October 30, 2007 - 11:00pm
By Venus Wu
Increasing diversity in American colleges may seem like a dream goal, but with a $630,000 renewal grant, Prof. Satya Mohanty, English, a founder of The Future of Minority Studies Research Project, is closer to achieving it.
FMS has received a three-year, $630,000 renewal grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation last June. The Project is a research network that includes about 300 scholars studying minority issues.