Continuing Education for Congress: Building Trust and Expertise To Get Things Done
Capitol Hill lawmakers and their staffers wrestle with busy schedules that simultaneously call for general knowledge and specialized expertise. And that doesn’t even get to the lack of time and bandwidth. Enter philanthropy-supported congressional education programsMenachem Wecker, April 29, 2021
From the Spring 2021
Within months of becoming a Brookings fellow, Scott Anderson was fielding congressional staffers’ regular calls about his self-admittedly “eclectic” foreign relations and national security law articles. The questions spanned the map some basic, others highly technical, recalls the Lawfare blog senior editor.
Anderson knew Capitol Hill work can overload staffers, who lack bandwidth to develop deep expertise or whose prowess comes enmeshed in particular viewpoints. So he created the Congressional Study Group on Foreign Relations and National Security as a “bridging mechani
Narrowing Africa’s Digital Divide in Education
A Corporation-supported educational technology network has become a valued resource for higher education professionals in Africa during the COVID-19 crisis and beyondWachira Kigotho, April 29, 2021
From the Spring 2021
Words Matter This word cloud draws from the titles of all of e/merge Africa’s online professional development events in 2020. Credit: E/merge Africa
Nothing in the history of mankind has caused such widespread disruption in the global education sector as the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the closure of educational institutions at all levels and affected the learning progress of about 1.6 billion learners representing 94 percent of the world’s student population.
What can a hydroelectric dam teach us about inequality, injustice, poverty and the environment? Quite a lot, it turns out, when the dam in question it sits on the border between one of the smaller countries in South America, Paraguay, and the global giant that is Brazil.
$5.2 million in philanthropic support for significant scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities
04.28.2021
New York, NY, April 28, 2021 With the goal of applying scholarly perspectives to some of society’s most important issues, Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced the 2021 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. The philanthropic foundation will grant each fellow $200,000 to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting our society.
The Corporation launched the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program in 2015 as an initiative that was conceived by the late Vartan Gregorian, who served as president of the foundation from 1997 until his death on April 15, 2021. Gregorian, a former professor of history and past president of Brown University, aimed to advance and elevate the work of the fellows to reinforce the importance of the social sciences and humanities in academia and American
Economics Professor Léonce Ndikumana Named Andrew Carnegie Fellow Global expert on macroeconomics and development in African countries is first UMass Amherst faculty member to receive the recognition
April 28, 2021
Léonce Ndikumana
AMHERST, Mass. – Distinguished Professor of Economics Léonce Ndikumana, considered by many to be one of the best-known and most widely respected African macroeconomists of his generation, has been named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Ndikumana is the first University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty member to receive the honor.
Each year, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program recognizes a select group of scholars and writers who receive philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting society. The fellows’ projects focus on a broad range of complex political, economic, technolog