Printer-friendly versionTony Bryk Named Carnegie President
The Carnegie Board named Anthony S. Bryk, whose work has informed and inspired school reform efforts, the next president of the Foundation, effective September 2008.
Carnegie Invites Institutions to Apply for 2008 Community Engagement Classification
The Foundation invited colleges and universities with an institutional focus on community engagement to apply for the elective classification, previously developed and offered in 2006 as part of an extensive restructuring of The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
Carnegie Foundation Rethinks the Future of Doctoral Education
A five-year look at doctoral education by Carnegie examined the challenges—shifting student demographics, new kinds of competition, growing pressures for accountability, and shrinking public investment—facing doctoral programs in the United States. The challenges facing students of those programs—high attrition and disillusionment—were also explored.
In The Formation of Scholars: Re-thinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century, a 2008 book derived from the work of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID), the authors urge educators to consider how graduate programs can constructively grapple with questions about what they do, why, and with what success.
Carnegie Calls for a New Model of Undergraduate Teaching
Carnegie calls for a new model of undergraduate teaching focused on the interdependence of liberal education and professional preparation to not only develop the intellectual capacity of students, but also to prepare them to serve and act responsibly in the world.
In A New Agenda: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice, Carnegie Senior Scholar William M. Sullivan and former consulting scholar Matthew S. Rosin propose that undergraduate education must move beyond "critical thinking" to the idea of "practical reasoning" as a focal point for curriculum and teaching. To do so, they present a new agenda that integrates teaching practices from the liberal arts—which develop students' ability to assume responsibility for their purposes and identity—with those from professional education, which stress competence and practice.
The Carnegie Teaching & Learning Commons: Using Digital Tools to Build Educators' Knowledge
The Foundation announced The Carnegie Teaching & Learning Commons, a website that uses emerging technologies and new media to promote knowledge building and sharing among educators.
Carnegie and MIT Press Make New Book Available Online
Despite the diversity of open education initiatives, tools and resources that aim to make educational assets freely available online—from well-packaged course materials to simple games—educators have not taken full advantage of shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of others.
In response, The Carnegie Foundation and The MIT Press published Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, edited by Toru Iiyoshi, former Carnegie Senior Scholar, and MIT's M.S. Vijay Kumar.
A Different Way to Think About Developmental Education
In partnership with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Carnegie examines the teaching and learning challenges that face developmental education in a set of reports and products based on the three year, multi-site action research project Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC).
Carnegie Foundation Elects Four New Board Members
The Foundation elected Larry Berger, David K. Cohen, Paul Romer and Beverly Daniel Tatum to its Board of Trustees for four-year terms. They took office at the Foundation's annual Board meeting in Washington, D.C., on November 20, 2008.
2008 U.S. Professors of the Year Named by CASE, Carnegie
Along with the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Carnegie announced that four college and university educators who actively involve their undergraduate students in hands-on research are the national winners of the 2008 U.S. Professors of the Year Awards. The awards recognize professors for their influence on teaching and their commitment to undergraduate students. 2008 national winners were Jerusha B. Detweiler-Bedell (Lewis & Clark College), Eugenia Paulus (North Hennepin Community College), Michael Wesch (Kansas State University), and Wei R. Chen (University of Central Oklahoma). In addition to the four national winners, state-level Professors of the Year were recognized in 44 states, the District of Columbia and Guam.
Carnegie Selects Colleges and Universities for 2008 Community Engagement Classification
Carnegie selected 119 U.S. colleges and universities for its 2008 Community Engagement Classification. These institutions joined the 76 institutions identified in the 2006 selection process.
Carnegie in the News
Carnegie scholars past and present contributed their perspectives and expertise to a variety of news stories this past year. Articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The American, Education Week, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy all discussed the selection of Tony Bryk as the Foundation's new president, while the 2007 book Educating Lawyers was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, Forbes Magazine, and The National Law Journal, among many others.
Senior Scholar William M. Sullivan and former consulting scholar Matthew S. Rosin contributed the article "Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice" to Inside Higher Ed. Another 2007 book, Educating for Democracy, appeared in articles in The Christian Science Monitor and the NACADA Journal in spring 2008. Senior Scholar Anne Colby contributed an article, "The Place of Political Learning in College," to the Spring/Summer issue of Peer Review magazine, while two Carnegie programs, the Integrative Learning Project and Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges, were featured in the article, "Putting the Community into College" in Inside Higher Ed.
Carnegie Community Event Series
Carnegie Community Event Examines Assessment of Education
Former Carnegie President Lee S. Shulman, Former Carnegie Senior Scholar Lloyd Bond, and Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Associate Director Barbara Wright led a community conversation on "Getting In and Getting Out of College: The Many Roles of Assessment" on Jan. 29, 2008, at Foundation.
Carnegie Community Event Examines Legal Education
Carnegie Senior Scholars Thomas Ehrlich and William M. Sullivan, along with Stanford University's LaDoris H. Cordell and Lawrence C. Marshall, led a community conversation on "Rethinking Legal Education" on March 11, 2008, at the Foundation.
Carnegie Community Event Examines Doctoral Education
Former Carnegie Foundation President Lee S. Shulman, along with Chris Golde and Laura Jones (former Carnegie senior scholars and coauthors of The Formation of Scholars), Andrew Szeri (dean of the Graduate Division, UC Berkeley), and Michael Beattie (professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, at the UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center [BASIC]) led a community conversation on "Time for Change: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century" on April 1, 2008, at the Foundation.
Carnegie Community Event Addresses Challenges of Literacy in K-12 and Community Colleges
Ann Lieberman, former Carnegie senior scholar, and Rose Asera, Carnegie senior scholar, along with Yvonne Divans Hutchinson, English department chair at King/Drew Magnet High School of Medicine and Science in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and Tom deWit, English instructor at Chabot College, led a community conversation on "Reading Between the Lines: Addressing the Challenges of Literacy in K-12 and Community Colleges" on May 13, 2008, at the Foundation.
Carnegie Community Event Examines Basic Skills Education at the Community College Level
Carnegie Senior Scholar Rose Asera, Frank Chong (president of Laney College), Myra Snell (professor of mathematics at Los Medanos College), and David Wolf (co-founder of and senior consultant with the Campaign for College Opportunity) led a community conversation on "Action Agendas for Basic Skills Education" on Dec. 11, 2008, at the Foundation.
