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	CCNY history
		Carnegie Corporation of New York, which was established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 "to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding," is one of the oldest, largest and most influential of American foundations.
		Carnegie earmarked a portion of the endowment to be used for philanthropic purposes in Canada and what were then the British Colonies.
		The Corporation moved away from higher education, placing priority on the education and healthy development of children and adolescents and the preparation of youth for a scientific and technological, knowledge-driven world.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/collections/carnegie/CCNYhistory.html (3387 words)

	Carnegie Corporation of New York - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Carnegie Corporation of New York, philanthropic foundation, founded in 1911 by American industrialist Andrew Carnegie to “promote the advancement...
		During his lifetime Carnegie gave more than $350 million to various educational, cultural, and peace institutions, many of which bear his name.
		Built in 1891 by U.S. industrialist Andrew Carnegie for the Oratorio Society, Carnegie Hall is neither exceptionally large nor architecturally...
	encarta.msn.com /Carnegie_Corporation_of_New_York.html (150 words)

	University Receives Academic Leadership Award from Carnegie Corporation
		The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced that Carnegie Mellon University and its president, Jared L. Cohon, are among the winners of the newly established Academic Leadership Award.
		Carnegie Mellon was honored for its commitment to interdisciplinary education and ability to integrate academic and co-curricular experiences.
		Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding." The corporation seeks to carry out Carnegie's vision of philanthropy, which he said should aim "to do real and permanent good in the world." For more on the award, visit http://www.carnegie.org/sub/news/leadership.html.
	www.cmu.edu /cmnews/extra/050304_carnegie.html (417 words)

	News at Bank Street : Bank Street College of Education To Participate In Carnegie Corporation of New York's Initiative, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		NEW YORK, Spring, 2002-Bank Street College of Education has been selected to submit a proposal to participate in a Carnegie Corporation of New York landmark initiative, Teachers for a New Era.
		In all, Carnegie Corporation has committed more than $30 million for the initiative at a total of six institutions; in addition to making two awards this year, in each of the next two years the Corporation will ask two additional universities to submit proposals.
		In addition to being recognized by the Carnegie Corporation, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) recently accredited Bank Street College of Education at the initial teacher preparation and the advanced education levels.
	www.bankstreet.edu /news/carnegieinitiative.html (827 words)

	Carnegie Libraries of California
		Carnegie libraries--public libraries built between 1886 and 1917 with funds provided either by Andrew Carnegie personally or by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (the foundation he established in 1911)--are among the most numerous public buildings in the United States.
		Efficiency was the operative word, both for Carnegie and for the professional librarians who advised him, and their goal was to allow a single librarian to supervise the entire library.
		Carnegie did allow for substantial basements, but these housed only subsidiary functions: a public meeting room, a staff room, toilets, and a furnace room.
	www.carnegie-libraries.org /styles.html (987 words)

	Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Research: University Archives: James Bertram Collection
		James Bertram (1872-1934) served as confidential secretary to Andrew Carnegie from 1897-1914 and as Secretary for the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1911-1934.
		The Carnegie Corporation of New York was incorporated in 1911 to "promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States and the British Dominions and Canada." Mr.
		Carnegie's confidential secretary and as Secretary for the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
	www.library.cmu.edu /Research/Archives/UnivArchives/BertramAid.html (2066 words)

	News & Events - The New School for Social Research
		Adolph Reed, Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, a division of New School University, is one of 11 leading researchers honored as this year's class of Carnegie Scholars.
		This third class of Carnegie Scholars will explore issues critical to civil society and terrorism, multicultural challenge in liberal democracies, ethnic conflict in Europe, race in American life, representative democracy, comparative development, constitutional configurations of the past, color-blind affirmative action, the sociology of military strategy and threat assessment, and the history of foreign aid.
		Working at the intersection of the new demography of labor and the emerging politics of race, he will examine the role of institutional relations in shaping pragmatic understandings of race and racial difference as they evolved in the United States over the 20th century.
	www.newschool.edu /GF/news/02-03/reedhonor.htm (366 words)

	Carnegie Corporation of New York
		Carnegie Corporation of New York, foundation established (1911) to administer Andrew Carnegie's remaining personal fortune for philanthropic purposes.
		Carnegie directed the foundation's activities until his death in 1919; in accordance with his early interests he gave grants to public libraries and church organs.
		Andrew Carnegie also established the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1910), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1905), and the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission (1904).
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/bus/A0810509.html (197 words)

	Carnegie Corporation Announces 2005 Carnegie Scholars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		New York, NY--Carnegie Corporation of New York has named Sohail Hashmi, Associate Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College, as one of sixteen Carnegie Scholars, all of whom will study themes focusing on Islam and the modern world.
		The goal of the Corporation's new emphasis on Islam is to encourage the development and expansion of the study of Islam within the United States and to stimulate research on which to help build a body of thoughtful and original scholarship.
		The Corporation is concentrating the Carnegie Scholars program on Islam over the next few years to make the field more central to American research and instruction, significantly expanding the breadth of knowledge necessary to build leadership and guide national and foreign policy.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/press/releases/hashmischolar.shtml (732 words)

