Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University
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For scholar support
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
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0 months
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Arizona State University will create an opportunity for a Russian journalist who previously served at the Voice of America to join the school’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism as the university’s documentarian in residence. With experience coveringU.S.-Russia relations and technology policy in both Russia and the United States, the journalist will develop projects focused on how Americaengages globally through sports, how societies imagine their futures, and how communities can improve their wellness. In addition, she will collaborate with the university’s Center for Science and the Imagination to create a series of short documentaries and video journalism projects.
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As a one-time grant in support of the Freedom for Political Prisoners Initiative
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
24 months
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The McCain Institute at Arizona State Universityis a nonpartisan organization inspired by Senator John McCain and his family’s dedication to public service. Their programs are intended to defend democracy, advance human rights, and empower character-driven leaders. Their ability to convene leaders across the global political spectrum enables them to make a real impact on the world’s most pressing challenges. This past February, the McCain Institute launched The John McCain Freedom for Political Prisoners Initiative (FPPI),inspired by Senator McCain’s experience as a prisoner of war and lifelong advocacy for those who are wrongly held. Carnegie Corporation’s support will enable the FPPI to secure key resources, engage policymakers, and boost vital interventions advocating for the release of four groups of political prisoners and hostages.
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As a final grant for core support of the Center for Reinventing Public Education
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
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0 months
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Founded in 1997, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), currently housed at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University (ASU), has served as a thought leader, researcher, and convener at the forefront of school system redesign informing district strategy across the country for decades. In the wake of the pandemic, CRPE played a critical leadership role by serving as a trusted source of information for education leaders, policymakers, and funders. In 2024, CRPE’s dissemination efforts across various national and local platforms resulted in 162 media mentions, eleven briefs, and an estimate of over 53 million media impressions; the CRPE website alone reached 168,000 views. Previous support from the Corporation enabled CRPE to conduct and disseminate timely action research, provide technical support to school agencies, and seed the Canopy Project along with the Overdeck Family and Barr Foundations. Final Corporation support will enable CRPE to continue building, documenting, and disseminating findings on student learning, consider the implications of AI, and produce usable data and guidance through the Canopy Project for school leaders, educators, and policymakers.
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As a final grant for the McCain Institute's fellowship program for emerging African peacebuilding leaders
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The Corporation has supported versions of the McCain Institute’s Global Leaders (MGL) program at Arizona State University (ASU) since 2018. The program aims to offer a world-class training experience to mid-career professionals and to empower the program participants to become effective changemakers in their respective countries. While the MGL program supports leaders from around the world, Corporation funding has focused specifically on the training and mentoring of the next generation of leaders from Africa dedicated to peacebuilding on the continent. The MGL is structured as a ten-month non-residential fellowship (with one month of in-person programming). Fellows participate in three in-person study tours, an online skills training and peer mentorship curriculum, and are introduced to relevant professional networks.
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As a final core support grant for University Innovation Alliance
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Growing gaps in degree attainment in higher education betweenlow-income students and more affluent peers mirror the distressing outcome disparities in K-12 education. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) is a leading national coalition of public research universities committed to increasing the number and diversity of college graduates in the United States. Over a decade, and with Corporation support, UIA has designed and scaled seven initiatives: predictive analytics, proactive advising, completion grants, college to career redesign, AI chatbots, Doctoral Research Fellows, and the Black Student Success Initiative. Ten years of growth have yielded a 29% increase in the number of annual graduates, 89% growth building in annual underrepresented graduates of color, and 41% growth in annual low-income graduates, representing over 143,201 degrees conferred. Renewal would support the refinement and launch of UIA’s next chapter, leveraging its history of data-driven work to amplify its impact.
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For core support of the Center for Whole-Child Education
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
A central element of transforming the student experience is to integrate social and emotional development into academic learning. However, few education schools prepare educators to facilitate high quality socio-emotional learning (SEL) and teachers rarely receive the professional development they need to address the challenges their students face. Turnaround for Children (Turnaround) was established in the wake of 9/11 to address the impact of adversity on learning by empowering educators with the knowledge, tools, and resources needed to support students’ social, emotional, and academic development. Turnaround has worked with more than 3,000 schools and systems over its twenty-year history, directly supporting 50,000 educators and leaders, and established itself as an authoritative voice on the relationship between SEL and academic success. Effective July 2023 – in order to maximize impact as it enters its third decade – Turnaround has joined the Mary Lou Fulton Teacher’s College at Arizona State University as the Center for Whole-Child Education. Core support will enable the launch and development of the center, which will conduct action-focused research, promote practice change in schools, drive innovation in educator preparation, and catalyze change in educational measurement and policy.
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For core support of University Innovation Alliance
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The growing gaps in degree attainment in higher education between white students and students of color, and between low-income students and their more affluent peers, mirrors the distressing outcome disparities in K-12 education. Launched in 2014, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) is a leading national coalition of public research universities committed to increasing the number and diversity of college graduates in the United States. Over the past eight years, and recently with Corporation support, UIA has designed and scaledseven initiatives: predictive analytics, proactive advising, completion grants, college to career redesign, AI chatbots, Doctoral Research Fellows, and the Black Student Success Initiative. This grant willbolster UIA’s work by expanding their membership base, convening their network, launching collaborative initiatives, and diffusing learnings with the field.
