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The New School receives $5.5 million from Mellon Foundation
The New School was awarded $5 million to establish the Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence, a university-wide project to increase the demographic and intellectual diversity of the professoriate in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The New School has received two grants totaling $5.5 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance demographic and intellectual diversity and politically engaged art, scholarship and public engagement at the university. Together, these grants represent the largest Mellon Foundation gift to The New School and will significantly impact initiatives that will further its long-held values of equity, social justice and the political agency of art.