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Mellon Grant to Improve Student Writing Skills
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AUBulletin Today
News Publication, Volume VI, Issue
4
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded AUB a three-year $300,000
grant to support initiatives in teaching and technology, writing
across the curriculum, and faculty development in the humanities and
related social sciences. In making the announcement, Provost Peter
Heath said, “The Mellon Foundation has already played a critical
role in our work in these areas. We are grateful for their
continued support of our efforts.”
The
Mellon Foundation grant will be used to strengthen integration among
several ongoing initiatives at AUB: faculty workshops and seminars
on teaching methods and academic advising, the Academic Computing
Center, and library information services. The grant will also be
used to initiate a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum program to improve
students’ composition writing and analytic skills. “It is critical
that we work with our students and faculty members to encourage
writing at AUB. Our students need these skills in order to compete
effectively when they enter the job market. In addition, it has
been demonstrated that good writing promotes the learning process
itself,” Heath explained.
Further use of the grant will be made as well to support the
intellectual and scholarly activities of professors and students
working in the humanities by providing them with funds to sustain a
common research agenda and broaden their interdisciplinary
cooperation.
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