The Carnegie Teaching Academy
The Carnegie Teaching Academy is a $6 million, five-year effort to create a scholarship of teaching and learning that will improve the quality of student learning and raise the status of teaching. It is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
The first component of the Carnegie Teaching Academy is The Pew Scholars, a national fellowship program that brings together outstanding faculty committed to inventing and sharing new conceptual models for undertaking and documenting teaching as a form of scholarly work. Its purpose is to create a community of scholars whose work will advance the profession of teaching and deepen the learning of students.
The Carnegie Teaching Academy Campus Program, conducted by The American Association for Higher Education, is the project’s second component. The Campus Program is for institutions in all sectors that are prepared to make a public commitment to new models of teaching as scholarly work. Campuses will do this work in different ways, depending on prior progress and developments, but all are invited to begin by undertaking a process of stock-taking and planning designed to set significant work in motion. In subsequent years, there will be opportunities for cross-campus collaboration, training, competitive grants and affiliation with the national Carnegie Teaching Academy.
"The Carnegie Teaching Academy has two goals: first, we want to put forward new models of teaching that will foster deep and lasting understandings by students. Second, we want to raise the status of teaching by underlining its character as intellectual, scholarly work…"
Pat Hutchings, Carnegie Foundation senior scholar and project director
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