Illinois Wesleyan receives $350,000 grant from Mellon Foundation

Posted on February 1, 2016

By Joe Ragusa

BLOOMINGTON – The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is giving Illinois Wesleyan University a $350,000 grant.

The university plans to create a three-year program with the money, aimed at addressing the growing diversity in the student population.

Provost Jonathan Green said it can be hard for teachers to keep up.

“A lot of us started teaching college before our students were even born,” Green said. “We have a more diverse student population, not only in the ways people normally think of that, but in terms of students coming from around the world and around the country.”

The money will be specifically used to hire teaching mentors, a visiting professor and to create workshops for professors to work through issues culture and the humanities.

Joe Ragusa can be reached at [email protected].

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