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Journalism's Crisis of Confidence: A Challenge for the Next Generation
The Corporation brought together some of the nation’s most influential news industry leaders and top journalism educators to engage in a discussion of how to prepare “the best and the brightest” to become tomorrow’s journalists and how to reinvent and …
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Higher Education Investment Act: An Open Letter to President-Elect Obama and His Administration
In an open letter to President-Elect Obama, Vartan Gregorian and other university presidents past and present write: “At this critical juncture in our history, America’s public research universities, state colleges, and community colleges stand ready to partner with the federal …
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Carnegie Corporation of New York 2010 Annual Report
This annual report covers the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010 and includes a listing of approved grants accompanied by brief abstracts as well as reports on finances, investments and administration. The reports also provide a list of current trustees …
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Carnegie Corporation of New York Annual Report 2013
This annual report covers the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013 and includes a listing of approved grants accompanied by brief abstracts as well as reports on finances, investments and administration. The reports also provides a list of current trustees …
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Science, Technology, and Government for a Changing World
Science is not a separate entity, remote from the lives of people. Science provides the basis for most of the requirements of modern living: the world has been transformed by science and technology in this century and this transformation is …
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Turkey's Kurdish Question
The Kurds, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, are reasserting their identity politically and through violence. Divided mainly among Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, the Kurds have posed increasingly sharp challenges to all of these states …
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Policing the New World Disorder: Peace Operations and Public Security
This book provides comparative analyses of operations involving international assistance to public security institutions. Chapters contributed by the Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Australian and Austrian experts take a broad view of the subject. A final chapter offers some specific recommendations for …
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A Century of Philanthropy
A timeline providing highlights from nearly 100 years of grantmaking at Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Revitalizing African Libraries
Few might consider books and their availability to be a top agenda item for Africa when the continent faces the enormous pressures of poverty, war, famine and AIDS. But in a global economy that is increasingly centered on access to …
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The Enduring Challenge: Self Determination and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
The paper focuses on issues of self-determination and ethnic conflict as one of the most challenging problems facing international leaders. It provides insight and understanding on how practitioners can make more informed policy decisions in nation building.
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The Urban High School's Challenge: Ensuring Literacy for Every Child
Substantial evidence suggests that the leap between learning and reading is not taking place for many young people in our nation's schools and that we as a nation are not meeting this most vital of challenges: teaching our children to …
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The Weaponization of Space: Divided Viewpoints, Uncertain Directions
This Challenge paper explores the many different viewpoints about the usefulness of putting weapons in space, and a divide between the use of legal measures such as treaties to regulate behavior and the development of deterrent capabilities.
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Carnegie Reporter Vol. 2/No. 3
In this issue: Islam and Feminism: Are the Barriers Coming Down? Civic Education in Schools: The Right Time is Now. The Digital Library: Its Future Has Arrived. Career Ambassador: Thomas R. Pickering. Foundation Roundup.
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Carnegie Reporter Vol. 2/No. 4
In this issue: The History of South Africa: A Twice-Told Tale. Alternative Pathways to College. Centers of Education in Russia: The Case for CASEs. An Interview with Marta Tienda. Foundation Roundup.
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Carnegie Reporter Vol. 3/No. 4
In this issue: Eurasia: A New World Order? Commentary on Russia and Eurasia by Vartan Gregorian. Judicial Elections: Still Fair and Balanced? Judicial Selection Fact Sheet. Organizations Supporting Judicial Reform. A Developing Identity: Hispanics in the United States Latino or …
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From Large to Small: Reinventing the Urban High School
Strategies for personalizing large urban high schools: help them become small learning communities where students and teachers are both engaged in meaningful, challenging work.
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After 20 Years of Educational Reform, Progress, but Plenty of Unfinished Business
This issue of Results examines the state of education reform 20 years after the release in 1983 of A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. How, for example, has the country responded to the 1983 report's urgent recommendations …
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Towards Nuclear Nonproliferation: An Evolving Strategy
This issue of the Carnegie Results explores how, over more than two decades, the foundation has honed and refocused its grantmaking in nuclear nonproliferation while retaining a consistent focus on applying its resources to the reduction of grave threats to …
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Why Preschool Pays Off: A Breakthrough Study Links Early Education to Better Life Choices
Carnegie Results revisits grantee the Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP), which existed from 1973 to 1981 and was the nation's first health and developmental program sponsored by a public school and open to children from birth to three years in …
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Strengthening the Work of the United Nations: A Sustained Strategy for Peace
Beginning with an examination of Andrew Carnegie's early investments in the Peace Palace at The Hague and his support of the League of Nations, this issue of Carnegie Results traces the close relationship between Carnegie Corporation of New York and …
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The Collegiate Learning Assessment: A Tool for Measuring the Value Added of a Liberal Arts Education
While America's colleges and universities have been the envy of the world, there is a growing understanding that other nations are not only catching up with the United States but also competing effectively in offering higher education oriented toward producing …
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Boston Review: A Small Political and Literary Magazine Dramatically Increases Its Visibility and Impact
Celebrating more than three decades of publication, Boston Review continues to fine-tune itself as a nexus for people seeking cutting-edge ideas in a forum that encourages dialog about politics and culture. Recently, the magazine has found ways to boost its …
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Research, Scholarship and Collaboration: Legacies of Carnegie Corporation of New York's Higher Education in the Former Soviet Union (HEFSU) Initiative, 1998-2008
The Corporation-sponsored major international programs focused on improving U.S.-Soviet relations and promoting cooperation in areas such as arms control and nuclear non-proliferation. Building on these earlier efforts, the Corporation then began, in the late 1990s, to add an ambitious new …
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A Digital Promise Becomes a Reality
In the late 1990s, as the digital age began to dramatically change the landscape of our lives, Carnegie Corporation recognized the need to ensure public access to this new technology and its unprecedented impact on the dissemination of knowledge.
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The Education Trust. Changing The Education Conversation In America
The Education Trust is a nonprofit organization that promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levelsâ€”pre-kindergarten through college. Its goal is to close the gaps in opportunity and achievement that consign far too many young peopleâ€”especially those from …

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