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Lee S. Shulman announced that he would retire as Carnegie president effective August 2008.
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Carnegie Calls for Change in Education of Lawyers
How effectively does legal education integrate the moral obligations of lawyering with its intellectual and clinical demands? In Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law, which was released in January 2007, authors William M. Sullivan, Anne Colby, Judith Welch Wegner, Lloyd Bond and Lee S. Shulman answer this and probe the gaps and unintended consequences of key aspects of the law school experience and offer recommendations for needed improvement. Educating Lawyers was highlighted in diverse publications and media outlets, including The National Law Journal (January 7, 2007), The Wall Street Journal (May 30, 2007), and The New York Times (October 31, 2007). In continuing its work to strengthen the law curriculum, Carnegie co-hosted a convening with Stanford Law School in December. The event marked the beginning of a three-year project whose goal is to enable the 10 participating law schools to learn from each other about reforming legal education and to create a momentum for change that can reach beyond individual institutions. Educating Lawyers provided the structure and starting point for the discussions.
Carnegie and AAC&U Released Report to Strengthen Student Learning
The online report, "Integrative Learning: Opportunities to Connect," produced by Carnegie and Association of American Colleges and Universities, is based on a three-year national project involving 10 campuses working together to encourage and strengthen students' ability to pursue learning in more intentional, connected ways. The report contains video clips from Carnegie President Lee S. Shulman and AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider, multimedia accounts of work by each of the campuses, essays by project staff on various strategies for fostering integrative learning, and lessons for campus change.
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How Can Liberal Education Give Business Majors a Boost?
An increasing number of undergraduates are majoring in professional fields, particularly business. To prepare them to become leaders in an increasingly competitive and global marketplace, Carnegie launched the Business, Entrepreneurship and Liberal Learning project. The three-year project will examine how to integrate the benefits of a liberal arts education into undergraduate business programs and will focus on developing models that schools can use to enrich their students' educations and transform their business programs.
A Different Way to Think About Teaching and Learning
Carnegie Perspectives, essays that focus on a different way to think about issues in education, increased its circulation to 30,000 "subscribers." The electronically distributed commentary was published 10 times and included essays on topics such as quantitative literacy, basic skills education, accountability and integrated education.
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Institutions Enlisted to Reclaim Education Doctorate
Twenty-one education schools were selected to participate in the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate, a three-year initiative of Carnegie and the Council of Academic Deans in Research Education Institutions to reclaim the education doctorate.
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Carnegie and Noyce Launch Professional Development for Writing Website
In an effort to strengthen literacy achievement in K-5 students, Carnegie and The Noyce Foundation launched a multimedia website that offers professional development for classroom teachers. The online tool allows educators to examine effective literacy teaching practices across grade levels and in multiple settings.
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Carnegie Urges Higher Ed to Prepare Students for Political Engagement
Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement, released in November, examines the serious problem of political illiteracy in today's college students and addresses how to conduct college-level political education in ways that are morally legitimate, consistent with core academic values, and that will prepare students as thoughtful, responsible and creative citizens. Written by Anne Colby, Elizabeth Beaumont, Thomas Ehrlich and Josh Corngold, and based on results from the Carnegie Political Engagement Project study, the book also serves as a core text for the American Democracy Project's political engagement initiative. Co-sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and The New York Times, and with leadership from Carnegie, the initiative works with campuses that are committed to ensuring their students gain the understanding, skills and motivation needed to be politically engaged. The project is featured in and information is disseminated through The New York Times.
Assessment: It's Not Just for Experts Anymore
A new microsite on the Carnegie website that features a collection of short essays by Senior Scholar and psychometrician Lloyd Bond was launched in November. The essays demystify assessment and encourage rich discussion and reflection, and are introduced by Carnegie Vice President Pat Hutchings.
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Carnegie Elects Two New Board Members
Rob Reich (Stanford School of Education) and Elaine Tuttle Hansen (Bates College) were elected to the Carnegie Board of Trustees for four-year terms at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16.
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The 2007 U.S. Professors of the Year are Named by CASE, Carnegie
The Carnegie Foundation and The Council for Advancement and Support of Education announced the winners of the 2007 Professors of the Year Award in November in Washington, D.C. The program honors the nation's best undergraduate teachers for their dedication to teaching, commitment to students and innovative instructional methods. This year's national winners were Rosemary Karr (Collin County Community College), Glenn Ellis (Smith College), Carlos Spaht (Louisiana State University) and Christopher Sorensen (Kansas State University).
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Illustrating Intentional Learning
As more students enter higher education unprepared, the need for powerful learning experiences has grown more acute. In December, Carnegie's Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges program made available a new set of websites that share strategies to foster "intentional learning" on the part of math and English students at the pre-collegiate level. Faculty from eleven SPECC community colleges documented their pedagogical work online in this new "Windows on Learning" gallery.
The Formation of Scholars
The Formation of Scholars: Re-thinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century, released at the Council of Graduate Schools annual meeting in December, explores the current state of doctoral education in the United States and shows how practices and elements of doctoral programs can be made more powerful by relying on principles of progressive development, integration and collaboration. Written by George E. Walker, Chris M. Golde, Laura Jones, Andrea Conklin Bueschel and Pat Hutchings, and derived from a five-year look at doctoral education by the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, The Formation of Scholars urges educators to consider how graduate programs can constructively grapple with questions of purpose. The Chronicle of Higher Education included an excerpt of The Formation of Scholars in an article written by the book's authors; and, separately discussed the work in an article entitled "Carnegie Foundation Creates New 'Owner's Manual' for Doctoral Programs' (December 14, 2007).
Carnegie in the News
Carnegie scholars discussed the Foundation's programs, gave their perspectives, and lent their expertise to a host of articles, news stories and shows this past year. Alex McCormick, who directed The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, examined U.S. News and World Report's annual college rankings in a May 10 Inside Higher Ed article; while Senior Scholar Ann Lieberman discussed how teacher-leaders might help their peers and students address the needs of a changing society, especially in the area of writing in the September issue of Educational Leadership. And on Jan. 1, Carnegie President Lee S. Shulman compared marbled pastrami to a well-lived life, a well-designed institution, and even a healthy relationship on NPR's "This I Believe."
Carnegie Community Event Series
Carnegie President Lee S. Shulman, Senior Scholar Alexander C. McCormick, Consulting Scholar Amy Driscoll, California State University Monterey Bay Director of Service Learning Seth Pollack, and Santa Clara University President Paul Locatelli presented "Colleges and Universities Engaged with Community," on Jan. 23, as part of the 2007 Community Event Series at Carnegie on engagement in undergraduate education. The event focused on Carnegie's new Community Engagement Classification, which recognizes 76 U.S. colleges and universities for their extensive efforts in community-engaged teaching, scholarship and outreach activities.
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The community conversation, "Educating College Students for Political Understanding, Skill and Engagement," featured Carnegie President Lee S. Shulman, Senior Scholar Anne Colby, Senior Scholar Thomas Ehrlich, De Anza College President Brian Murphy, and Stanford in Government Chair Tyler Kirtley. The March 20 conversation included details from Carnegie's Political Engagement Project, as well as a discussion of Murphy's efforts to infuse civic and political learning into students' experiences, and Kirtley's efforts to bring student political awareness to campuses.
Carnegie Senior Scholar and Knowledge Media Laboratory Director Toru Iiyoshi and former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation, John Seely Brown, presented "Engaged Technology-Empowered Communities of Practice: Learning to Learn, Learning to Teach," on May 29. The event examined ways that knowledge-sharing and social-networking technology enable communities of students and instructors to better learn and teach by harnessing a growing number of open educational resources.
