Columbia University
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For support of the China and the World Program
Date
Mar. 05, 2026
Duration
24 months
Description
China’s expanding role as a global great power has prompted increasing demands for expert, objective, and rigorous study of its foreign relations. Politically expedient decision-making without the benefit of such study will only serve to intensify heightened U.S.-China tensions.By supporting post-doctoral fellows with a focus on China’s international relations who have recently received their PhDs, Columbia University’s China and the World Program (C&WP)seeksto hone scholars’expertisein this area andassistthem inacquiringand keeping teaching positions in academic institutions. Through its Carnegie-supported fellowship and public events, C&WP will continue to play a vital role in meeting the high demand for scholarship and education for the next generation of students about the challenges and opportunities posed by China’s rise.
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For core support of the Institute for Global Politics
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
12 months
Description
The Institute of Global Politics (IGP), launched in October 2023, is situated within Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Its mission is to address global policy challenges by integrating academic expertise and real-world experience to foster informed, nonpartisan public discourse and policy innovation. Since its founding, with initial support from Carnegie Corporation, IGP has welcomed 30 Carnegie Distinguished Fellows to campus, including senior diplomats, journalists, economists, and other global policy leaders. A Corporation grant will allow IGP to continue its Fellowship Program, expand its infrastructure and staff, and ensure its continued growth and impact.
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For project support of the Freedom and Citizenship Program
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
15 months
Description
Columbia’s Freedom and Citizenship program is a year-long civic education and college access initiative for first-generation, low-income high school students in New York City. The program combines a three-week residential seminar in political philosophy with a nine-month civic leadership experience and individualized college advising. Students develop critical thinking skills, strengthen civic self-efficacy, and engage in civic leadership projects. Since its founding in 2009, the program has served 463 students and inspired a national Knowledge for Freedom network across 34 campuses. This grant will support a cohort of 45 students. Participants will complete academic portfolios, receive personalized mentorship, and be supported through each step of the college application process. Outcomes include increased college acceptance and enhanced civic agency. Students will also receive last-mile Carnegie Scholarship to help cover college expenses.
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For Columbia University's SIPA Institute of Global Politics, Carnegie Distinguished Fellows
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
The Institute of Global Politics (IGP), launched in October 2003,is the flagship initiative of Dean Karen Yarhi-Milo and SIPA’s primary impact platform. The Institutewill attempt to bridge the gap between academics and policy makers by convening leading scholars and practitioners to advance policy solutions to today’s pressing global challenges. To this end, the IGP hosts high levelpractitioner Fellows, which in 2023 were named the Inaugural Carnegie Distinguished Fellows. Theirengagement includes generating policy reports;participating in public events; policy roundtables and skills workshops;and working with Columbia students on op-eds and other research projects. With Corporation support, IGP will host, in its second year, a new cohort of fellows.
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For support of Carnegie Corporation of New York's archives of grantmaking materials and for responding to requests for information from Corporation staff and other researchers
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
12 months
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As a final grant for a project to the Center for Public Research and Leadership to finalize the Curriculum Implementation Change Framework resources and conduct a research study on student outcomes and implementation of the OpenSciEd middle school curricu
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
The Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University provides improvement-oriented research and project support to hundreds of public and nonprofit PK-12 organizations. For the past two years, CPRL has developed the Curriculum Implementation Change Framework and a suite of tools to support effective curriculum implementation using specific English language arts, mathematics and science curricula. Corporation support will allow CPRL to finish development and dissemination of these tools and meet the demand of school and district leaders who want to utilize them with teachers to inform curriculum implementation efforts. CPRL will also conduct a three-year research study investigating whether, how, and under what conditions the adoption and implementation of the OpenSciEd middle school curriculum improves teacher practice, student learning experiences, and outcomes for students.
