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The United States Artists (USA) announced its 2021 class of Fellows yesterday, and it’s the largest class in the organization’s history. USA is a philanthropic arts organization based in Chicago, and their mission is to support the development of artists’ visions at any stage of their careers. Sixty U.S.-based artists across ten artistic disciplines have been named USA Fellows and will receive $50,000 in funding to support their artistic work.
The ten categories for artistic disciplines are as follows: Architecture & Design, Craft, Dance, Film, Media, Music, Theater & Performance, Traditional Arts, Visual Art, and Writing. Some past notable fellows in writing include playwright Annie Baker (2011), essayist Charles D’Ambrosio (2007), comics writer Lynda Barry (2019), and journalist Lisa Armstrong (2019). In the writing category, USA Fellows cover wide genres because the org
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With the passing of the internationally respected theological ethicist and emeritus faculty member James M. Gustafson on Jan. 15, the world lost “a towering scholar,” says former Emory President James T. Laney, who led the university’s efforts to recruit him in the late 1980s. Gustafson came to Emory to lead the Luce Seminars, groundbreaking interdisciplinary seminars that not only had a lasting impact on Emory faculty but became a model for other universities.
A native of Michigan, Gustafson was the son of a minister. After receiving a BS from Northwestern University and a BD from Chicago Theological Seminary, he was ordained in the United Church of Christ in 1951 and served as a pastor in Northford, Connecticut, while pursuing doctoral studies at Yale University.
The donation, by Jim and Paula Crown and their family, has been topped but only rarely on the Hyde Park campus: by David Booth’s $300 million gift in 2009 for the business school now bearing his name; by Ken Griffin’s $125 million for the department of economics in 2017; and by $100 million for University of Chicago Medicine from the Duchossois family in 2017. In 2007 the university received $100 million from an undisclosed donor for undergraduate financial aid.
Another $100 million earmark has gone south. After doling out $22.9 million, the Pearson Family Members Foundation sued in 2018 to get the sum back, alleging the U of C didn’t live up to commitments in establishing the Pearson Institute for the Study & Resolution of Global Conflicts. The university denied the claims and filed a motion to dismiss the suit; the litigation is pending federal court in Tulsa, Okla.
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The University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration will receive a $75 million donation, which the school says is the largest gift ever given to a school of social work.
The donation is so impressive that the university said it’s renaming the school as the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice.
The gift, from James and Paula Crown, will bolster financial aid, faculty research and hiring, the school announced Wednesday.
“This truly transformative gift will allow us to build on our research and expand our educational mission, leading to improved policies and interventions that will make deep and sustained change,” school dean Deborah Gorman-Smith said in a statement.
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