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Dickinson Receives $1.4 Million Grant from Andrew Mellon for Sustainability Education |
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
Dickinson has received the largest grant from a private foundation in its history, a three-year $1.4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a major College initiative in environmental studies. The grant will fund a director and project monies for a center for environmental and sustainability education, a new faculty position in environmental health and a geographic information systems (GIS) postdoctoral fellow. In accepting the grant, the College agrees to raise matching funds to endow the faculty position long-term and to hire a GIS technician to teach the GIS course and support the post-doc.
President Durden said in a letter to staff and students, “Expectation is that this grant will launch our environmental and sustainability initiative in the same fashion that our National Endowment for the Humanities grants in international education in the 1980's launched our global education program. The grant from Mellon will serve as the catalyst for a major focus on environmental studies. By enhancing the curricular dimension of our already exceptional commitment to sustainability, the grant will move the College into a leadership position on the environment, such as we have in global education."
The investment Dickinson College made into sustainability over the last 20 years is really paying off as sustainability becomes a more accepted practice through out the country. Some might say its even a requirement at some level now for institutions of higher learning. Thanks to the work of the college, students, and Alumni people's hard work over the last 20 years is continuing to pay off.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 January 2008 )
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