Colby Echo News October 6, 2016 Dean of the College Burrell-Mcrae ’94 Sets Goals SGA Holds Second Meeting Wrong
THE OLBY CHO Volume CXXXIX, No. 4 C Published by Colby Students since 1877 E October 6, 2016 Colby receives grant from the Mellon Foundation BY GRANT ALENSON higher education and scholar- News Editor ship in the humanities Across the globe, the foun- Mellon Foundation grant dation has given over 15,379 grants, totaling over $5.93 awarded to Colby for the de- billion. This isn’t the first time the College has received velopment of environmental a grant from the Mellon Foun- dation. Since the foundation’s humanities initiative. inception in 1969, the College has received over $7.5 million, Colby recently received an the first grant was $200,000 $800,000 grant from The An- in 1971, to support a project drew W. Mellon Foundation titled “faculty support.” Most to support the development recently, the College received of a campus-wide multidisci- $100,000 for a project titled plinary initiative in environ- “New Presidents,” according mental humanities. to mellon.org. Other proj- Founded in 1969, according ects have included grants to to their website (mellon.org), the art museum and art cur- The Andrew W. Mellon Foun- riculum, environmental stud- dation endeavors to “strength- ies, foreign language teaching en, promote, and, where neces- and technology, the Goldfarb sary, defend the contributions Center for Public Affairs & Courtesy of Colby Enviornmental Studies Department of the humanities and the arts Civic Engagement, institu- Enviornmental Studies majors conduct hands-on research at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. Programs such as this will benefit to human flourishing and to tional planning, and study greatly from the Mellon Foundation grant.
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