Rutgers University on Sept. 24 said it has received a $15 million grant from New York’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will be used to establish the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice.
Prabhas Moghe, who is the university’s executive vice president for academic affairs, will oversee the institute. Centers will be based on the New Brunswick, Newark and Camden campuses.
“The nation is at a tipping point with respect to racial and social justice,” said Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway. “This grant will enable Rutgers, an institution older than the country itself, to be an international leader in understanding the causes, effects and solutions to problems that have plagued the world.”
“Rutgers University has long been a home to distinguished scholarship in race and the humanities,” said Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. “We at Mellon are elated to support this truly new, interdisciplinary institute that seeks to resolve global racism and injustice through the power of humanistic inquiry.”
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