Wendy Sternberg, Union College
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The fundamental mission of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is to support and advance the arts and humanities. Mellon’s educational grants programs accomplish this goal by helping institutions respond to the “economic, demographic, financial, and technological challenges affecting higher education” and by actively engaging institutional structures to “promote the social value of the humanities”. Institutions like Union are in a unique position to leverage resources provided by the Mellon Foundation to support interdisciplinary efforts and to build strong bridges between and among the arts and humanities and science and technology disciplines. This talk will briefly summarize Union’s experience with the Foundation’s funding mechanisms, culminating in our recent $800,000 institutional grant entitled, “Our Shared Humanities”.