基金会与企业关系办公室: The Office of 基金会及企业关系 works in partnership with Skidmore College's faculty, administration, alumni 和 friends to secure external funding from national, regional 和 local foundations 和 corporations for campus priorities 和 项目. 我们所做的工作有助于学院提供新的创新项目， support faculty-driven initiatives, exp和 the curriculum, enhance the physical plant 提高我们社区的生活质量.

赞助研究办公室: The mission of the 赞助研究办公室 is to provide faculty members with the support 和 resources needed to fund 和 manage their creative, scholarly, 和 研究努力. 该办事处为火博体育社区提供高质量的服务 with the goal of increasing externally sponsored funding for individual faculty research while also ensuring compliance with College 和 sponsor policies 和 regulations.

奖强调: Africana Studies 和 the Humanities: Transnational Explorations in Social Justice

梅隆基金会授予火博体育学院1美元.一亿八千五百万资助火博体育 Black Studies Program 和 Racial Justice Teaching Challenge, advancing Africana studies 和 social 正义 at the College through innovative course creation 和 teaching, 本科研究和跨学科合作. 三年补助金 comes as part of the Foundation’s Humanities for 所有 Times initiative, which supports curricular projects in the liberal arts that help students to see 和 experience the 人文学科在现实社会正义目标中的适用性.

Funding for Skidmore’s project, Africana Studies 和 the Humanities: Transnational Explorations in Social Justice, will support the development of new courses for the College’s Black Studies Program through the launch of “learning communities” that will help faculty to refine their own underst和ing of new teaching methods, schools of thought, 和 areas of study that will diversify curriculum 和 illuminate social 学科内部和跨学科的司法问题.

This effort will directly reinforce the College’s Racial Justice Teaching Challenge (RJTC), launched in spring 2021 to increase Skidmore’s curricular focus on racial 正义. 由美国研究部门和黑人研究项目协调 和 supported by the Office of the President 和 the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the RJTC encouraged faculty to develop content on racial 正义 和/or Black studies for their spring 2021 和 fall 2021 courses, in consultation with Associate Professor of American Studies 贝克Krefting 和 Professor 和 Director of the Black Studies Program 温斯顿Grady-Willis, co-principal investigators of the 梅隆格兰特.

The learning communities, three of which were launched last January, are a combined effort of the project team 和 other Skidmore faculty 和 staff across a variety of 学科. 参加活动的还有唐朝教学博物馆、斯克里布纳图书馆和 The Center, a 5,000-square-foot facility that promotes principles of equity, inclusion, 和 正义 in multidisciplinary programming for students, staff, 和 faculty. 所有 of these resources 和 spaces will support research, discussion, 和 creation of new 课程内容.

In addition to supporting course development, the grant will seed undergraduate research that centers on racial 正义 和 engages with colonization/decolonization 和 power 系统和结构. 它还将资助创建两个为期两年的博士后 在黑人研究中有明确的人文基础的职位. 这个项目 在1月中旬开始在全国范围内招聘这些职位.

赞助商亮点:梅隆基金会 

The 梅隆基金会 believes that the arts 和 humanities are where we express our complex humanity, 和 we believe that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, 在那里可以找到自由. 通过我们的赠款，我们寻求建立公正的社区 enriched by meaning 和 empowered by critical thinking, where ideas 和 imagination 可以茁壮成长. 梅隆大学在四个核心项目领域提供资助: 艺术与文化; 高等学校; 人文学科到位; 和 公共知识.