Grants and Gifts

• The University of Massachusetts at Amherst received a three-year, $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a mentoring program for early-career women and minority faculty members.

• Virginia State University, the historically black educational institution in Petersburg, received a $100,000 grant from the Stafford Foundation to support the university’s Low Income Families With Talented Students scholarship program.

• Historically black Texas Southern University received a $2.74 million grant from the Houston Endowment to study the effectiveness of the university’s Urban Academic Village as a tool to improve student retention and graduation rates.

• Howard University, the historically black educational institution in the nation’s capital, received a $70,000 grant from the General Motors Foundation to support the university’s Corporate Team Adoption Program in which GM engineers and design professionals mentor university students.

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