Wheaton receives $250,000 grant to support new curriculum

Wheaton has received a $250,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York to help the college implement its new curriculum. The new curriculum, passed by the faculty last December after a two-year comprehensive review, emphasizes critical foundations of knowledge and connections across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Specifically, the grant will help launch Wheaton's College Learning Center, where students and faculty can develop and refine such foundation skills as writing, research and quantitative reasoning and pursue connections between and among disciplines.

The Center will help coordinate teams of faculty and professional staff who will seek to connect courses from different disciplines, develop effective pedagogy and supervise ongoing evaluation.

A $40,000 Mellon Foundation planning grant, awarded in February, 2000, was critical in Wheaton's ability to conduct this intensive review of the curriculum.

For more information about Wheaton's new curriculum plans, contact the Office of Communications at 508-286-8235.