俄亥俄卫斯理大学获4,000万美元捐赠 设立人文艺术学院并为教师加薪
位于俄亥俄州特拉华市（Delaware）、哥伦布都会区的俄亥俄卫斯理大学（Ohio Wesleyan University）10月23日在校园活动中宣布，获得一笔4,000万美元捐赠，将用于设立以 Harriet Zahn Mecum 命名的文理学院——Mecum 人文艺术学院，并整体提高教师薪酬。
捐赠来自该校1956届校友、已故的 Dudley C. Mecum 二世及其家人。校长 Matt vandenBerg 在活动中同时公布了学校的新定位：「美国最适合雄心勃勃的自我探索的大学」。
校方指出，据美国国家教育统计中心数据，约80%的大学生在校期间至少更换一次专业，大学对18岁新生过早选定专业与职业道路施加了过大压力。该校此前已推出为特拉华县合格学生提供全额学费奖学金的 Delaware Promise 等项目。
来源：GSM·美国
Ohio Wesleyan Receives $40 Million Gift to Create Arts and Humanities College, Raise Faculty Pay
Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, in the Columbus metropolitan area, announced at an October 23 campus event a $40 million gift to establish the Harriet Zahn Mecum College of Arts and Humanities and raise faculty salaries across the university.
The gift comes from the late Dudley C. Mecum II, a 1956 graduate, and his family. President Matt vandenBerg used the event to unveil the university's new positioning as "America's university for ambitious self-discovery."
The university notes that about 80 percent of college students change their major at least once, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, and argues that higher education pressures 18-year-old freshmen to choose a major and career path too early. The school previously launched the Delaware Promise, which provides full-tuition scholarships to qualifying Delaware County students.
Source: GSM·America
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