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Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
36 months
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The pandemic inspired unprecedented innovation in public education, spurring shifts that have the potential to produce lasting change. Realizing this potential will require us to overcome the inertia inherent in our system and the myriad policy, financial, and leadership challenges facing would-be innovators. The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University (ASU) is uniquely positioned to address this challenge. For three decades, CRPE has served as thought leader, researcher, and convener at the forefront of school system redesign. The effectiveness of this approach is evidenced by CRPE’s leadership role throughout the pandemic, during which the organization has served as a trusted source of information, aggregator of innovations, and leading convener. This renewal grant will support CRPE to act on an ambitious research agenda that is designed to provide transformative evidence and ideas to inform recovery and renewal as American schools emerge from the pandemic.
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For partnering with Inside HigherEd to serve as the broadcast partner for University Innovation Alliance web diffusion shows
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
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For higher education to improve and continue to innovate approaches to serving vulnerable students, thereby increasing completion rates, the sector needs faster diffusion of ideas, insights, and wisdom. This project aims to significantly expand dissemination of University of Innovation Alliance’s (UIA)work through enabling a partnership with Inside Higher Ed to serve as the broadcast partner for UIA web diffusion shows.UIA’s high value content and spotlight on the best ideas and innovators will reach millions of readers.As a result, the narrative in higher education will be elevated to shift the values of the sector to collaboration, service, and completion for all students.This project will also expand UIA’s overall impact on the higher education sector, serving to raise the organization’s profile, widely promote its work, and help to deepen its engagement with additional like-minded institutions.
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For core support of the University Innovation Alliance
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The growing gaps in degree attainment in higher education between white students and students of color, and between low-income students and their more affluent peers, mirrors the distressing outcome disparities in K-12 education. Launched in 2014, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) is a leading national coalition of public research universities committed to increasing the number and diversity of college graduates in the United States. In 2014, the eleven member institutions set a public goal to collectively award an additional 68,000 undergraduate degrees above baseline over ten years, with half of these awarded to students from underrepresented backgrounds. Today, the UIA has already granted 53,200 additional degrees in only six years and is on-track to exceed its original ten-year goal by 90 percent. This grant is for core support.
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For the McCain Institute's Next Generation Leaders from Africa focused on peacebuilding
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
42 months
Description
Since its launch in 2012, the University of Arizona’s McCain Institute for International Leadership’s (the Institute’s) flagship “Next Generation Leaders” (NGL) program has identified, trained, networked, and empowered a diverse group of emerging leaders from around the world. The program offers emerging global leaders a targeted professional and personal development experience focused on value-based and ethics-driven leadership. It links successive classes of leaders together, creating a global network of advocates for the common core values of security, economic opportunity, freedom, and human dignity. Through this approach, the program offers a unique blend of professional development, exposure to top-level policymakers and nongovernmental leaders, and formal training in leadership. Recognizing the complex political, economic, and humanitarian dimensions of peacebuilding in Africa, Corporation support will be focused specifically on the training and mentoring of NGLs from the continent who are addressing critical challenges in this broad field.
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For the McCain Institute's Next Generation Leaders program to support African fellows focused on peacebuilding
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
The University of Arizona’s McCain Institute for International Leadership’s (the Institute) flagship “Next Generation Leaders” (NGL) program is designed to identify, train, network, and empower a diverse group of emerging leaders from around the world. Since its launch in 2012, the NGL program has offered emerging leaders professional development experience, with exposure to top-level policymakers and formal training in leadership, values and ethics. By linking successive classes of leaders, the Institute has built a global network of advocates for common core values of security, economic opportunity, freedom, and human dignity. Recognizing the complex dimensions of peacebuilding in Africa, Corporation support is focused specifically on the training and mentoring of NGLs from the continent to address key challenges in this field.
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For core support of the University Innovation Alliance
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
30 months
Description
The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) is a member network of eleven public research institutions, launched in 2014, that aims to develop large-scale interventions to improve college completion and success rates, with a particular focus on first-generation, low-income, and underserved minority students, and to speed the diffusion of student success innovations across institutions. Since launch, the UIA campuses have together increased low-income degrees awarded annually by 29 percent. The network has also galvanized a national conversation about student success and collaboration in higher education, and has garnered substantial interest from media, policymakers, federal lawmakers, and other consortia and institutions of higher education. This grant is for core support.
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Academic Leadership Award in recognition of Arizona State University President Michael M. Crow's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
Date
Dec. 05, 2013
Duration
36 months
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For a symposium on the social, educational, and economic impact of Arizona's immigration laws
Date
Sep. 22, 2011
Duration
18 months
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Toward a student outcomes-based indicator system for determining the success of higher education institutions
Date
Jun. 11, 2009
Duration
40 months
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For a meeting on journalism education attended by deans participating in the Carnegie-Knight Initiative
Date
Mar. 05, 2009
Duration
3 months
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Toward curriculum enrichment
Date
Jun. 12, 2008
Duration
48 months