Category: University Press Week

University Press Diversity Fellowship Program

University Press Diversity Fellowship Program

January 21, 2016

It was announced last week that a four-year, $682,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help the University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Duke University Press, the University of Georgia Press, and the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) create a pipeline program to diversify academic publishing by offering apprenticeships in book acquisitions departments. The University Press Diversity Fellowship program will recruit fellows who have “significant personal experience and engagement with diverse communities and a demonstrated ability to bring the understandings gleaned from such engagement to the daily work of academic publishing.” We chat with our own Gita Manaktala, editorial director, about this exciting new collaborative project.

University Press Week: Throwback Thursday featuring Muriel Cooper

University Press Week: Throwback Thursday featuring Muriel Cooper

November 13, 2014

Welcome to Throwback Thursday on the University Press Week blog tour. In our own contribution to the blog tour’s #TBT theme, we offer the following retrospective from Acquisitions Editor Marc Lowenthal on former MIT Press designer Muriel Cooper featuring rarely-before-seen photographs.