Printer-friendly versionThe Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching elected Robert Reich and Elaine Tuttle Hansen to its Board of Trustees for four-year terms at its annual Board meeting in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16.
Robert Reich is courtesy professor in the School of Education and an assistant professor of political science and ethics in society at Stanford University. He has served on editorial or review boards for the Journal of Philosophy of Education, Educational Theory and Learning for Democracy and is a former Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values.
Elaine Tuttle Hansen is the president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She previously served as provost at Haverford College, in Haverford, Pa., and taught at the Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. Prior to that, Tuttle Hansen was the associate editor of the Middle English Dictionary at the University of Michigan. She is a past president, and current member, of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and a recipient of the Lindbach Teaching Prize.
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Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an act of Congress, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission “to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher.” The improvement of teaching and learning is central to all of the work of the Foundation. The Foundation is located in Stanford, Calif.
The Carnegie Foundation is governed by an independent, national Board of Trustees and uses income from its endowment to support its research and publication activities. The Foundation makes no grants.
