El Nuevo Día writes that the Mellon Basis accredited two grants for the College of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras. One is for college kids inquisitive about finishing a Grasp’s diploma in Cultural Administration and Administration and the opposite is for the event of this system on Afro-Puerto Rican tradition, “Puerto Rico Afro: Tiznando el país—Visualidades y Representaciones.”
The Mellon Basis just lately accredited two grants for the Río Piedras Campus of the College of Puerto Rico (UPR) for a complete of $2,948,000. The primary one is for $1,948,000, managed by Professor Pedro Reina Pérez, will assist, for 5 years, a brand new program to grant college students (Mellon-MAGAC Scholarships) who’re inquisitive about finishing the Grasp’s diploma in Cultural Administration and Administration within the Faculty of Humanities. Likewise, it’s going to permit the recruitment of a full-time visiting professor (Mellon MAGAC visiting professor); it’s going to create a seed fund to assist high-promise pupil completion tasks; it’s going to assist begin a fund to assist journey for instructors and college students; it’s going to partially assist the Harvard Puerto Winter Institute, in partnership with Harvard College; and it’ll finance the updating of digital tools and supplies.
The second grant—$1,000,000—is for the event of this system “Puerto Rico Afro: Tiznando el país-Visualidades y Representaciones,” housed within the Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Institute (INIM) of the Faculty of Basic Research, which has Dr. María Elba Torres Muñoz as principal investigator and mission director; affiliate professor Dr. Janine Santiago as co-director and researcher; Dr. Silene Vargas Díaz as evaluator; and Maritza Rodríguez Nieves as administrator. “Puerto Rico Afro: Tiznando el país- Visualidades y Representaciones” is an initiative in collaboration with the Alliance of Museums of Puerto Rico.
This transdisciplinary analysis and academic mission will assist deliver schooling on visible arts, tradition, and cinema to varied communities, with an emphasis on the decolonial perspective of Afro-descendants, with the goal of presenting an anti-racist paradigm to younger college students, the group of the aged, who in lots of circumstances have been left behind, and to cultural facilities and the cities of the island. This revolutionary initiative in Puerto Rico places the UPR-RP and these educators on the forefront of pertinent and transversal schooling on discourses of race, historical past, tradition, and ethnicities.
For Dr. Angélica Varela Llavona—interim rector of the Río Piedras Campus of the UPR—”these two grants attest to the educational excellence that characterizes the primary campus of the College of Puerto Rico and to the boldness with which we’re distinguished by an establishment of the caliber of the Mellon Basis, an entity for whose assist we’re deeply grateful.” [. . .]
Excerpts translated by Ivette Romero. For the total, authentic article (in Spanish), see https://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/cultura/notas/the-mellon-foundation-aprueba-millonarias-subvenciones-para-el-recinto-de-rio-piedras-de-la-universidad-de-puerto-rico/
[Photo above by Carlos Giusti.]