Teagle Essays

The essays featured on this page have been written by Foundation staff or commissioned by the Foundation. Both as a group and individually, they articulate and explore the issues that underpin our grantmaking, at times serving to map where we've been and at others to chart a way forward. More than anything else, they are contributions to the ongoing work of program development at Teagle, one more way that we engage with the higher education community to develop and test ideas to strengthen undergraduate education.

Essays and selected writings by Teagle's President Richard Morrill can be found here.

• W. Robert Connor, Last Bastion of Liberal Education? (July 24, 2006; originally published in Inside Higher Ed)
• W. Robert Connor, From Foxes to Hedgehogs: Taking Liberal Education to the Next Level—Valuing our Values (March 31, 2006)
• Roger T. Kaufman and Geoffrey Woglom, Financial Changes and Measures of Success Among the Second Tier of Top Liberal Arts Colleges (March 2005)
• W. Robert Connor, Report on a study by Roger Kaufman and Geoffrey Woglom on Graduation Rates and Ph.D. Production in Liberal Arts Colleges (December 13, 2004)
• W. Robert Connor, Earliest Evidence for Liberal Education (November 9, 2004)

• W. Robert Connor and Cheryl Ching, Can Learning Be Improved When Budgets Are in the Red? (April 25, 2010; published in The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• W. Robert Connor, When the Budget Sinks, Can Student Learning Still Rise? A Fable (November 7, 2009)
• W. Robert Connor, Talking the Talk, Then Walking the Walk (September 25, 2009; published in Inside Higher Ed)
• W. Robert Connor, As an Economy Measure, the Light at the End of the Tunnel Has Been Turned Off (June 11, 2009)
• W. Robert Connor, The View from My Perch: A Teagle Perspective on Improving Higher Education Now (February 10, 2009)
• Donna Heiland, Educational Narratives, or, What do we know and how do we know it? (January 5, 2008)
• W. Robert Connor, Do as I say, Not as I did (December 7, 2006)

• W. Robert Connor, A Second Adolescence: Two Big Questions and Where They Belong (February 1, 2008)
• W. Robert Connor, Watching Charlotte Climb: Little Steps toward Big Questions (Spring 2007; originally published in Liberal Education)
• W. Robert Connor, The Right Time and Place for Big Questions (June 9, 2006; orginally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• W. Robert Connor, Where Have All the Big Questions Gone? (December 12, 2005)
• W. Robert Connor, Big Questions? (October 11, 2005)
• Joel Carpenter, The Evangelical Student Today (September 2005)
• George D. Kuh and Robert M. Gonyea, Exploring the Relationships Between Spirituality, Liberal Learning, and College Student Engagement (July 11, 2005)

• W. Robert Connor, What's Happened to the Major in Liberal Education? (Spring 2009; published in Liberal Education)
• W. Robert Connor, The Role of the Undergraduate Major in Advancing Liberal Learning. (January 4, 2008)
• W. Robert Connor, Give Majors an Overhaul (November 15, 2005)