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Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages the Focus of $2.5 Million Grant

Michigan State University was awarded a four-year, $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support further development in the research and teaching of less commonly taught languages (LCTLs), with an emphasis on Indigenous languages.…

Christopher LongJuly 25, 2019

Grants, Fellowships, Awards Vita

Creating Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences

To support the Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) initiative, Michigan State University has received a $309,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The collaborative HuMetricsHSS pilot aims to create a…

Christopher LongJuly 10, 2017

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

$1.2M Mellon Grant for Big 10 Academic Alliance Partnership on LCTLs

Michigan State University will use a three-year $1.2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to lead a multi-university research project to improve the teaching of less commonly taught languages, or LCTLs. Faculty from MSU’s Center for…

Christopher LongSeptember 1, 2016

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Mellon Grant Expands Support for the Public Philosophy Journal

Here is the press release we wrote for the second Public Philosophy Journal grant from the Mellon Foundation: Penn State has been awarded $549,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for an additional two years…

Christopher LongJanuary 9, 2015

Academic Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Long Road

The End of the Beginning and the Path Ahead for @PubPhilJ

On Friday, October 4th, we received the good news that the Mellon Foundation's Scholarly Communications and Information Technology program will provide $236K to support the development of the Public Philosophy Journal (PPJ, aka @PubPhilJ). The grant marks the end of…

Christopher LongOctober 18, 2013

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The Public Philosophy Journal $236,000 Mellon Grant

The Public Philosophy Journal, an innovative open access, open peer review online publication in philosophy, has received a one-year, $236,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will support the development of the…

Christopher LongOctober 16, 2013

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

ALP at Penn State: A Vision of the New Research University

University budgeting and strategic planning was the focus of the final Academic Leadership Program (ALP) sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) held at Penn State, April 12-14, 2012. No two topics have more…

Christopher LongApril 22, 2012

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

ALP at University of Chicago: Virtues of an Education for Democracy

In her address to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program at the University of Chicago last Thursday, Martha Nussbaum offered a compelling defense of a liberal arts education. She advocated for an education…

Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2012

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

ALP at Indiana: Herman B. Wells

Sometimes without looking, one finds a paradigm - an example that can serve as a model. Last week I visited Indiana University as a one of Penn State's Academic Leadership Fellows in the Academic Leadership Program of…

Christopher LongNovember 11, 2011

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ETS Summer Faculty Fellowship

I am very excited to have been awarded a 2009 Education Technology Services Summer Faculty Fellowship. The project I will be working on this summer, Socratic Politics in Digital Dialogue, is designed to explore the…

Christopher LongApril 1, 2009

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