Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

for a program to improve the management of local government records in the U.S.

Local Gov't Records

to support an initiative that studies the ways Americans understand history, and to generate successful communication strategies about the importance of history for public audiences

Framing History with the American Public

to improve the management, preservation, and use of local government records

Local Government Records

to support follow-up work of the National Commission on the Role and Future of State Colleges and Universities

National Commission on the Role and Future of State Colleges and Universities

to complete the work of the National Commission on the Role and Future of State Colleges and Universities

National Commission

to support efforts across the humanities, libraries, and local community organizations in Boston to create a digital and analog local history platform for citizen-archivists

Reckonings: A Local History Platform for the Community-Archivist (Phase II)

for a program on interconnections among population, resources, and environment

Population - Resources and Environment

to support the American History Initiative

American History Initiative

to study the feasibility of a program in population, resources, and environmental policy

to support diversification efforts focused on boards and executive leadership at American museums, in collaboration with the Ford and Walton Family Foundations

Advancing Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion among Museum Leadership

to support the expansion of Latin American language and cultural study programs through the Institute for Global/Local Action and Study

Institute for Global/Local Action and Study

for use by the National Council of Area Studies Associations in support of a project to gather data on faculty staffing needs within fields of area studies

Area Studies Faculty

to support a planning workshop designed to develop a new research agenda in the field of 20th-century American industrial history

American Industrial History Workshop 

for its Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security

Science/Arms Control/Security

to support the completion of two public television series on the last half-century of African American history and on the great civilizations of Africa from its ancient history to the late 19th century

African American History Projects

to support research on the economic and social impact and value of museums

Economic and Social Value of Museums

for expansion of its public information program

Science 80

to support a study on the future of academic freedom and a public relations campaign to strengthen support for higher education

The Defense of Academic Freedom: A Center and a Campaign

Effort to increase membership

toward support of its National Committee for Russian Language Study

Russian Language Study

toward cost of its Western Hemisphere Cooperation activities in support of lnterciencia

Interciencia

to support the development and dissemination of a code of best practices for the application of the copyright principle of fair use in art and art history

Best Practices for Fair Use - Art and Art History

to support planning for a cross-institutional project that emphasizes the histories and commemorative landscapes of Black Boston, digital scholarship, civic engagement, and community-library-university partnerships

Reckonings: A Local History Platform for the Community-Archivist

to support increased participation by humanists in established academic leadership programs with strong alumni networks

Academic Leadership Programming for Humanists

to support the development of guidelines for the evaluation of digital scholarship in the context of tenure and promotion in the fields of art and architectural history

Digital Scholarship Guidelines for Promotion and Tenure in Art and Architectural History

to support the Legacy Project: Oral Histories of Minority Foreign Service and Foreign Service Officers, the first compilation of oral histories about the roles and contributions of minorities in the formulation, execution, and articulation of US foreign policy

Oral History - Compilation

to support community fellow participants; stipends for faculty; the creation of a digital archive, art exhibit, and podcast; and subgrants to three community organizations for historic preservation projects

Historic African American Communities In Art, Literature, and History

to provide unsold copies of Science 86 to schools

Science 86

toward support of Project 2061, a nationwide program aimed at improving the scientific literacy of students in grades K-12

Project 2061

toward support of "Project 2061," a nationwide program aimed at improving the scientific literacy of students in grades K-12

toward costs of a directory of Russian scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are experts on the fonner Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Russian Scholars Directory

to support staff infrastructure and re-granting to other arts spaces and projects

Support for Staff Infrastructure and Regranting

in support of its high-school science-education project

High School Science

Project 2061 - Phase II

to support the development of a model of introductory college-level history courses, a toolkit for implementation, and a resource of consultants that can be scaled nationally and adapted to other disciplines

History Gateways-Strengthening First Year History Courses

for use by the Association of College and Research Libraries toward costs of a project to collect data on libraries in historically black colleges and universities

Association of College and Research Libraries - Black College Library Data

1981-1982 Activities

to broaden its information services to the field

to support the further development of an international research initiative developing new approaches to understanding the global history of the book

Hidden Stories: New Approaches to the Local and Global History of the Book

to support the timely completion of the third NELS longitudinal study by the US Department of Education

Postsecondary Transcript Files

to support a reading and research seminar on African history for scholars from sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Europe

African History Seminar

to assist a delegation of American university presidents to attend the sixth quinquennial general conference of the International Association in Moscow in 1975

International Association Conference

to continue support for the Humanities Action Lab’s nationwide Climates of Inequality and States of Incarceration initiatives, based out of the Rutgers-Newark campus

Public History for a Just Transition:  Pedagogies, Projects, and Partnerships for Rapid Crisis Response and Long-term Reckoning 

to support an enhanced program of annual data collection and analysis on the state of university press publishing

Measuring the State of Scholarly Publishing 

to support planning for the enhancement of a software platform for the archiving and curation of Native American collections

Mukurtu: Platform for Archiving and Curation of Native American Collections

to support community gatherings and culturally-responsive, trauma-informed care for participants in the Road to Healing oral history project

Healing-Centered Culturally-Informed Support for Oral History Project

to continue support of the Local Poets Laureate Fellowship

Local Poets Laureate Fellowship 

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 