Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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 research on how liberal arts colleges address global preparation and democratic engagement for their students

International Education

for use by the A CLS to plan a program of assistance to librarians in historically black colleges and universities

Association of College and Research Libraries - Black Colleges

to support a coalition of academic, business, and civic leaders committed to strengthening public awareness of the connection between liberal education and America’s global competitiveness

Liberal Education and America's Promise

towards the costs of the AAU/ARL Research Libraries Project

Association of American Universities/American Research Libraries Project

to support a study of capstone academic experiences

Signature Work:  Mounting and Sustaining Successful College Capstone Programs

to support the AAU/ARL Research Libraries Project

to support the Bringing Theory to Practice project’s focus on student well-being, civic engagement, preparation for meaningful work, and democratic citizenship

Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP): The PLACE Collaboratory: Partnerships for Listening and Action by Communities and Educators

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 support an evaluation of the links among education, student mental health, and civic development

Bringing Theory to Practice

to support multi-institutional curricular and pedagogical collaboration

Integrative Liberal Learning

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

Educational Quality Program

toward transitional costs in the restructuring of the Association

One-Time Transitional Costs and Expansion of Washington-Based Staff

to support college and university trustees' understanding of the challenges facing American higher education

Guardians Initiative

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

Local Government Records

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

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

Local Gov't Records

for the History of American Research Universities Project

American Research Universities

towards costs of a project to assess the consequences for colleges and universities of ending mandatory faculty retirement

Faculty Retirement Study

to support teaching collaboration between liberal arts colleges and research universities

Collaboration Between ACS and Research Universities

to support the development of a secure,Web-based, purchasing system

Web-based Purchasing System  

to support a conference on library collaboration for librarians from member institutions

Library Collaboration Conference

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

Economic and Social Value of Museums

toward costs of the Coalition for the Advancement of Foreign Languages and International Studies

Coalition for the Advancement of Foreign Languages and International Studies

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

toward costs of a symposium on academic governance

Academic Governance

for a study of major problems facing research universities in the decade ahead

Study of Research University Problems

Contribution

Unrestricted Contribution

General Support

to continue its academic consulting and advisory services for member colleges and universities

Consulting - Advisory Services

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

to support a progressive reconceptualization of the organization’s extensive suite of faculty and administrative leadership programs and trainings that place equity and justice at their center and ensure a focus on underrepresented faculty

Revitalizing Leadership Development for Independent Colleges and Universities

to support the libraries at private, historically black colleges and universities

JSTOR for Texas-Based Historically Black Colleges and Universities

to enable the Association to co-sponsor a national commission to analyze the processes by which the federal government supports academic research

National Commission to Analyze Academic Research Support by Federal Government

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

Measuring the State of Scholarly Publishing 

Artists as Catalysts

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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

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

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" 