{"id":74248,"date":"2018-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-joins-with-10-northeast-colleges-universities-to-form-first-of-its-kind-humanities-consortium\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T00:00:00","slug":"uri-joins-with-10-northeast-colleges-universities-to-form-first-of-its-kind-humanities-consortium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/uri-joins-with-10-northeast-colleges-universities-to-form-first-of-its-kind-humanities-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 joins with 10 Northeast colleges, universities to form first-of-its-kind humanities consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 18, 2018 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center for the Humanities is joining with 10 other Northeast colleges and universities to form the New England Humanities Consortium, which will promote intellectual collaboration, interdisciplinary exchange and innovative programming for faculty, students, and the regional, national and global communities they\u00a0serve.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium, a first of its kind in the region, was established with the support of a $100,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and will focus on programming in such\u00a0fields as history, language, art, literature and philosophy. Along with 溏心vlog免费B站, the founding institutions are Amherst College, Colby College, Dartmouth College, Northeastern University, Tufts University, the University of Connecticut, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Vermont, Wellesley College and Wheaton College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe consortium and the Mellon grant offer new possibilities and collaborations that we haven\u2019t even imagined,\u201d said Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center for the Humanities. \u201cCollectively our voices are stronger to elevate our disciplines\u2019 dialogue and their impact in society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Northeast is a worldwide center for research in the humanities and this consortium will allow us to do something genuinely new \u2014 to embark on\u00a0initiatives that no single institution could accomplish on their own,\u201d said Michael Lynch, director of UConn\u2019s Humanities Institute (UCHI). &#8220;UCHI is tremendously proud\u00a0to be a part of this important endeavor.\u201d Lynch will serve as the consortium\u2019s first executive director.<\/p>\n<p>The Mellon Foundation funding will support initial\u00a0programing and assist in the development of administrative practices as well as future projects. The grant supports two pilot projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A working group to aid in supporting, mentoring and creating research collaborations for faculty of color in New England.<\/li>\n<li>A lecture series \u2013 \u201cTime\u2019s Up: What Now?\u201d \u2013 that will move among students, faculty and speakers across three campuses to serve as a model for future joint speaker and faculty events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 18, 2018 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center for the Humanities is joining with 10 other Northeast colleges and universities to form the New England Humanities Consortium, which will promote intellectual collaboration, interdisciplinary exchange and innovative programming for faculty, students, and the regional, national and global communities they\u00a0serve. The consortium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}