{"id":121367,"date":"2021-02-08T17:25:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T22:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121367"},"modified":"2021-02-08T17:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T22:42:48","slug":"mellon-foundation-shells-out-72-million-in-anti-racist-curriculum-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mellon-foundation-shells-out-72-million-in-anti-racist-curriculum-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellon Foundation Shells Out $72 Million In \u2018Anti-Racist\u2019 Curriculum Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmellon-foundation-shells-out-72-million-in-anti-racist-curriculum-grants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121367&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/University-of-Michigan.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation dished out $72 million in grants to American universities to create \u201canti-racist\u201d curricula and programming.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the Mellon Foundation\u2019s<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mellon.org\/initiatives\/just-futures\/\"><span>website<\/span><\/a><span>, 16 \u201cmultidisciplinary, university-based teams across the US who are committed to racial justice and social equality\u201d received up to five million dollarsf to work on \u201canti-racist\u201d projects. Projects were supposed to be \u201cambitious\u201d and address racial inequality in \u201cbold and imaginative ways.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Mellon Foundation is the largest funder of the arts and humanities in the United States. The organization has a total endowment of nearly $7 trillion.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the winners, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, proposed creating a curriculum to advance \u201canti-racist\u201d pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM). Another winner, the University of Michigan, proposed a study into a \u201ccommunity-based reparations solution.\u201d The University of Michigan won grants for two proposals.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The University of Michigan offered the most controversial proposal \u2014 addressing and offering racial reparations. The university said that in its \u201cpursuit of a more democratic society\u201d it will work with a network of universities and organizations to offer \u201ctangible solutions for racial reparations.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cReparations refers to compensation, which may include a national apology, educational, housing, and healthcare programs, and financial redress from the U.S. government to Native Americans for genocide and African Americans for the detrimental effects of slavery and beyond,\u201d the university announcement<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/social-solutions\/news-events\/news\/inside-the-center\/project-announcements\/mellon-just-futures-grant.html\"><span>reads<\/span><\/a><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wisc.edu\/project-to-create-anti-racism-education-wins-mellon-grant\/\"><span>press release<\/span><\/a><span>, the University of Wisconsin indicated that its project will work \u201cto address a lack of awareness of histories of racism in academic disciplines, especially in scientific disciplines.\u201d The project is rooted in \u201canti-racism\u201d and critical race theory. Part of critical race theory involves challenging objectivity to emphasize a commitment to social justice.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The school will approach the project through a critical race theory lens. The team said it will collect \u201coral histories\u201d of the \u201clived experiences of Black and Native students\u201d to obtain \u201cdata.\u201d The team will then use the data to develop \u201cculturally appropriate\u201d curricula for courses on systemic racism.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In three years, the University of Wisconsin plans to roll out resources on the history of systemic racism, including teacher trainings and workshops.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Other universities that received funding include:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Brown University&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Columbia University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Cornell University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Florida International University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Howard University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Johns Hopkins University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Michigan State University<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>University of California-Berkeley<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>University of California-Riverside<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>University of Minnesota-Twin Cities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>University of Oregon<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>University of Pennsylvania<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>University of Texas-San Antonio<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Other programs include addressing the crossroads between climate and racial justice (University of Oregon) and exploring the \u201cpolitical stakes\u201d for \u201cLatinx\u201d communities (University of California-Riverside).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation dished out $72 million in grants to American universities to create \u201canti-racist\u201d curricula and programming.\u00a0 According to the Mellon Foundation\u2019s website, 16 \u201cmultidisciplinary, university-based teams &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892926,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4040,5875,5876,5873,4116,5248],"class_list":["post-121367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-curriculum","tag-foundation","tag-grants","tag-mellon","tag-million","tag-shells"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}