The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Graduate |
| Discipline(s): |
Engineering Education Research |
| Special Topic(s): |
Academic Careers and Issues |
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Community - Award/Recognition/Scholarship |
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Organization:The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |
| Description: | The Carnegie Foundation hosts research, provides resources and conferences, funding and awards. It also issues Change Magazine. "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 whose charge is "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education." Take a Tour The improvement of teaching and learning is central to all of the Foundation’s work. As we bring together researchers, teachers, policymakers and members of organizations with common interests in education, we work to invent new knowledge and to develop tools and ideas that allow us to foster positive change and enhanced learning in our nation’s colleges and schools. The Foundation seeks to be both an inspiration and catalyst as we work on issues of teaching and learning across regions, disciplines and levels of the education system. Carnegie is an institution whose thinking and actions are organized around teaching and those who teach, from preschool to graduate school. Drawing on its historical mission, Carnegie is dedicated to the dignity of the profession of teaching and the cause of higher education. Carnegie’s theory of change rests on our belief that educational leaders, in the classrooms, board rooms, and legislatures, would act far more intelligently and purposefully if they had: a better sense of what they were really doing; new ways of discerning how and what teachers and students were performing in their institutions; a richer understanding of what others were doing under similar as well as different circumstances; and thereby had access to better “visions of the possible†for the work they foster." |
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| Keywords: | Funding Sources for Engineering Education Research and Scholarship Teaching Awards |
| Has Components: |
Professors of the Year Award |
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Sponsors annual Professors of the Year Award. |
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Medium |
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Low |
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| Publication Date: | September 2008 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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