Furman University’s $400 million Because Furman Matters
fundraising campaign received a significant boost
when an alumnus pledged $5 million to the school, the largest outright commitment by an individual in the university’s history. The majority of the gift will support the renovation and expansion of the University Center, the hub of campus activities and student involvement on campus.
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Hendrix College faculty will conduct a broad-based, comprehensive review and redesign of the College’s core general education requirements, thanks to a $450,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Full Story
Dr. Charles McKinney Jr., associate professor of history at Rhodes College, is the winner of the 2011 R.D.W. Connor Award for an outstanding article in the North Carolina Historical Review. The article grows out of McKinney’s research on the Civil Rights Movement in Wilson and chronicles the variety of ways in which civil rights activists worked for “greater freedom” in the decade before the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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The General Motors Foundation awarded $75,000 to Spelman College, Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University through the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Consortium Inc. This gift was made in support of the AUC Dual Degree Engineering Program, which supports science, technology, engineering and math programs at these institutions. This contribution is part of a longstanding partnership, dating back to 1975, established to increase the pipeline of minorities working in STEM fields.
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