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NEWARK, N.J. – A professor’s legacy usually centers on students whose lives were touched and the scholarship left for future generations. Clement Price will leave those in abundance, as well as a more tangible legacy: the Clement A. Price Endowment for the Humanities, at the campus where he has taught since 1969, Rutgers University in Newark.
Price, who is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History and founding director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience (IECME), has given the university a $100,000 gift to establish the endowment, which will ensure the continuation of the Marion Thompson Wright Lectures Series (MTW) that he co-established 30 years ago with historian Giles R. Wright of the New Jersey Historical Commission. The MTW lecture series evolved from their commitment to public scholarship, civic engagement and lifelong learning. Price was similarly motivated to found the IECME, an interdisciplinary academic program that reaches the greater Newark community through lectures, film, performances, exhibitions, and partnerships with civic and philanthropic institutions.
