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Wisdom from the Class of 2024
Evolving Higher Education
How can institutional change drive social change?
Writer, educator, and 2022-2023 Mellon Fellow in Residence Natalie Diaz, who directs the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University. Photo: Lelanie Foster for Mellon Foundation
If higher education is to be just, then it must be open to all. Creating a more inclusive landscape at the institutional level is paramount to deepening the role that education plays in our society. Through initiatives like improved course offerings, extended research, and growing representation among the professoriate, Mellon is dedicated to fostering an exchange of ideas that paves the way for a better human experience.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
On the Syllabus: New Solutions to the Climate Crisis
The Regents of the University of California
Proof of Concept at the University of California
University of Montana
Putting Indigenous Stories Back in the Picture
March 8, 2022
Opinion: Studying Humanities can Prepare the Next Generation of Social Justice Leaders
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program
30 Years and Counting: Celebrating MMUF and its Fellows in Higher Education
Agnes Scott College
Preserving, Teaching, and Sharing a Fuller History of a College and Its Community
College of Charleston
Taking Women’s and Gender Studies from Theory to Practice
Leigh Raiford
Co-Director, The Black Studies Collaboratory
UC Berkeley
Co-Director, The Black Studies Collaboratory
UC Berkeley
“We’re in a moment where the task of building life-affirming institutions is more urgent than ever.”
Arizona State University
RaceB4Race: How it Started and How it’s Growing
Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.
Archiving Student Activism Means More than You Think
Mellon Voices
The Words and Wisdom of Natalie Diaz
University of California at Berkeley
The World-Building Potential of Black Studies
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