X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching


Carnegie Foundation

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a policy and research center in the United States

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Gunnar Myrdal, author of An American Dilemma (1944), a highly influential study of race relations in the United States

Henry Suzzallo

After his dismissal from the University of Washington, Suzzallo became associated with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which he became president of in 1930.

He later served as director of the National Advisory Committee on Education and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

History of Ohio State University

Presently, the university has reached the ranking of becoming a Public Ivy, as well as very receiving high rankings and awards from many institutions, including U.S. News, Academic Ranking of World Universities, The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and The Public Accounting Report.


An American Dilemma

An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish Nobel-laureate economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

TIAA–CREF

In 1918, Andrew Carnegie and his Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, under the leadership of Henry S. Pritchett, created the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), a fully funded system of pensions for professors.


see also