Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
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For the Woodrow Wilson Foundation American History Initiative
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Since 1945, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (WWNF) has identified and developed the most talented minds for the nation’s greatest challenges by offering fellowships to recruit, support, and prepare the next generation of leaders for important fields. In February 2019, the WWNF will launch the Woodrow Wilson American History Initiative (the Initiative) which seeks to reestablish the common bonds that all Americans share during this time of deep political, economic, and social divisions. With Corporation support, the Initiative will study and develop new ways in which American history can be taught and learned through pedagogic practices that will enliven, engage, promote curiosity, and make important the study of American history. The Initiative will create resource-rich website content for students and teachers, build a robust professional development program for educators; and use the Foundation’s Buckley History Lab for research and development, design and delivery of games that teach, and to develop an effective communications strategy.
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For support for completion of a book entitled "The Future of American Higher Education: Looking Backward, Looking Forward and Looking Sideways"
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
25 months
Description
Due to accelerating demographic, economic, and technological change in the United States, the higher education landscape has shifted dramatically. Long viewed as a path to professional and economic success, traditional, four-year, residential college programs are no longer meeting the needs of Americans. Industrial and analog jobs are disappearing due to automation and outsourcing. The new global, digital economy is powered by information and ideas. Postsecondary education is struggling to prepare recent high school graduates for non-linear and often unpredictable career paths and to retrain adults in declining industries to do new types of work. Arthur Levine, outgoing president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, will shed light on these issues in a book entitled, “The Future of American Higher Education: Looking Backward, Looking Forward and Looking Sideways.” Before his appointment at Woodrow Wilson, Levine was president of Teachers College at Columbia University and chairman of the higher education program at the Institute for Educational Management. His book aims to illuminate the challenges facing the field through a three-pronged framework: studying the past to see how higher education has responded to profound societal change historically; predicting how forces changing the United States today will affect the future of postsecondary education; and examining how other kinds of organizations, such as newspapers and television companies, have responded to globalization. With Corporation support, Levine will have the resources to conduct research and dedicate time to writing the remaining chapters of the book.
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For core support of the Woodrow Wilson Academy for Teaching and Learning
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
America’s schools of education are struggling to meet the current needs of the nation’s schools and children. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is reinventing the American school of education for the 21st century. The Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning established with Corporation and other philanthropic support in 2015 includes two components: a graduate school of education (the WW Academy Graduate School) and a research and development laboratory (the Buckley Teaching and Learning Lab). With a renewal grant from the Corporation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation will support the implementation of the WW Academy. The WW Academy is a transformative idea in the preparation of the nation’s teachers. The Academy will work with thought leaders and policy makers; making the new curriculum available to every education school in the country; carrying out and publishing research on what works; and securing maximum visibility for the WW Academy through the media.
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For the Woodrow Wilson Academy for Teaching and Learning
Date
Sep. 17, 2015
Duration
12 months
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As a one-time grant for the Woodrow Wilson New Jersey Teaching Fellowship
Date
Sep. 12, 2013
Duration
8 months
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Toward a fellowship program to attract outstanding students to the teaching profession
Date
Jun. 14, 2007
Duration
30 months