Brown Receives $1.6 Million Grant for Open Graduate Education Program
Thursday, September 20, 2018
The Andrew Mellon Foundation awarded the Brown University Graduate School a $1.675 million five-year grant to support the University’s Open Graduate Education program.
The program allows doctoral students to simultaneously complete a master’s degree in a different field of study.
“The Open Graduate Education program is inspired by the Open Curriculum for undergraduate students at Brown. We are leading the way in one of the most notable movements in graduate education today: seeking to bridge fields of knowledge and types of inquiry from multiple academic disciplines,” said Andrew G. Campbell, dean of the Graduate School.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThe majority of the grant funds will support fellowships that replace teaching assistantships for Open Graduate Education students, freeing valuable time to pursue their research and allowing them to complete both degree programs in the same time it would typically take to complete a traditional Ph.D.
The Program
Launched in 2011, the program currently comprises 72 doctoral students.
“The program engages graduate students in learning across disparate fields of study in an innovative, entrepreneurial way, with as many different combinations of study as there are students in the program,” said Vanessa Ryan, associate dean of the Graduate School.
More than half of those students are pursuing master’s degrees in academic divisions distinct from those that house their Ph.D. programs — enabling them to graduate with distinctive degree combinations rooted in the humanities, social sciences, life sciences or physical sciences.
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