Grant will be used to establish a Humanities Hub
The Mellon Foundation announced today that Claflin University was awarded $1,489,000 to establish a Humanities Hub that will focus on place-based collaborations, embedding social justice content in the general education curriculum, and community-participatory research. Claflin’s Humanities Hub will promote race/ gender equity, environmental justice, and community wellbeing. The approach centers on recruiting and nurturing students in the humanities as scholar-activists committed to cultural preservation, solutions-oriented research, and visionary leadership.
Claflin was one of 10 liberal arts colleges/universities that received grants totaling more than $14 million as part of Humanities for All Times, a Mellon Foundation humanities-based education initiative supporting newly developed curricula that both instruct future visionaries and the next generation of social justice leaders in methods of humanities practice and demonstrate those methods’ relevance to broader social justice pursuits. The Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest funder of the arts, culture, and humanities.
