UGA Press Mellon Diversity Fellow Moves On

In January 2016 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a four-year, $682,000 grant to the University of Washington Press to create a pipeline program to diversify academic publishing by offering apprenticeships in acquisitions departments. The University of Georgia Press, the MIT Press, Duke University Press, and the AAUP signed on as partners, and the University Press Diversity…

Notes from the Fellow

The welcome and information folder for the 2016 American Association of University Presses Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, at the Loews Philadelphia. As I sat in the Atlanta airport watching the minutes tick by, my anxiety inched higher and higher. I was due to land in Philadelphia for the 2016 Association of American University Presses…