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SAS Awarded Mellon Grant |
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SAS Wins Nearly $3 Million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Humanities ProgramsActing Executive Dean Ziva Galili is delighted to announce that the School of Arts and Sciences has recently been awarded $2,793,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which is the largest grant the foundation has given to Rutgers University. Following the interest and priorities established by the Mellon Foundation in supporting graduate studies in the humanities, the grant targets six SAS humanities programs to help them recruit the most qualified students and provide the support that will assure their timely progress toward the Ph.D.
Over the three-year period of the grant, more than 100 students in Art History, Comparative Literature, English, History, Linguistics, and Philosophy will receive funding through three initiatives. Working with the departments, the SAS will establish an Advisory Council to assist with administering the following elements of the grant:
• Stipend enhancements designed to help recruit and support the students best prepared to work with faculty in English, History, and Philosophy.
• Summer research/writing grants designed to support students in the three programs mentioned above who are making excellent progress on coursework and dissertation research, with an additional initiative to award competitive summer research in all six targeted programs.
• Competitive dissertation fellowships, administered by the School of Arts and Sciences, and open to students in all six programs who are making excellent progress toward the degree.
Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for these initiatives will strengthen these humanities programs in significant and strategic ways. By aiding recruitment for English, History, and Philosophy, the stipend enhancements will allow these programs to compete with peer programs that offer much higher stipends, helping them to recruit and support more of the highly qualified students who would be best served by programs at Rutgers.
By competitively supporting summer research and dissertation writing in all six programs, the initiative will raise the level of graduate work being done and encourage timely completion of the degree. The SAS English Department’s recent success with previous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation indicates that summer funding helps students complete primary research, publish their findings, complete degrees in a timely fashion, and compete for prestigious awards and good jobs.
The award to the School of Arts and Sciences is the fruit of a thirty-year relationship between Rutgers and Mellon and follows upon the successful implementation of the recent grant to English, which helped reinforce the foundation’s confidence in Rutgers’ vision for the humanities. The grant process was initiated after President Dick McCormick, along with Joyce Hendricks, Associate Vice President at the Rutgers University Foundation, met with Don Randel, President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Harriet Zuckerman, Senior Vice President at Mellon, and Joseph Meisel, Program Officer for Mellon’s Research Universities and Humanistic Scholarship Programs. Associate Dean Vic Tulli then led the proposal writing effort under the direction of Dean Galili and Dean of Humanities Ann Fabian. The success of this proposal would not have been possible without the contributions of each department during the development phase and the assistance of Mike Marion, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for the Rutgers University Foundation. Rutgers University is particularly grateful to Dr. Zuckerman and Dr. Meisel for their support and interest in helping the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences sustain and elevate a vital core of humanities graduate programs to train new generations of scholars and teachers of the liberal arts.
Rutgers Receives Millions to Recruit and Retain Nation's Best Scholars |
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