Higher Learning: The wonderfully encouraging results of a New College grant

The $750,000 award is to promote the arts and humanities.

Last October, New College of Florida received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to promote the arts and humanities both at New College and in the region as a whole. The five-year “Connecting the Arts and Humanities on Florida’s Creative Coast” grant recognizes the extraordinary richness of the Sarasota-Bradenton area in both cultural and academic institutions and aims to serve as a catalyst for collaboration and to develop sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships between area colleges and arts organizations.