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Big Funding Boost For Five College's Native And Indigenous Studies

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The Five College Consortium in western Massachusetts has received a $2.5 million grant to enhance Native American and indigenous studies.

Awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the grant is one of the largest received by the consortium in its more than 50-year history.

The four-year grant will be used to develop expanded curriculum, hire more faculty, recruit more Native American students and put on special programs, according to UMass Amherst professor Laura Furlan, the chair of the Five College’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Committee.

She spoke with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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