Bowen, now president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will receive the award with Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University, for their book on the use of race-sensitive admissions policies. They then systematically addressed many of the issues raised by critics of race-sensitive policies, looking at each supposition and analyzing the data to determine its validity. In an area in which discussions often get bogged down in a wind tunnel of rhetoric, this work represents a guiding light. Bowen is donating his share to Morehouse College in honor of Henry Drewry, former director of Princeton's Teacher Preparation Program and former senior adviser at the Mellon Foundation who started the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program. The awards in music composition, education, ideas improving world order, religion and psychology were established by the late Charles Grawemeyer, a philanthropist and Louisville alumnus, to recognize powerful ideas or creative works in the arts and sciences.
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