learning
  • Indiana University
    $150,000 over 39 months
    Collegium on inquiry in action
  • Rice University and the University of Texas Medical Center
    $149,997 over 36 months
    Collegium on student learning
  • Tufts University
    $149,844 over 36 months
    A teacher's collegium to design, implement, evaluate, and revise teaching innovations to improve students learning
  • The University of Michigan
    $149,600 over 36 months
    Distinctions, intersections, and collaborations: An interdisciplinary collegium on applying the science of learning
  • Yale University and Haskins Laboratories
    $149,991 over 36 months
    Collegium on student learning

College-Community Connections

Grants for Partnerships between Community-Based Organizations and Colleges / Universities

  • Columbia University and Double Discovery Center
    $16,678 over 12 months
    A Partnership between Columbia and DDC
  • Drew University and Union Settlement Association
    $25,000 over 12 months
    A Partnership between Union Settlement and Drew University
  • The New School (Eugene Lang College) and East Side House Settlement
    $25,000 over 12 months
    A Partnership between the Institute for Urban Education at Eugene Lang College and East Side House
  • New York University and Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America
    $25,000 over 12 months
    Beyond the Window
  • Pace University and the Boys' Club of New York
    $12,000 over 12 months
    Opportunitas in Action: Film, Writing, and Discovery of Self

Grants to Community-Based Organizations for College Preparation

  • East Harlem Tutorial Program
    $40,000 over 12 months
  • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House
    $15,000 over 12 months
  • Community for Education Foundation / Overcoming Obstacles
    $15,000 over 12 months
  • Project Reach Youth
    $15,000 over 12 months
Financials