campus partner(s)

Fairfield University

state(s)

CT

amount

$25,000

initiative

Cornerstone: Learning for Living

award date

05.2026

project director

Sunil Purushotham; Ryan Drake

Grant Summary

$25,000 over 12 months to develop a suite of transformative text gateway courses within Fairfield’s required first-year humanities curriculum, fostering a common intellectual experience grounded in the Jesuit tradition of cura personalis, or care for the whole person.