Bennett College for Women News June 30, 2010 Bennett's Center for Global Studies Receives $498,000 Grant The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved a grant to Bennett's Center for Global Studies for $498,000 over three years to support the implementation of President Julianne Malveaux's global studies initiative. The four (4) specific activities that will be implemented are: 1. An International Study Program (ISP) in Salzburg, Austria, on Global Citizenship for 20 Bennett honor students, in collaboration with 20 honor students from King College, an Appalachian college in Bristol, Tennessee; 2. A Maymester Language Immersion Program in a Spanish speaking country; 3. Continuation of the Venezuela Study Abroad Partnership with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill through the Stone Center for Black Culture and History; and 4. Preparation of Bennett students for international careers through a focused mentoring program Dr. Gwendolyn Bookman, director of the Center for Global Studies, stated that "providing these four activities will assist Bennett in meeting the President's goal that fifty percent of the student body has an international experience by 2012. Moreover, they will provide a foundation for our students that will make them more intellectually curious, academically aware and globally astute. Our objective is to offer international experiences that will lead to increased recruitment, student retention and improved graduation rates." SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org www.hbculibraries.org 404.592.4820 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/meeting-form.html for the October 24-26, 2010 HBCU Library Alliance 4th Membership Meeting and the "Conference on Advocacy" pre-conference in Montgomery, AL. The Pre-Conference and Membership meeting are open to directors and other librarians.