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For a project to the Center for Public Research and Leadership to implement the Carnegie Future of School Institutes, in which students will build their deliberative democracy skills while designing solutions for public schooling
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
To fully engage in democracy, young people must develop the skillsand dispositions to work collaboratively. Since 2011, the Columbia Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) has been committed to revitalizing public education. As part of its mission to foster deliberative democracy skills among students, CPRL will engage students from diverse backgrounds through the Carnegie Future of School Institutes. The Carnegie Future of School Institutes will help students cultivate essential civic skills, including perspective-taking, effective communication across socio-demographic lines, evidence-based problem-solving, and cognitive flexibility. At least 200 students from public schools in New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin will participate, focusing on the future of public education within our democratic society. The results will be disseminated through toolkits and resources created with students, serving as a guide for others in the field.
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For support of the renewing democratic participation project of Columbia World Projects
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
0 months
Description
No successful democracy can thrive without a vibrant, legitimate, and effective party system. Successful political parties usually attract support from broad coalitions, which helps parties in office govern effectively by addressing both fundamental long-term challenges and more immediate issues voters view as urgent priorities. Increasingly, parties can be seen by the public to have fallen short, negatively impacting civic participation and civic culture. There is a critical need for interdisciplinary scholarship to examine particular features of the party system and to offer concrete ideas for overcoming this failure of contemporary politics. Founded in 2017, Columbia World Projects will convene an interdisciplinary network of political scientists, historians, legal scholars, political sociologists, and practitioners—both at Columbia University and from other leading universities in the United States—to examine particular features of the party system and other deficits of the U.S. electoral infrastructure, and to offer solutions.
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As a final grant for support of an oral history project on Carnegie Corporation of New York
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
Founded in 1948, Columbia University’s Center for Oral History Research is among the oldest oral history programs in the world. Its collections are the most cited oral history archive in the United States. Its Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) maintains unique expertise around the connection between public policy and historical memory, especially in relation to themes of democracy across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. With Corporation support, the center will conduct hundreds of interview sessions with Corporation staff and board members, as well as grantees, and investigate the Corporation’s archives, with the goal of analyzing its modern legacy and ongoing influence in national and global philanthropy.
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For support of the China and the World program
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
China’s expanding role as a global great power has prompted increasing demands for expert, objective, and rigorous study of its foreign relations. Politically expedient decision-making without the benefit of such study will only serve to intensify heightened U.S.-China tensions. By supporting post-doctoral fellows with a focus on China’s international relations who have recently received their PhDs, Columbia University’s China and the World Program (C&WP) seeks to hone scholars’ expertise in this area and assist them in acquiring and keeping teaching positions in academic institutions. Through its Corporation-supported fellowship and public events, C&WP will continue to play a vital role in meeting the high demand for scholarship and education for the next generation of students about the challenges and opportunities posed by China’s rise.
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For a project for the Center for Public Research and Leadership to advance curriculum-based professional learning at the local and field levels
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
6 months
Description
High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) and curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL) are powerful ways to deepen teachers’ knowledge of content and standards, drive school- and district-wide collaboration, and support delivery of rigorous, student-centered instruction. However, a recent RAND Corporation survey reveals that about half of teachers report receiving less than five hours of professional learning on how to implement their materials during the academic year. For HQIM and CBPL to take hold in the deep, widespread way that is essential for improving student outcomes, the field of CBPL must be developed with a pointed strategic plan to accelerate and fortify this work. At the local level, change leaders need insight into how teachers and other users of HQIM are experiencing implementation, what they are doing with the adopted materials, and what next steps are required to strengthen, deepen, and scale implementation. The Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University designed the new Curriculum Implementation Change Framework (CICF) to help change leaders with these problems. Through this grant, CPRL will pilot CICF and develop a roadmap for further developing the field of CBPL.
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For a project to the Center for Public Research and Leadership to develop a practitioner toolkit based on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model to support curriculum implementation efforts
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
9 months
Description
Districts and school systems across the country are turning to high-quality instructional materials to improve educational outcomes. However, teachers still need support in implementing these materials to improve student outcomes. The Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University conducts high-impact research and development projects with state agencies and school districts, while also developing resources to expand access to high-quality education for all students. Through this renewal grant, CPRL will field test and finalize the Curriculum Implementation Change Framework, a toolkit for practitioners to address change management during curriculum implementation. This will build the capacity of district and school leaders and inform professional learning interventions.
