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Making progress also requires that we revisit and rethink the processes and policies that govern how we identify, recruit, mentor, and support faculty from underrepresented backgrounds.Īmong the new opportunities made possible is the Mellon Fellows Program, a four-year program that seeks to integrate recent PhDs into the academic, social, and professional contexts essential to flourishing and sustained success. Making progress on inclusive excellence in higher education requires a commitment to diversity and social justice throughout an institutionin pedagogy, policies, and practicesand the faculty, students, and staff must reflect the diversity of thought and identities of our society, said Stephanie Browner, Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.
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Its components include two interconnected efforts: (1) a pathway to full and deeply-rooted establishment in the professoriate for recent PhDs from underrepresented groups and others whose work furthers the diversification of the academy, and (2) a university-wide seminar focused on creating an inclusive, rigorous, and lively intellectual community, scholarship diversification, and the integration of scholarly and community-based research. The initiatives activities will unfold over the next four years. The program will also seek to deepen social justice work and scholarship throughout the university and with community partners. The ambitious Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence at The New School will foster the essential mentorship and professional development of emerging scholars at the doctoral, post-doctoral, and professorship levels. Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School received $500,000 to advance politically engaged art practices, scholarship, and public engagement. The New School was awarded $5 million to establish the Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence, a university-wide project to increase the demographic and intellectual diversity of the professoriate in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences. We are enormously grateful for Mellons support, which will strengthen vital scholarly skills in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences, advance equity and inclusion in our faculty ranks, and further our commitments to scholarship and public discourse on the significance of art as an instrument for political engagement. These awards are a wonderful affirmation of the role of equitable and open scholarship and of The New Schools distinctive heritage of progressive education that directly furthers social justice and empowerment. McBride, President of The New School, expressed gratitude for the Mellon Foundations support and recognition: The Mellon Foundation has an unparalleled role in funding pioneering programs in the arts and humanities.
Together, these grants represent the largest Mellon Foundation gift to The New School and will significantly impact initiatives that will further its long-held values of equity, social justice and the political agency of art.ĭwight A. Mellon Foundation to advance demographic and intellectual diversity and politically engaged art, scholarship and public engagement at the university.
The New School has received two grants totaling $5.5 million from The Andrew W.