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Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut

The Guardian Higher Education

Education secretary Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education Ministers will cut funding for performing and creative arts courses at English universities next year, which sector leaders say will further damage the country’s cultural industries. Continue reading.

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Center for Politics and Race Honors Late New Jersey Lt. Governor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with Dr. Jacqueline Mattis, the university’s dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. The New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson announced a donation to fund the Lt. James Jones, a sociology and Africana Studies professor at Rutgers-Newark and co-director of the Sheila Y.

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Arts funding must be at the centre of government plans | Letters

The Guardian Higher Education

In response to Charlotte Higgins’s article on a collapse in arts funding Neil Mendoza says Arts Council England boosts cultural projects across the country; plus letters from Dr Alexis Bennett and Andrew Dailey Charlotte Higgins makes the familiar charge that “Arts funding has collapsed under 14 years of Tory rule” ( Opinion, 19 March ).

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Rhodes College Awarded $800,000 for Research on Racial Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission.

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Dartmouth Launches New Research Institute Focused On Black Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dartmouth College has launched the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life (IBICL), a research center focused on the study of the Black diaspora. The Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College is not designed to exclude," said Delalue. The institute is being launched with initial funding of $2.3

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Mellon Foundation Announces More Than $12 Million for Social Justice Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Phillip Brian Harper In Spring 2022, the foundation had invited proposals from institutions – accredited, non-profit, four-year liberal arts degree-granting U.S. Mellon Foundation pledged more than $12 million to 26 U.S. colleges and universities working on social justice-related research or curricular projects.

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Georgetown and Howard Universities Awarded $3 Million for Medical Humanities Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. Medical humanities recenters health in a broader social, cultural, and historical context, using humanities and social sciences methods to analyze the contexts of illness and health.

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