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For Columbia University's SIPA Institute of Global Politics, Inaugural Carnegie Distinguished Fellows
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
On October 3, 2023, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) will launch the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) which will feature a cohort of distinguished fellows.The Institutewill attempt to bridge the gap between academics and policy makers by convening leading scholars and practitioners to advance policy solutions to today’s pressing global challenges. IGPwill focus on five key areas of impact: geopolitical stability, democratic resilience, climate and sustainable development, inclusive prosperity and macroeconomic performance, and technology and innovation.With Carnegie Corporation support, in its inaugural year, each fellow will be named the Instituteof Global Politics, Inaugural Carnegie Distinguished Fellowsand will include experts from the public and private sectors, local and global, whose views range across the political spectrum. Theirengagement will include generating policy reports;participating in public events; hosting policy labs and skills-based workshops;and working with Columbia students on op-eds and other research projects.
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For project support of the Public Understanding Capacity Building Cohort of Family Advocacy
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
15 months
Description
The Corporation will partner with Columbia University’s Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) to support family engagement advocacy nonprofits in strengthening and reinforcing the home-to-school learning connection. This proposed work builds upon prior work funded by the Corporation, and CPRL now proposes to deepen and extend its work with a cohort of five advocacy organizations–diverse in geographic focus and particular activities yet united in a vision of making public education accessible, equitable, and enjoyable for low-income communities of color. This proposed grant will provide each organization with financial support and a range of individualized, structured, and targeted non-financial supports to help them achieve near- and long-term impact, while also affording CPRL the opportunity to measure, observe, support, and analyze its own and the members’ activities, inputs, and enabling conditions. The goal is to provide new and valuable insight into how effective advocacy organizations and their supporters act, thrive, and achieve impact.
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As a final grant to the Special Commission on Research Ethics in the Middle East and North Africa
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
38 months
Description
The practice of social science in the Middle East and North Africa faces complex challenges includingthe ethics of research design and conduct, career development and publishing issues, and very low funding at national levels.In 2020, with an overall aim to improve the quality of social science research on and in the Arab region, the Middle East Institute at Columbia University joined a collaborative effort among the Columbia Global Centers, the American University in Cairo, the Rabat Social Studies Institute, and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences based in Lebanon to establish a Special Commission on Social Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa.The Commission sustained consultations with over 60 experts from the Arab region and the United States and analyzed over 900 cases of funding support, producing a report on the economics of social science in the region. The next phase of support will enable the Commission to implement keyfindingsand develop guidelines to be proposed for adoption by universities and professional associations, donors, and publishers. The project will catalyze discussion of standards for ethical social science research relevant within and beyond the region.
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For project support for the Center for Public Research and Leadership's management of the national Family Engagement Call to Action and Community of Practice
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
8 months
Description
The family engagement fieldhas been developing in recent years, spurred further by the pandemic. New and growing family engagement organizations are ready for and seeking funding, as well as opportunities to build their capacity and improve their practice. Through this grant, Columbia University’s Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) will launch a community of practice for a cohort of family engagement grantees of Carnegie Corporation of New York that partner with schools and districts on strategies to promote family engagement in support of greater student learning. Specifically, CPRL will (a) strengthen family engagement strategies in support of greater student learning and achievement from early childhood through postsecondary learning and career opportunities (b) develop the capacity of stakeholdersto co-create equitable family engagement models linked to student learning(c) ultimately increase the use and effect of family engagement strategies, build capacity within the field, and spread knowledge and stories about effective practices and cross-sector learning.
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For project support to conduct a landscape analysis of national advocacy based family engagement organizations
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
9 months
Description
The Corporation will partner with Columbia University’s Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) to support family engagement advocacy and organizing grantees and other advocacy and organizing nonprofits in strengthening and reinforcing the home-to-school learning connection. This proposed work will generate learning about effective practices for funders and advocacy and family organizing nonprofits, with a particular focus on the organizations working directly with immigrant communities. In addition to partnering with nonprofits to strengthen and advance their work, this project will illuminate effective advocacy and organizing strategies, identifying the barriers that prevent equitable participation by families in their children’s education and ways to overcome them. It will also identify effective practices to be used by intermediary, philanthropic, and other support organizations that seek to bolster family engagement advocacy and organizing activities and further develop the family engagement field.
