campus partner(s)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

state(s)

MA

amount

$300,000

initiative

Cornerstone: Learning for Living

award date

05.2023

project director

Moira Inghilleri; Patrick Mensah; Barry Spence

Grant Summary

$300,000 over 24 months to implement a year-long sequence of two Cornerstone gateway courses: “Traversing Difference with Critical and Creative Thinking—Local Questions” and “Traversing Difference with Critical and Creative Thinking—Global Issues.” After completing the gateway sequence, students can choose to pursue a five-course sequence in one of four thematic clusters that meet general education distribution requirements.