{"id":2004,"date":"2021-04-19T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2021-04-21T13:38:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:38:07","slug":"acu-brown-library-receives-endowment-gift-for-africana-studies-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2021\/04\/19\/acu-brown-library-receives-endowment-gift-for-africana-studies-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"ACU Brown Library receives endowment gift for Africana Studies Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1949 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2021\/04\/Hutson-Endowment-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" \/>Dr. Christopher and Mary Lou Hutson of Abilene have made a gift to the Abilene Christian University Brown Library establishing the Christopher and Mary Lou Hutson Africana Studies Collection Endowment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis generous gift will provide consistent funding to build a great collection in the areas of African American and Africana Studies,\u201d said James Wiser, ACU dean of library services and educational technology. \u201cAmerican universities have much work to do in ensuring that students and faculty can learn more from diverse voices, and this endowment will help ACU become a place where more African American and African voices and materials are readily accessible. I am thankful to the Hutsons for their support of that work and for being kind friends of our library.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The permanent endowment fund will support the Brown Library\u2019s acquisition of materials supporting teaching, research and reflection in African American and African Diaspora history, literature and religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, as we all watched that horrific video of George Floyd\u2019s death, so many Americans were moved to take steps to combat systemic racism in our society. We decided we could take a meaningful step by establishing this fund,\u201d said Mary Lou Hutson. \u201cAnd I am proud that my employer, Chubb, matched a significant portion of our gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proceeds from this endowment will allow Brown Library to purchase hundreds of new books each year that support academic work in this interdisciplinary field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of talented African American students at ACU, and they deserve better support from their library. But in fact, all scholars, whether in history, literature, religion, entrepreneurship, sociology, education or whatever, need to take into account how the African Diaspora has shaped our world,\u201d said Dr. Christopher Hutson, associate dean of ACU\u2019s Graduate School of Theology.<\/p>\n<p>The Christopher and Mary Lou Hutson Africana Studies Collection Endowment is one of 11 restricted collections endowments held by Brown Library for supporting acquisition of materials in a specific subject area, and Wiser said he hopes to endow 30 new named collection funds before 2030. For more information about this type of collection endowment, contact Molly Scherer, library communications and development officer, at mollie.scherer@acu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Christopher and Mary Lou Hutson of Abilene have made a gift to the Abilene Christian University Brown Library establishing the Christopher and Mary Lou Hutson Africana Studies Collection Endowment. \u201cThis generous gift will provide consistent funding to build a great collection in the areas of African American and Africana Studies,\u201d said James Wiser, ACU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}