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For project support for the Center for Public Research and Leadership's management of the national Family Engagement Call to Action and Community of Practice
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
The Columbia University Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) will continue to work with Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Public Understanding Portfolio to support a cohort of grantees that partner with schools and school districts on strategies to promote family engagement to advance greater student learning and achievement. In Phase I of the project, which began in Fall 2021, CPRL supported the Public Understanding Portfolio in developing and implementing the cohort design, grantee outreach and selection process, and cohort initiation process, selecting 10 grantees out of over 300 that expressed interest. In Phase II of this partnership, CPRL turned to the capacity building goals of the initiative, both for the cohort of grantees and for the field. With this renewal grant culminating in Phase III of this partnership, CPRL will further act on the capacity building goals of the initiative, extending its supports to grantees and enacting and concluding its action research to identify, share, and spread individual and collective learning. Ultimately, this initiative aims to help districts realize the promise of family engagement as a means to improve student learning, helping school systems move beyond one-way communication to participatory family involvement built on relational trust.
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For a project for the Center for Public Research and Leadership at Columbia University to develop a landscape analysis report on curriculum-based professional learning in the K-12 education field
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
6 months
Description
High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) are a powerful tool for learning acceleration, and when implemented alongside effective curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL), it deepens teachers’ knowledge of content and standards, drives system-level collaboration, and supports teaching with rigorous, student-centered instructional approaches. Yet, implementation of HQIM and CBPL continues to be challenging for the K-12 education field. Proponents of this evidence-based effort need to understand the state of CBPL within the broader landscape of professional development to understand the extent to which the CBPL field is developing and why. This systematic understanding of the K-12 education field establishes a baseline for progress and generates information to help clarify the challenges and reveal the actions required for the CBPL field to mature. Through this discretionary grant, the Center for Public Research and Leadership at Columbia University will conduct a landscape analysis of CBPL to help actors across the K-12 education system understand and bridge the gap between the current and an improved state of professional learning for supporting successful curriculum implementation.
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For project support for the Center for Public Research and Leadership's management of the national Family Engagement Call to Action
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
7 months
Description
This moment is ripe for building the family engagement field and generating proof points for future success. The field itself has been developing in recent years, spurred further by the pandemic. New and growing family engagement organizations are ready for and seeking funding, as well as opportunities to build their capacity and improve their practice. Through this discretionary grant, Columbia University’s Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) will launch a cohort of family engagement grantees that partner with schools and districts on strategies to promote family engagement in support of greater student learning. Specifically, CPRL will (a) design a family engagement grantee cohort, (b) conduct outreach to family engagement organizations, and (c) launch the cohort initiation process. Ultimately, this project will strengthen the family engagement field by providing support to family engagement organizations and engage them in continuous learning opportunities to improve their work and their partnerships with schools and districts.
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For support of the China and the World program
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The U.S.-China relationship is likely to be the most critical in global politics for the foreseeable future. However, public opinion and politically expedient decision-making can lead to hardened perceptions and reactive policy positions that increase bilateral tensions. An informed and rigorous understanding of China is critical to assessing opportunities for cooperation and collaboration. With Corporation support, the China and the World Program (CWP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs will continue to provide mentorship, an alumni-support network, and ability to help researchers connect rigorous academic concepts with current events and policy decisions. The project also has a proven track helping alumni/ae secure tenure-track academic research and teaching positions.
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For the Center for Public Research and Leadership to study the role of high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
High-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning have supported students, families, teachers, schools, and school systems advance student learning through this unprecedented time. The Columbia University Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) will study the role that these materials and adult learnings have had in addressing COVID-induced learning loss and how to emerge from the pandemic with a more equitable education system. The report will recommend changes in policy and practice informed by the advantages of utilizing high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, and will include at least four illustrative case studies that make these recommendations clear and concrete for school systems around the country. The grantee will also engage with an external communications firm to develop and execute a dissemination plan and conduct a mainstream and social media campaign about the findings from the report.
