MMUF was established in 1988 by Mellon’s then president William G. Bowen and Henry Drewry, a pioneering African American educator and administrator at Princeton. It began with eight participating institutions: Bryn Mawr College, Carleton College, Cornell University, Hunter College, Oberlin College, Swarthmore College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania. The following year, eleven more schools joined the program, including the UNCF consortium of historically black colleges and universities. By 2001, the number of member institutions had nearly doubled and broadened to include higher learning institutions in South Africa. By 2022, the program included 48 member schools and three consortia.
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