Thursday, February 4, 2016
Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities
The University of Pennsylvania has announced a $5.1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of efforts to increase the number of Latino professors in the humanities at U.S. colleges and universities.
With the grant, the Center for Minority Serving Institutions in Penn's Graduate School of Education will launch Pathways to the Professoriate, an initiative to prepare ninety students from Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) for Ph.D. programs over five years. Undergraduates selected to participate in the program will take part in intensive summer research programs and cross-institutional conferences, while receiving mentoring and assistance applying to and enrolling in graduate school. Partners in the effort include three HSIs — Florida International University; the University of Texas, El Paso; and California State University, Northridge — and five research institutions — New York University; the University of California, Berkeley; Northwestern University; the University of California, Davis; and Penn. . .