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For a project for the Center for Public Research Leadership's to develop a practitioner toolkit based on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model to support curriculum implementation efforts
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
15 months
Description
The use of high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning are important components to accelerate learning in the classrooms. System leaders and educators must employ change management techniques to successfully integrate these strategies into their school system. The Concerns-Based Adoption Model, or CBAM, is a structured and proven approach to change management that provides tools and techniques to understand the change process at the individual level and inform professional learning interventions. The Columbia University Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) plans to collaborate with American Institutes for Research to develop and pilot a practitioner-facing CBAMtoolkit that supports systems and related providers of curriculum-based professional learning. Through this grant, CPRL will a) develop a practitioner toolkit based on CBAM focused on use of high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning and b) work with an advisory group to pilot and provide feedback on the practitioner toolkit.
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For Expanding and Enriching the study of Russia in the Social Sciences at Columbia University
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
48 months
Description
The state of Russia-related research and graduate training in the United States has seen a steady decline in federal funding and scholarly interest since the early 1990s, creating a shortage of rising experts with adequate training. The Harriman Institute at Columbia University is committed to promoting Russia-related training and research, as well as broadening interest in Russia among faculty and graduate students who might not otherwise pay attention to the country. Building on previous Corporation support, the Harriman Institute will engage in a set of activities, including training, research, policy-relevant conferences, public and media outreach, and exchanges with Russian institutions. The intent of these efforts is to deepen and expand the knowledge about Russia in the United States.
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Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Beginning in 2013 Columbia Global Reports (CGR) has been incubated by Columbia University and Columbia Journalism School as an independent press bringing analysis of underreported global issues to the public. CGR recently celebrated its fifth anniversary with more than 25 books published on topics ranging from politics to energy and health issues. Each book in the series is launched with events and podcast appearances. With Corporation support, CGR aims to increase its outreach and provide accessible coverage of current global trends.
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For support of an oral history project on Carnegie Corporation of New York
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1948, Columbia University’s Center for Oral History Research is among the oldest oral history programs in the world, and its collections are the most cited oral history archive in the United States. Its Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) maintains unique expertise around the connection between public policy and historical memory, especially in relation to themes of democracy across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. With Corporation support, the center will conduct hundreds of interview sessions with Corporation staff and board members, as well as grantees, and investigate the Corporation’s archives, with the goal of analyzing its modern legacy and ongoing influence in national and global philanthropy.
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As a final grant for core support of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The intensification of the Syrian crisis over the pasttenyears has haddevastating consequences for the Arab region. AsSyria became a focal point for competing geopolitical interests, parties to the conflict continueto commit human rights abuses andviolations of international law.The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia University is an academic center committed to to the study of human rights and the promotion of dialogue between scholars and practitioners throughlectures, conferences, and capacity building activities. With renewed Corporation support, this project will continue tomonitor conditions, raise awareness about human rights abuses, and recommend policy solutions to policy-makers in the United States, Europe, and elsewhereto enhance peace prospects in Syriathrough better informed and more effective mediation.
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For the Network for the Model International Mobility Convention
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
68 months
Description
There are an estimated 272 million international migrants—3.5 percentof the world’s population. While most people leave their home countries for work, millions have been driven away due to conflict, violence, and climate change. In 2017, more than thirty experts in demography, refugee law, migration law, sociology, economics, and political science drafted the Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC)reform. The MIMC was designed to fills gaps in international law and build on the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees through establishing a more regularized and orderly regime for the movement of people. Now that the MIMC has been drafted, launched at numerous events, and garnered the support of leading scholars and officials, the next step is to build a network that will carry forward the promotion and progressive development of the convention. Corporation funding will support planning and outreach workshops at the United Nations (UN)and overseas to advance this goal.
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For a special commission on social science research in the Middle East and North Africa
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
36 months
Description
The landscape for social science research in the Arab region today is complex and rapidly evolving. The structural context of research in the region is of critical concern as it shapes topics and methods, career opportunities, and prospects for dissemination and impact of outputs. With an overall aim to improve the quality of social science research on and in the Arab region, the Middle East Institute at Columbia University has joined a collaborative effort among the Columbia Global Centers, the American University in Cairo, the Rabat Social Studies Institute, and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences to establish a Special Commission on Social Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa. The purpose of the Commission is to assess the “big picture” factors that shape decisions about research, propose long-term strategies for addressing impediments, and recommend mechanisms for greater cooperation among social science communities within and beyond the region. Corporation funds will support the Commission’s work, includinga set of guidelines for ethical international research in the region, regional workshops,digital outputs, and publications.
