Career
Trillin's interest in curriculum development led her to consult for WNET television station and help it design new approaches to educational programming. She formed a company "Learning Designs" to produce educational television series, such as Behind the Scenes, starring the illusionist duo Penn & Teller, aiming to teach pre-teens about the creative process in the visual and performing arts. The series won several awards including the Japan Prize (Best of Festival) in the largest international children's film festival.
Trillin was also a major part of Open admissions and basic writing at City College, New York. Prior to teaching at City College, she taught at Hofstra where, in 1964, she met the recently hired Mina P. Shaughnessy. The two were instant friends. While at Hofstra, Trillin received the Samuel Rubin Foundation to set up "Project NOAH", a project designed to assist and tutor minority students.
In November 1966, Herbert Kohl’s published an article titled "Teaching the 'Unteachable,' The Story of an Experiment in Creative Writing", which greatly moved Alice. She discussed it with Kohl and later with Leslie Berger at City College. When Alice first met with Berger in 1967, he instantly hired her into City’s Pre-Baccalaureate program. Alice spoke so highly of Mina that she was also given an interview and position. With the budget cuts of the mid 1970s, Alice worked for Mina as a "skills expert" in CUNY’s midtown offices.
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