Instead of funding a specific program or endowing a particular faculty chair, reports Inside Higher Ed, The Haynesville Project gives $100,000 to all six professors who earned tenure at Colby College in 2021, to imagine and pursue new research avenues.
Co-Founder Tom Tinsley says, “One of the things that we’re going to do over the next 24 to 36 months is figure out how to build the plumbing, so that if other friends -- and we think there will be others -- want to do this, we can set up the protocols and the ability to do this on a similar time period, perhaps for specific disciplines in other universities.”
