About The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Primary Sponsor of the U.S. Professors of the Year Awards Program
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is working toward a more productive approach to educational research and development, joining researchers, practitioners and expert others on common goals to solve problems in networked communities. Today, our initiatives are focused on creating pathways for student success in community colleges and improving teaching practice. Carnegie’s newly developed research approach work relates to the idea of the scholarship of teaching and learning, introduced by the foundation in 1990, where faculty learn from each other, improve on what they find works, continuously create new knowledge, and take what is learned to make it usable by others. Our core belief is that much more can be accomplished together than even the best of us can accomplish alone.
Anthony S. Bryk, whose work has informed and inspired school reform efforts, took office as the ninth president of the foundation in September 2008.
Throughout this century, the Carnegie Foundation has contributed many influential achievements in education, including:
- Developed the nonprofit Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America (TIAA) which, together with College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF), is the largest pension system in the United States
- Published the Flexner Report on medical education, a seminal report that led to the establishment of standards of medical training in the United States
- Created the Carnegie unit, which standardized high school course credits for use in the college admissions process
- Founded the Educational Testing Service
- Established the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
- Developed the Graduate Record Exam
- Published more than 100 influential studies on higher education that led to dramatically increased federal support for higher education and federal financial aid to college students
For more information about the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, visit our website at www.carnegiefoundation.org.
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