Announcements Archive 2004

2004 Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients Named
December 17, 2004

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has named the fourth group of recipients of its Distinguished Achievement Awards. Intended to underscore the decisive contributions the humanities make to the nation’s intellectual life, the awards, amounting to as much as $1.5 million each, honor scholars who have made significant contributions to humanistic inquiry.
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Bowen Delivers Jefferson Lectures at the University of Virginia
April 14, 2004

In April 2004, William G. Bowen, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, delivered a series of lectures on “Equity and Excellence in Higher Education” as the Jefferson Foundation Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Virginia. In the lectures, Bowen integrated prior work with new evidence from a recently collected dataset to explore the achievements and remaining challenges of American higher education in attaining “excellence with equity.” The well-attended lectures were sponsored by the University of Virginia, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and the University’s Curry School of Education.
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