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For continuing to digitize Carnegie Corporation of New York's historical records and making them accessible to the public via the Corporation's Digital Archive
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
38 months
Description
In 2015, the Corporation made a grant to Columbia University todigitize the historical records related to the inceptionand early years of Carnegie Corporation of New York, further develop tools and technology to receive and permanently preserve digital materials,and to make the materials accessible to the public via a newly createddigital archive. In 2020, we will continue with the next phase of the digitization project bydigitizingthe Corporation’s board-related materials, including sixty-threebound volumes of board meetingminutes, seventy-onebound volumes of agenda books, and 147 linear feet of related archival materials. These materials will also be added to the Corporation Corporationof New York’sDigital Archive and available to the public after an applicable embargo time.
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As a one-time only grant for research and policy development on international law and conflict in the Arab region
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
The intensification of the Syrian crisis over the pastnineyears has haddevastating consequences for the Arab region. AsSyria became a focal point for competing geopolitical interests, parties to the conflict continueto commit human rights abuses andviolations of international law.The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia University is an academic center committed to to the study of human rights and the promotion of dialogue between scholars and practitioners throughlectures, conferences, and capacity building activities. This project will monitor conditions, raise awareness about human rights abuses, and recommend policy solutions to policy-makers in the United States, Europe, and elsewhereto enhance peace prospects in Syriathrough better informed and more effective mediation. Corporation support will contribute to conferences, policy briefings,staff costs, and travel.
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For support of the China and the World program
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
There is a growing demand in universities, government, and the business sector for reliable analysis of China’s role in global and regional economic, social, and security affairs. The universities and their academic communities play an important role in advancing understanding about China and training the next generation of China specialists. The China and the World Program (CWP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs works at the intersection of policy-relevant research and training on China. Through research, fellowships, and study visits, and exchanges, the CWP produces analyses and mentors a rising generation of scholars who straddle the fields of international relations and China studies. The program’s goal is to ensure that these aspiring China-focused academics have the insights and tools to train succeeding generations through their research and teaching.
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For Center for Public Research Leadership's project to support education systems and organizations to improve professional learning of teachers linked to the use of high-quality instructional materials
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Effective implementation of college and career ready standards requires both high-quality instructional materials and aligned professional learning systems for teachers and school leaders. While multiple districts have begun adopting standards-aligned curriculum, most have not adequately planned for implementing aligned professional learning systems. This project of the Center for Research and Public Leadership (CPRL) is designed to bring its evolutionary learning methodology to districts and nonprofits. Through this proposed grant, CPRL will continue to meet increasing demand for its services by (a) continuing to strengthen systems’ and curriculum and professional learning organizations’ capacities to improve their professional learning initiatives, so that these are linked to standards-aligned curriculum through Evolutionary Learning Institutes and consulting services, and (b) creating openly available tools and resources to further the education field’s use of their Evolutionary Learning materials.
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For expanding and enriching the study of Russia in the United States
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The state of Russia-related research and graduate training in the United States has seen a steady decline in federal funding and scholarly interest since the early 1990s, creating a shortage of rising experts with adequate training. The Harriman Institute at Columbia University is committed to promoting Russia-related training and research, as well as broadening interest in Russia among faculty and graduate students who might not otherwise pay attention to the country. Building on previous Corporation support, the Harriman Institute will engage in a set of activities, including training, research, policy-relevant conferences, public and media outreach, and exchanges with Russian institutions. The intent of these efforts is to deepen and expand the knowledge about Russia in the United States.
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For core support of the Knight First Amendment Institute
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
News organizations have a long history of championing First Amendment rights, helping to shape and clarify laws on privacy, information access, libel, and press freedom. In the past decade, however, economic pressures on traditional news companies have put a strain on their capacity to fight for these rights. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia, established in 2015 by the Knight Foundation and Columbia University, aims to fill this critical void. The institute is dedicated to preserving and protecting First Amendment rights in the digital age and to championing freedoms of speech and the press through strategic litigation, research, and public education. The institute aims, among other things, to be an advocate for these fundamental freedoms in public discourse and an effective defender of these freedoms in the courts.
