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Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) is a U.S.-based education policy and research center. It was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an act of the United States Congress. Among its most notable accomplishments are the development of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA), the Flexner Report on medical education, the Carnegie Unit, the Educational Testing Service, and the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

This article is about a United States organization for academic policy and research. For other uses, see Carnegie Foundation (disambiguation).

Founded

1905 (1905)

Andrew Carnegie

Education

Global

Donations, Grants, Reports

Andrew Carnegie, Henry Pritchett, Abraham Flexner, Clark Kerr, Ernest L. Boyer

$15,797,428[1]

$15,709,366[1]

www.carnegiefoundation.org

1906–1930

Henry Smith Pritchett

1930–1933

Henry Suzzallo

1933–1944

Walter A. Jessup

1945–1953

Oliver Carmichael

1955–1963

John W. Gardner

1965–1979

Alan Pifer

1979–1995

Ernest L. Boyer

1997–2008

Lee Shulman

2008–2021

Anthony Bryk

2021–present

Timothy Knowles

What are we trying to accomplish?

How will we know that a change is an improvement?

What change can we make that will result in improvement?

lead author of the Flexner Report (1910), a seminal study of medical education in the United States and Canada

Abraham Flexner

author of An American Dilemma (1944), a highly influential study of race relations in the United States

Gunnar Myrdal

(1923), a book by Upton Sinclair criticizing the dominance of plutocrats in American higher education

The Goose-Step

Carnegie Unit and Student Hour

CFAT archive at Columbia University

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Private power for the public good : a history of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. With a new foreword by Lee S. Shulman, New York : College Entrance Examination Board, 1999 (Originally published: 1st ed. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1983)

Official website