Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to develop fresh combinations in teaching and learning to strengthen the arts and sciences

Fresh Combinations

to support a program offering retraining opportunities for tenured faculty members

Faculty Retraining

Faculty Support

Postdoctoral Fellowships

toward costs of improving foreign language instruction and achieving greater cost-effectiveness

Educational Effectiveness

bridging funds to help meet humanities faculty needs in the 1980's

1980s Fund

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

New President

to support postdoctoral fellowship programs

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

in support of planning for information technology demonstration projects

Information Technology Project

Faculty Career Enhancement 

Emeritus Fellowships [Lalonde]

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

to support interdisciplinary faculty development and curricular expansion

Enhancing Interdisciplinary Inquiry

to endow a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

to support the one-year renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Vance Byrd

New Directions Fellowship (Byrd)

to support the cost-effective use of technology in teaching

Educational Effectiveness - Teaching and Technology

to support humanities-centered collaborations with a research university in the digital liberal arts

Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry

to support an initiative to strengthen connections to the local community and demonstrate the value of the humanities to non-academic partners

Midcareer President: Expanding Humanities Outreach

to support renewed participation in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support interdisciplinary teaching, scholarship, and the expansion of Arabic language instruction

Faculty Development and Curricular Expansion

to support the establishment of a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

to support planning for the humanities and social studies divisions

Senior President: Humanities & Social Studies Planning

to support strengthening and expanding the Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence

Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence

to support a curricular, experiential learning, and community engagement initiative that highlights the role of the humanities in addressing societal challenges

The Humanities in Action: Curriculum, Communities, Careers

to support the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 10% Increase

to support a New Directions fellowship for Elizabeth Rodrigues

New Directions Fellowship: Computing for Context, Computing as Context

to support cross-institutional curricular collaboration with Babson College and the Olin College of Engineering

The Three College Collaboration

toward costs of collecting data for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" study

College and Beyond

in support of the initial cost of data collection for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" research project

to support a study of the factors that influence low-income college students’ decisions to leave school

College Dropout Decisions

to support the Pathways to College program

Pathways to College Program

toward costs of collecting data for the Foundation’s "College and Beyond" study

in support of its High School-College Cooperative Learning Program

High School-College Program

to support a planning symposium on the future of the liberal arts college library

Liberal Arts College Library

in support of projects in the Trinity College Library

Trinity College Library

to support a Minnesota higher education study of college costs, affordability, and choices

College Costs Study

to support the project "Paying For College: Access, Affordability and Choice in Minnesota Higher Education"

Paying for College

to support the development of a survey of recent tribal college graduates

Tribal College Graduate Survey

to support a final round of the Humanities Edge program, a partnership between Miami Dade College and Florida International University

Community College-University Partnerships

to support the development of a college-wide writing program

Morehouse College Writing Program and Center

to support collaborative electronic library activities; with The College of Wooster, Denison University, Oberlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University

Educational Effectiveness - Collaborative Library Projects [with College of Wooster, Denison University, Oberlin College and Ohio Wesleyan University]

to support the second phase of the College Retirement Project

Mellon College Retirement Project - Phase II

to support a forum on the future of the liberal arts college

Future of the Liberal Arts College 

to support the opening of Smolny College, and the establishment of an international summer/winter term in human rights in Southern Africa

Foreign Study [Smolny College & IHRE]

to support activities that assist humanities students to complete their degrees at Miami Dade College, and transfer to Florida International University, and strengthen faculty and staff collaborations between the institutions

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" 