Teachers Create the Future of America
While we all agree that education is imperative to the future of our nation and necessary for the strength of our democracy, we often don’t mention the central role of teachers, writes Vartan Gregorian. They deserve both material and moral support as well as our respectVartan Gregorian, April 30, 2021
Editor’s Note:
Vartan Gregorian, the 12th president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, died unexpectedly on April 15, 2021, as this issue was on press. Gregorian founded the Carnegie Reporter magazine in 2000 and was deeply involved in the development of this issue dedicated to education and democracy. Among Gregorian’s many writings as an educator and a historian, this final essay focuses on subjects that he held dear teaching and learning. Learn more about his extraordinary life and legacy.
Shana Kushner Gadarian is associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School in Syracuse University, and with Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas Pepinsky, the author of
Pandemic Politics: How COVID-19 Revealed the Depths of American Polarization, which is under contract with Princeton University Press.
Jeanne-Marie Jackson is associate professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the author, with Princeton University Press, of The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing (2021).
Gillen D’Arcy Wood is professor of environmental humanities and English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he serves as associate director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment. He is the author of
Vartan Gregorian championed a strong HE system in Africa
29 April 2021
Vartan Gregorian, the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the former president of Brown University and the New York Public Library in the United States, illustrious scholar and steward of Andrew Carnegie’s legacy, died aged 87 on 15 April. Gregorian had been hospitalised for testing related to stomach pain.
Gregorian, a distinguished historian and humanities scholar, was the 12th president of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
During his tenure, from 1997 to the present, he championed the causes of education, immigration and international peace and security – key concerns of the foundation’s founder, Andrew Carnegie.
President Joe Biden has nominated UC Merced Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to be the new director of the Office of Science in the federal Department of Energy.
2021 Carnegie Fellow to Study Long-Term Consequences of Epidemics
Kevin Thomas, professor of African and African diaspora studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
AUSTIN, Texas Before COVID-19, Ebola ripped through West Africa, then touched down in the United States in 2014. Now, one newly named Carnegie fellow hopes his ongoing research on U.S. and West African survivors of the Ebola epidemic will offer both insight and warning into what a future after COVID-19 might hold.
Each year, the Carnegie Corporation of New York awards fellows $200,000 for scholarly research and writing aimed at addressing some of the world’s most urgent challenges to democracy and international order. Kevin Thomas, professor of African and African diaspora studies at The University of Texas at Austin, was awarded for his research proposal to investigate the longer-term consequences of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa.