Swarthmore College
Our programs include outward-facing projects as well as inward-facing initiatives designed to help us learn about liberal arts.
In all of our programs, we seek to ensure that we are either creating, collecting, and sharing or analyzing and interpreting evidence of liberal arts practices. And in all of our programs, we hope to ask and answer concretely the question of what liberal arts education really is.
Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts
Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts

We are investigating and assembling work on underrepresented histories of how Black people, institutions, and ideas have existed outside of, pushed against, or reshaped from within the ideas and institutions of the liberal arts.

Race, Racism, and the Liberal Arts
Podalot – The Aydelotte Podcast
Podalot – The Aydelotte Podcast

Podalot is the podcast of the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College, an interdisciplinary research center that supports the creation and dissemination of knowledge about liberal arts education as it exists across the broadest possible range of contexts and institutions.

Podalot – The Aydelotte Podcast
Scholarly Promotion
Scholarly Promotion

The Aydelotte Foundation and Swarthmore College Libraries can help you plan a launch event for the Swarthmore community, your extended disciplinary interlocutors, and/or the wider public. 

Scholarly Promotion
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Development Grant
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Development Grant

This grant program offers funding for interdisciplinary programs and departments to research, develop, and strengthen interdisciplinary curricula within their unit and/or across the College.

Interdisciplinary Initiatives Development Grant
Courses
Courses

Courses and the curriculum as a whole are at the heart of the Aydelotte Foundation’s mission.

Courses
Curricular Grants
Curricular Grants

Curricular Grants support Swarthmore faculty developing assignments, projects, or entire courses that include research, writing, discussion, and reflection on topics related to the history, present, and future of liberal arts and/or higher education.

Curricular Grants
Public Writing
Public Writing

The Aydelotte Foundation was charged at its creation with encouraging faculty and administrators to enter more vigorously and creatively into public conversations about liberal arts education and its future.

Public Writing
Aydelotte Consultancy
Aydelotte Consultancy

We are exploring the creation of a consultancy practice that will draw upon the institutional knowledge and insight of experienced faculty across academia.

Aydelotte Consultancy
Higher Ed Reading Group
Higher Ed Reading Group

The Aydelotte Foundation’s Higher Ed Reading Group assembles faculty, staff, and students to read and discuss topics relevant to the liberal arts and higher education.

Higher Ed Reading Group
AF Tuesday Cafe
AF Tuesday Cafe

All faculty and staff are invited to come together for a light lunch and some learning. Talks are aimed at a general audience and include plenty of time for Q&A.

AF Tuesday Cafe
Cross-Institutional Teaching Collaborations
Cross-Institutional Teaching Collaborations

The Aydelotte Foundation seeks examples of Swarthmore faculty teaching courses that cross institutional boundaries. Our primary interest is in discovering what students and faculty learn from courses of this kind; we also hope to hear what you’ve found valuable about teaching across institutions, and what resources you need to continue to do it.

Cross-Institutional Teaching Collaborations
 Active Research Projects
Active Research Projects

Read updates on our research interests, including open questions and difficult problems that we are grappling with.

Active Research Projects
AF Faculty & Staff Dinner Discussions
AF Faculty & Staff Dinner Discussions

At these dinners, a small group of faculty gather to discuss a short piece of published work by a colleague. This is a dinner party, Swarthmore-style.

AF Faculty & Staff Dinner Discussions
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