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4/19/99

SLU GETS $1 MILLION GRANT TO FUND NEW FACULTY POSITIONS

CANTON - The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation has approved 
a $1 million challenge grant to St. Lawrence University to provide 
start-up funding for five new interdisciplinary tenure-track faculty 
positions.
	The grant will be paid to the University over four years, and 
will be matched by another $1 million to be raised by St. Lawrence.
	Each of the new positions will be created to meet three objectives:
	- To help strengthen and solidify the University's existing 
programs in geographically based area studies.
	- To form a core group of scholars who will work together and 
with other faculty at St. Lawrence to develop specific ways to bridge 
area studies programs.
	- To provide the opportunity to explore how to interrelate global, 
area and intercultural studies to better prepare students to be productive 
and responsible citizens in an increasingly culturally diverse world.
	It is expected that St. Lawrence will implement a new major program 
in global studies, bringing area studies programs together in conversation 
and collaboration with each other. 
	Currently St. Lawrence has five area studies programs: Canadian 
studies; Asian Studies; African Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies 
and European Studies. The new Global Studies model will assist in developing 
better connections between these programs, while also addressing in greater 
comparative depth an investigation of states, nations, cultures, communities, 
ecologies and economies as they exist in larger structural, cultural and 
natural contexts.
	"I am very pleased that the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation 
has recognized St. Lawrence University's vision of international education," 
President Daniel F. Sullivan said. "This new initiative will help us build 
upon our strengths, and move forward in providing students with the skills 
and knowledge they will need as they enter the increasingly complex and 
interdependent world in which we live. We are grateful for their support in 
the development of this important program."
	The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation awarded a grant of 
$560,000 to St. Lawrence in 1995, for curriculum development efforts aimed 
at increasing intercultural awareness. An independent organization based in 
New York City, the Foundation supports private institutions of higher learning 
at the undergraduate level and educational outreach programs of visual and 
performing arts organizations.

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