	News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		May 26, 2004 -- Gustav Ranis, Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS), is among the 15 new Carnegie Scholars recently appointed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
		Carnegie Scholars each receive up to $100,000 for a period of up to two years to pursue research in the four areas of strategic importance to the Corporation: education, international development, strengthening U.S. democracy and international peace and security.
		The 15 new Scholars, selected from 144 nominees, join 52 others awarded fellowships since Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, inaugurated the program in 1999.
	www.yale.edu /ycias/news/carnegie.htm (390 words)

	UWLS News
		The Carnegie Corporation of New York announced today that UW School of Law Assistant Professor Clark Lombardi has been chosen as a 2006 Carnegie Scholar.
		Lombardi's Carnegie research, "Muslim Judges as a New Voice in Islamic Discourse," will examine the ways in which contemporary judges in the Muslim world have interpreted Islamic law and will explore the way in which their interpretation of Islamic legal texts is informed by civil, common or legal reasoning.
		The goal of the Carnegie Corporation's new emphasis on Islam research is to encourage the development and expansion of the study of Islam within the U.S. The 2006 class of Carnegie Scholars reflects a diversity of professional, ethnic and geographical backgrounds.
	www.law.washington.edu /News/Articles/2005Archive/LombardiCarnegieScholar06.html (572 words)

	Carnegie Corporation Funds New American Schools' Effort To Provide Systems & Tools For Measuring Student Performance ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As a result, news accounts of school rankings do not offer a complete picture of what is happening in classrooms and teachers cannot develop the individualized instruction needed for student improvement.
		To address this need, New American Schools will help establish information management and data warehousing systems to assist state agencies, school districts, and charter school authorizers collect, manage, and use their data effectively.
		The support of Carnegie Corporation will be vital to the development of this needed service.
	www.naschools.org /news/newsviewer.asp?highlightID=441&docID=71 (860 words)

	PND Newsmakers - Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
		Gregorian is the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grantmaking institution founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911.
		Philanthropy News Digest: Earlier this year, you wrote that the United States was facing a crucial era in its history, an era in which global challenges had become national ones and problems around the world have immediate impact on American daily life.
		Secondly, because September 11 was a unique event on an unprecedented scale, the New York philanthropic community was not adequately prepared to cope with it.
	foundationcenter.org /pnd/newsmakers/nwsmkr.jhtml?id=17000013 (4296 words)

	Carnegie Corp. Schools for a New Society Competition
		Beginning in the fall of 2001 when the second phase is launched, Carnegie Corporation anticipates committing $40 million over five years in direct grants, which will require a one-to-one match from public or private funds.
		The goal of Schools for a New Society is to effect sweeping, large-scale reform based on new ideas for secondary education and revised expectations of teachers, students, parents, administrators and curriculum.
		Phase two of the initiative, in which the Corporation expects to select five of the ten urban school-community partnerships for a long-term urban school reform process, is targeted for fall 2001.
	boston.k12.ma.us /textonly/bps/news/news_06_14_00.asp (1937 words)

	Teachers For A New Era
		New and convincing evidence that teaching is more important for schoolchildren than any other condition has been stunning in its clarity and exciting in its implications.
		Teachers for a New Era is explicitly focused on just one of these: the standard route by which students in higher education come to earn credentials enabling them to begin careers as teachers.
		Teachers for a New Era must be an officer within the office of the Chief Executive Officer or of the Chief Academic Officer of a college or university maintaining a program of teacher education.
	www.teachersforanewera.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=home.prospectus (7975 words)

	The American Experience \| Andrew Carnegie \| Philanthropy 101: The Carnegie Legacy
		Carnegie was often frustrated by criticism of his philanthropic efforts.
		Nothing Carnegie had done in business was as roundly criticized as the things he did "for the benefit of all mankind." Although his gifts pleased many, conservatives called him a socialist, and the general public frequently accused him of trying to use his millions to prostitute universities-even science itself.
		Founded in 1910 with $10 million from Carnegie, the Endowment is the oldest public policy institution in the United States concentrating on issues of war and peace.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/p_legacy.html (431 words)

	Carnegie Corporation of New York and CIRCLE release a report on civic education entitled "The Civic Mission of Schools" ...
		Carnegie Corporation of New York and CIRCLE release a report on civic education entitled "The Civic Mission of Schools" :: Campus Compact
		Carnegie Corporation of New York and CIRCLE release a report on civic education entitled "The Civic Mission of Schools"
		Carnegie Corporation of New York (http://www.carnegie.org) and CIRCLE (http://www.civicyouth.org) released a major new report on civic education entitled The Civic Mission of Schools.
	www.compact.org /news/news-detail.php?viewstory=3444 (250 words)

