Grant to support pilot effort.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York Carnegie Corporation of New York, foundation established (1911) to administer Andrew Carnegie's remaining personal fortune for philanthropic purposes. Initially endowed with $125 million, the foundation received another $10 million from the residual estate. has awarded AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. AAC, especially MPEG-4 AAC, provides greater compression and better sound quality than MP3, which also came out of the MPEG standard. & U a grant to support the LEAP pilot effort underway in the state of Wisconsin. Through a partnership between AAC & U and the University of Wisconsin system The University of Wisconsin is the system of public universities in the state of Wisconsin. It is one of the largest public higher education systems in the country, enrolling more than 160,000 students each year and employing more than 32,000 faculty and staff statewide. , the LEAP campaign is coordinated with the Currency of the Liberal Arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. and Sciences: Rethinking Liberal Education in Wisconsin, an ongoing initiative of the Wisconsin system. Planned activities include a series of regional campus-community dialogues, focus groups with current college students and recent graduates, and the development of resources to help campuses communicate the value of liberal education and the importance of its key outcomes to current and incoming college students.
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