Posted on Jan 30, 1998

A grant of $335,000 to Union College from The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation of New York City will be used to improve educational effectiveness and gain
financial efficiencies through the use of electronic resources, it was announced by
President Roger Hull.

The three-year grant will enable faculty to experiment with and adapt
computer and multimedia technologies and tools in the freshman preceptorial and to develop
new interdisciplinary team-taught courses that will incorporate new technologies.

“This generous grant from The Mellon Foundation helps support an
important transition at Union College,” Hull said. “As we near completion of two
important buildings – the F.W. Olin Center and the renovated and expanded Schaffer
Library – Union College enters an era in which our faculty will be able to call on
the very latest and best technology to provide students a first-rate education.”

Union's dean of faculty, Linda Cool, said the grant will support
training workshops for faculty in curriculum development using new technological
applications, a curricular design specialist and three well-trained student technical
assistants, and the purchase of videoconferencing equipment for one classroom, which will
facilitate collaboration with other institutions. “This grant will allow Union to
make a huge leap ahead in the creation and delivery of courses that will challenge and
excite future current and future generations of Union students,” Cool said.