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For a final grant for the Teacher Project at the Columbia Journalism School
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Education news coverage often lacks the local capacity to cover stories in detail. In order to inform the public of the daily implications of policies on the lives of teachers and students, a more in depth kind of journalism is required. Housed within the Columbia Journalism School, the Teacher Project is an education journalism fellowship distinguished by its investigative coverage of equity and access as well as its emphasis on teacher and student voice through months of interviewing and reporting by talented education journalists. Stories by the Teacher Project reach 25 million readers through publication partnerships with Slate magazine, NPR and the Hechinger Report, as well as local media partners such as Chalkbeat-Detroit and Montana’s Last Best News. With the Corporation’s support, the Teacher Project will (1) employ recent graduates as reporting fellows to produce articles, radio features, podcasts, and infographics, while also (2) providing intense professional and editing support to the next generation of education journalists. With its comprehensive news coverage and evidence-based reports, the Teacher Project hopes to move public discourse forward on the American education system in a more nuanced way.
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For a Center for Public Research and Leadership project to use improvement methodology to increase the success of school systems and non-profits in designing and implementing high-quality instructional materials and professional learning systems to suppor
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Effective implementation of new and rigorous standards requires both high-quality instructional materials and effective professional learning systems and supports for teachers and school leaders. While many districts and nonprofits are implementing new instructional materials and associated professional learning, very few have adopted improvement methodology tools and practices into their work. This project of the Center for Research and Public Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University is designed to bring its improvement methodology to nonprofit organizations and school systems that are working to implement rigorous standards in new ways. The grant also will support follow-up Re-envisioning Professional Education (RPE) convenings to help better prepare graduates of university-based professional schools to solve public problems using improvement science methodology.
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For core support for Columbia Global Reports
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
In 2013, Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, asked Nicholas Lemann, former dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, to start a journalistic venture at Columbia. Lemann and Bollinger decided to create Columbia Global Reports (CGR), an independent press that addresses underreported global issues with a non-academic audience in mind. CGR publishes six novella-length books a year based on original reporting and research, in affordable paperback and e-book editions. CGR stands apart from other trade book and nonprofit publishers in the short time from assignment to publication, about twelve to eighteen months, and in its policy of paying for authors’ reporting expenses. While CGR sells books directly to the public, sales do not cover all costs. With Corporation support, CGR will push back against the growing flood of misinformation by providing accessible reportorial journalism.
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For the Teacher Project at the Columbia Journalism School
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
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Severe gaps in educational access and attainment correlated to economic and racial inequities persist from the earliest grades through college and graduate school for many Americans. Some of these gaps have structural roots, and informed and authentic reporting on the American education system—with an eye to giving voice to the voiceless—can help prod vital improvements and draw attention to these issues. The Teacher Project, an education journalism fellowship program at the Columbia Journalism School, contributes by reporting on American education with the goal of exposing inequity, telling the stories of under-covered issues about those who are most affected by education policies and change: teachers and families. The fellowship reporting is directed at both a general audience and education practitioners and policymakers, and the program has the additional goal of developing strong new young education journalists. This grant supports the 2017-18 cohort.
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As a final grant for bridging the gap between the academy and policy world through a global hub for research and consultation on cyber policy
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
27 months
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As a follow-on to a grant made under the Corporation’s “Rigor and Relevance” initiative aimed at the twenty-two U.S.-based members of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) seeks continued support for addressing the academic-policy gap in the critical areas of cyber security and global internet governance, as well as the impact of digital technologies on the global economy and public policy. Although global decision-makers are facing serious policy challenges in these emergent, interrelated areas, relevant scholarly knowledge is underdeveloped and scattered among diverse disciplines and institutions. Moreover, much of the relevant expertise resides not in traditional scholarly disciplines, but in experts based in government and the private sector. To adequately address these challenges, university-based researchers need substantive and longer-term interaction with governmental and corporate decision-makers and thought leaders.
