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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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Diverse Students Are Going Hungry at the Cafeteria Curriculum

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Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.

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

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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 focus of the hires will be on scholars whose research interests involve matters of people of color, race, racism, inequality, and struggles for equality and justice.

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CUNY Graduate Center Selects 65 Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Doctoral and Faculty Fellows

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Faculty fellows get $2,000 stipends for research and curriculum development projects. The fellows – 20 CUNY Graduate Center doctoral student fellows and 45 faculty fellows – will be affiliated with CUNY’s BRES Collaboration Hub and will do research and create curricula to improve Black, race, and ethnic studies at CUNY.

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Research Finds that Higher Ed is Responsive to Labor Markets

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The paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of human capital responses to shifts in labor market demand for oft-critiqued undergraduate programs at four-year institutions across the U.S. He said institutions need flexibility to make changes to their curriculums that accommodate the changing needs of the labor market.

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

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Dr. Darius Young Young is a history professor at the FAMU College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. The funding supports faculty and student fellowship programs, undergraduate and graduate student research, learning communities for curriculum development and course enhancements, and cultural programming.

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Teacher-Run Organization Seeks to Educate Students on Historical Resistance Efforts

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Kesha James Now going into its third year of operations, the Antiracist Curriculum Project (ACP) has been working diligently to develop social studies curriculum that teaches students about the systemic injustices and historical resistance that took place in their part of the state. The Rochester region is consistently one of the U.S.’s