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Mary Miller
Yale University plans to use a $1.95 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to “broaden the scope of humanities teaching, learning and research,” according to a news release issued by the school on Monday.
“The four-year grant will help to develop a comprehensive plan integrating new approaches to humanities education … from the undergraduate through the postdoctoral levels,” according to the school’s news release, which quotes Yale College’s dean, Mary Miller, as saying, “Our goal is to establish a flow of new ideas … making it possible for faculty and students alike to participate in broader conversations across the humanistic disciplines.”
With the grant, the university plans to “develop team-taught courses that cross the boundaries of (undergraduate) academic departments … introduce a new concentration for doctoral students … (and) build on an already existing program for post-graduate fellows,” according to the news release, which indicates that the university “is also considering … a cost-sharing plan whereby Yale would pay part of the salaries for recent Yale Ph.D.s to teach at small liberal arts colleges and other universities within a two-hour driving radius of New Haven.”
Read Yale’s news release here. Learn more about The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s grant programs here.