Monroe said that fundamental to the program's success are the twin ideas that students learn the most and learn to write best by engaging what most interests them, and that writing is most effectively conceived not as a mere tool or skill, but as a learning activity bound up with and inseparable from the specific contents, activities and habits of thought and inquiry particular to specific disciplines. In 1999, some 3,800 Cornell students enrolled in classes associated with the Knight Program. Initially intended as a one-time memorial grant, the foundation was so pleased with the success of the program that it made additional grants over the years and asked Cornell to develop a national program. Knight Program originally was created at Cornell in 1986 with a $5 million grant from the Knight Foundation in the memory of founder and Cornell alumnus John S. The remaining $2 million of the award will provide for continuation of the Summer Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, now in its fourth year two new three-year positions, one for a coordinator of sophomore seminars and one for a coordinator of electronic communication and assessment and two state-of-the-art Knight seminar rooms that will be part of new construction that is part of the living-learning initiative on West Campus, Monroe said.Ĭornell's $1 million in matching funds will ensure in perpetuity the sophomore seminar coordinator position and the two Knight seminar rooms, he added. "These 28 sophomore seminars will create a new tier of Knight Institute course offerings beyond the First-Year Writing Seminars and in addition to the 30 Writing Seminars in the Majors courses which Cornell is also committed to funding as part of the agreement on an annual basis," Monroe said.
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Cornell has agreed in return to full funding of an additional 15 seminars per year beginning in 2004-05, for a total of 28 sophomore seminars per year beginning in 2006. That will fund five seminars, each with a limit of 15 students, in 2001-02 10 seminars in 2002-03 and 13 seminars in 2003-04, with funding for 13 seminars per year in perpetuity thereafter.
Of the $5 million Knight award, $3 million will be used to endow a new Sophomore Writing Seminar Program. The grant will help fund sophomore writing seminars, residential writing mentors, technology enhancement and performance assessment, Rawlings said. "The Knight Writing Program has become a national model, and we are committed to preserving and enhancing its pre-eminence in the teaching of writing skills and in helping to replicate the program's successes at other institutions," he added.
"I am particularly pleased that this award is tied to Cornell's undergraduate living and learning initiative, which is aimed at bringing the unique resources of a research university to bear more directly on the lives of its students. "We deeply appreciate Knight Foundation's generosity," said Cornell President Hunter Rawlings. The award, made as the foundation begins observing its 50th anniversary, is the largest approved by the board in 1999. This new grant cements Cornell's reputation as the place to go for those who care about the teaching and learning of writing." "Jack Knight would have liked that, because clear writers and good thinkers are more likely to be good citizens. "Cornell has produced a generation of students and teachers capable of expressing themselves creatively through the written word, whether they wind up being engineers, doctors or lawyers," Hodding Carter III, the Knight Foundation's president and CEO, said today (March 1, 2000). Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, said Jonathan Monroe, director of the Knight Writing Program, professor of comparative literature and the George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Cornell.Ĭornell has committed an additional $1 million in matching funds to the institute, Monroe said.
The result of the grant will be to transform the program into the John S. Knight Foundation to strengthen, broaden and extend the outreach of the program. Knight Writing Program at Cornell University has been awarded a $5 million grant from the John S.
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