DWLLC Director Russ Ganim on Steering and Planning Committees for $8.1 million dollar Mellon Foundation grant

Monday, April 20, 2015

Russ Ganim
Russ Ganim

University of Iowa Professor Russ Ganim is a member of the Steering and Planning Committees for the Undergraduate and Faculty Fellows Program for a Diverse Professoriate, an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The $8.1 million grant will be shared by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM). The ACM’s 14 colleges and universities as the CIC’s 15 research universities will participate in the program. The seven-year initiative will include undergraduate fellowships, fellowships for faculty in tenure-track positions, and a series of annual ACM-CIC meetings and workshops.

Ganim is a professor and the director of the Division of World Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, part of the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He will serve as the University of Iowa contact for the initiative.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.