Overview

The Foundation supports and strengthens liberal leaning, primarily through our grantmaking programs, but also through the meetings we convene, the communities of practice we seek to cultivate, and the resources available on our website.

Listenings and Virtual Listenings

Guided but informal discussions called Listenings help us think through issues in higher education, as well as shape our policies and strategies. These have been largely successful, and we have on occasion also run Virtual Listenings, secure online discussions about designated issues in liberal education to which we invite small groups of participants. Lastly, once the Foundation has made a round of grants, we generally gather our grantees for day-long meetings to share ideas and information, and to determine whether they are synergies among the projects. In these ways, the Foundation hopes to create communities of practice whose members can learn from each other, and from which the Foundation can learn.

Grantees' Publications

Disseminating widely the knowledge generated by our grantees is a priority for the Foundation. At the end of a given grant period, we ask our grantees to create White Papers detailing project findings that will be of interest and use to other individuals and institutions committed to strengthening liberal education. While White Papers can take the form of written documents, we encourage our grantees to think creatively about presenting the results of their work. The Foundation reviews these submissions, after which we work closely with grantees to disseminate the White Papers through our website—on our Grantees' Publications page—and perhaps through conferences or publications.

Teagle Essays

Written by Foundation staff or commissioned by the Foundation, the essays in this section explore the direction and programmatic goals of our work, as well as broad issues in higher education.

Additional Resources

We also maintain a Resources page—a working bibliography of and, whenever possible, links to important articles, websites, and other resources on liberal education, outcomes and assessment, religious work, college access, and classical studies—that may be helpful to those concerned with strengthening liberal learning.