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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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Wayne State University Receives $6 Million Grant for Humanities Faculty Cluster Hire and Black Studies Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. The grant also helps fund the launch of the Detroit Center for Black Studies, which will be faculty-led and help connect Black Studies faculty from Michigan institutions.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. Students and their families don’t understand the inner workings.”

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Young to Head-up FAMU Center for African and African American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Darius Young Young is a history professor at the FAMU College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. MacArthur Foundation granted a total $550,000 to support the center; each gifted FAMU $275,000. Young will serve as director of the new Center for African and African American Studies at Florida A&M University.

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Wayne State University Receives $6 Million for Cluster Hire Program and Black Studies Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wayne State University has received $6 million to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black studies center. and global histories, culture, social, economic, legal, and health systems. .

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In our field of biomedical engineering there are all these aspects of hidden curriculum that we wanted to be able to address by creating a community,” Moore said. She uses her visibility as a Black female scientist at the University of Florida, a Research 1 institution, to advocate for others. “In

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences, mentions the bachelor’s degree in health services management, which began in fall 2019 in response to career interests of students in the health sciences and biological sciences. His role in the creation of the new major has been developing curriculum, course content and rubrics.