Mellon Grant

In the Fall of 2004, Drew University received a grant of $230,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of several initiatives designed to improve and strengthen foreign language instruction and study. Specifically, the grant will provide full or partial funding for:

• A faculty development program designed to provide the foreign language faculty with the knowledge and resources they need to effectively integrate advanced technologies into their teaching;

• A Director of Foreign Language Technology Services to collaborate with and support the foreign language faculty in identifying and incorporating the use of advanced forms of technology for teaching and research;

• A “foreign language across the curriculum” program of tutorials taught by foreign language faculty and taken in tandem with a cognate course. These tutorials will enable students with at least intermediate level proficiency in a foreign language to read and interpret texts in the foreign language which would support work in the cognate course and/or to conduct research for the course in the language, and;

• An assessment instrument to evaluate the impact of the proposed activities.