campus partner(s)

Mercer County Community College

state(s)

NJ

amount

$300,000

initiative

Cornerstone: Learning for Living

award date

05.2026

project director

Craig Coenen; Amy Vondrak; Bettina Caluori

Grant Summary

$300,000 over 36 months to launch the Reading the Humanities (RH) program, embedding shared readings in two gateway courses and developing a core text stream through general education, flagged as RH sections that emphasize engagement with transformative texts and classroom discussion.