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For support of the China and the World program
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
36 months
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There is growing demand in universities, government, and the business sector for reliable analysis of China’s role in global and regional economic, social, and security affairs. Without a sound understanding of China, it is impossible to adequately analyze the challenges a rising China presents or to assess what opportunities for cooperation and collaboration may be possible. How China manages its great transformation and grapples with international and domestic issues is of both scholarly and policy importance. The major goal of China and the World Program (CWP) at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is to train and mentor the upcoming generation of scholars who straddle the fields of international relations and China studies, and who will go on to teach the next generation of experts in the United States and other countries about China’s relations with the rest of the world—a need not being met by existing Ph.D. programs.
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For expanding and enriching the study of Russia in the social sciences at Columbia University
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
36 months
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To advance long-term relations between the United States and Russia and improve knowledge about Russian society in the United States, the Corporation launched an initiative to strengthen the study of Russia at U.S. universities. One of the projects recommended is this grant to the Harriman Institute at Columbia University (Harriman). Harriman proposes an intensive two-year program of seven activities and projects that will enrich and expand the study of Russia across the social sciences at Columbia and the greater New York academic community. The project will bring together graduate students from the New York area and Moscow’s Higher School of Economics to discuss their academic research in progress. This program will focus on research in progress and be open to graduate students at all stages in their careers, thereby accelerating their introduction to research.
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For the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative for Arts, Letters and Journalism
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For an innovative program to prepare graduate school students for leadership in the education sector
Date
Sep. 17, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For a project to provide online access to historical records related to the inception and early years of Carnegie Corporation of New York; and to further develop tools and technology to receive and permanently preserve digital materials in the future
Date
Sep. 17, 2015
Duration
57 months
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For the development of a report on the future of global migration
Date
Sep. 11, 2014
Duration
18 months
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For a joint project with the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College of New York on great power rivalry
Date
Sep. 11, 2014
Duration
35 months
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For bridging the gap between the academy and policy world through a global hub for research and consultation on cyber policy
Date
Sep. 11, 2014
Duration
24 months
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As a final grant for the Gulf 2000 Project
Date
Jun. 12, 2014
Duration
28 months
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As a one-time grant for scholar mobility fellowships to U.S. universities in support of social scientists from the Arab region
Date
Sep. 12, 2013
Duration
44 months
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For a report on intellectual property law reform
Date
Mar. 01, 2012
Duration
8 months
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For the Gulf 2000 project
Date
Sep. 13, 2012
Duration
26 months
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For an experts meeting on the evolution and current state of peacebuilding
Date
Mar. 10, 2011
Duration
8 months
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For developing graduate journalism curriculum standards
Date
Jun. 09, 2011
Duration
54 months
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For a report analyzing New York City's future infrastructure needs
Date
Mar. 10, 2011
Duration
28 months
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Toward the Gulf 2000 project
Date
Sep. 16, 2010
Duration
29 months
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For a program evaluation of a university program to advance civic leadership in New York City
Date
Jun. 03, 2010
Duration
12 months
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For a leadership role in curriculum enhancement and establishing graduate journalism standards
Date
Jun. 11, 2009
Duration
78 months
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Toward the 2008 African American policy and politics survey
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
12 months
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For the preservation and improved accessibility to the papers of David A. Hamburg
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
39 months
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Toward a project on the causes, effects and solutions to information overload
Date
Dec. 04, 2008
Duration
10 months
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Toward the Gulf 2000 project
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
24 months
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For a project on civil war initiation and termination in states at risk
Date
Dec. 04, 2008
Duration
72 months
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Toward curriculum enrichment
Date
Jun. 12, 2008
Duration
48 months
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Toward the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion
Date
Dec. 06, 2007
Duration
4 months
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Toward the Gulf 2000 project
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
23 months
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For research and writing on Russian foreign policy
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
12 months
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Toward the Gulf 2000 project
Date
Sep. 29, 2005
Duration
15 months
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For a reinvigoration of the journalism curriculum offering students a deep exploration of complex subjects like history, politics, classics and philosophy
Date
Sep. 29, 2005
Duration
24 months
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Toward the Gulf 2000 project
Date
Jun. 09, 2004
Duration
10 months