	Learning to Give - Carnegie Corporation of New York
		Carnegie (Margaret) did not approve of Andrew's growing relationship with Louise Whitfield, daughter of a prosperous Pittsburgh merchant.
		Andrew Carnegie elevated himself from the slums of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to mansions in the United States and a castle in Scotland.
		Carnegie lived by the third option in his "Gospel of Wealth" - he gave away over $350 million of his own personal wealth before his death in 1919.
	www.learningtogive.org /materials/foundations/carnegie.asp (934 words)

	Carnegie Hall New York City Center to form Partnership
		New York, New York; December 2, 2005—The Board of Directors of the Carnegie Hall Corporation and New York City Center today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on a partnership between the two organizations that will dramatically expand the scope and depth of their artistic and educational programs.
		Carnegie Hall and New York City Center will retain their own Boards of Trustees and separate 501(c)(3) status, and their endowments will continue to be used for the purposes originally designated.
		New York City Center has long been known and beloved by New York audiences not only as one of the city’s preeminent performing arts institutions but also as an accessible and welcoming venue for dance and theater.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/art_partnership.html (1289 words)

	Carnegie Corporation of New York
		Special: Volume 3, Number 4 of the Carnegie Reporter, the magazine of Carnegie Corporation of New York is now available.
		While current program directions have been designed to correspond with the Corporation's historic mission and legacy and to maintain the continuity of its work, they are also intended to serve as catalysts for change.
		In the 21st century, under Vartan Gregorian, Carnegie Corporation is facing the challenge of how to support the development of a global community in an age when both isolationism and nationalism seem to be fostering a fractured view of the world.
	www.carnegie.org (526 words)

	John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
		The goal of this curriculum enrichment is to encourage experimentation within the journalism school and to forge a greater integration with other departments in order to offer students the riches of the larger university community.
		The invitation to submit curriculum enrichment proposals likewise does not convey immediate membership in the third part of the Initiative: The Carnegie-Knight Task Force, which is focusing on research and creating a platform for educators to speak on policy and journalism education issues.
		The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is partnering with Carnegie Corporation of New York in supporting both News 21 and The Carnegie-Knight Task Force.
	www.knightfdn.org /default.asp?story=news_at_knight/releases/2005/2005_08_12_carnegie.html (513 words)

	2004-2005 News Releases
		The Carnegie Corporation of New York recently invited USM’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) to participate in The Teachers for a New Era Learning Network, a national networking program composed of representatives of 30 select institutions.
		The Carnegie Corporation of New York is working hard to elevate the bar on teacher education in the interest of quality pupil learning.
		The Teachers for New Era Learning Network is being undertaken jointly by The Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Annenberg Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation.
	www.usm.maine.edu /mcr/news/releases_0506/carnegie.htm (305 words)

	The Carnegie Corporation of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The last of Carnegie's great endowments, it is the only one of the various Carnegie agencies to be established as a grant-making foundation.
		For the first eight years of the Corporation's history, Carnegie himself was president of the board of trustees and personally directed the foundation.
		Under Carnegie's will, grants must benefit the people of the United States, although up to 7.4 percent of the funds may be used to benefit the people of some countries that are or have been members of the British overseas Commonwealth.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/George_Street_Journal/carnegie.html (573 words)

	News Releases
		"The Carnegie Corporation initiative recognizes the importance of integrating all the elements - from the arts and sciences to the fundamentals - that are critical to a solid education.
		Corporation officials said the four institutions asked to participate in "Teachers for a New Era" already have embraced these ideas as critical for what it takes to produce excellent teachers for tomorrow's children.
		Carnegie Corporation will grant each institution up to $5 million that will be matched over a five-year period.
	www.csun.edu /~hfoao102/press_releases/spring02/carnegie.html (766 words)

	Carnegie Renews DACS Support - MIT News Office
		The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded a $1.2-million, three-year grant in renewing its support for the MIT Defense and Arms Control Studies (DACS) Program.
		The Carnegie Corporation also announced a separate grant of $150,000 to support a study of nuclear arms control in the Middle East.
		Professor Weiner said the Carnegie Corporation support will enable the DACS Program to continue to develop its "high level of competence in security studies that we believe is vital to maintain at this time of dramatic changes in the world.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1992/carnegie-0408.html (520 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Carnegie Corporation of New York and the..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Hodding Carter III, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, today each announced grants of $1 million to support the newly-launched Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools.
		The Civic Mission of Schools report, issued in February 2003 by Carnegie and CIRCLE (Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at the University of Maryland), reflects a broad consensus among scholars and practitioners in the civic education field about the key elements for effective civic education in our schools.
		The Campaign is part of a larger effort Carnegie Corporation of New York has undertaken to focus national attention to providing K-12 students with a more comprehensive approach to civic education.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=29914 (942 words)

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