We’re All Poets: Carnegie Foundation December Newsletter
This is just a preview of what’s included in our December newsletter, featuring an opening letter from our president, Timothy Knowles. Click below to explore all the updates!
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Every year, I read poetry in December. It started as a way to briefly untether from the tsunami of non-fiction and prose that rules the day. Over time, it became a habit.
In the first stanza of one of Emily Dickinson’s 1,800 untitled poems, she describes the difference between poetry and prose this way…
December 18, 2024
This fall, members of the Carnegie Postsecondary Commission convened in Baltimore, Maryland to discuss post-high school educational pathways and the upcoming innovations to the Carnegie Classifications.
January 10, 2025
“Learning is least useful when it is private and hidden; it is most powerful when it becomes public and communal. Learning flourishes when we take what we think we know and offer it as community property among fellow learners so that it can be tested, examined, challenged, and improved before…