Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support revision of the general education program

General Education Program

to support efforts to strengthen the College’s liberal arts program

New President - Support

to support faculty career enhancement programs

Faculty Career Enhancement

Schewe Library Information Commons

to support a faculty training program in the digital humanities

Digital Tools for the Liberal Arts

to support research on life satisfaction using the College and Beyond database

College and Beyond 

in support of a research project on life satisfaction using the "College and Beyond" database

College and Beyond

to support the planning and implementation of a statewide initiative that uses the arts and humanities to bring forward the voices of those directly impacted by the criminal legal system

Envisioning Justice: Illinois

toward costs of a study of the well-being and satisfaction of students in the "College and Beyond" database

to support the promotion of higher education in prison programs and partnerships in Southern Illinois

Illinois Coalition for Higher Education in Prison: Downstate Expansion of HEP Programs

to assist the scholarly publication program of the University of Illinois Press

University Press Program

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of The University of Illinois Press

to support a planning grant to conduct the necessary groundwork to establish Interseminars in the Humanities and Arts at Illinois.

Interseminars in the Humanities and the Arts

to support a research and capacity-development project between the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Neoliberalism, Gender and Curriculum in Transformation

to assist presidents of liberal arts and historically black colleges to meet the goals they have set for their respective institutions

Senior Presidential Leadership

to support institutes on governance for presidents of public colleges and universities

Public University Governance 

New President

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

to support stipends for faculty, visiting artists, and scholars to teach in the May term

to support a comprehensive program of curricular and pedagogical reform

Engaging Tomorrow’s Students

for a study of the relationship between commercial and nonprofit literary publishing

Literary Publishing Study

to support faculty career enhancement and a review of the governance structures of the institution

Envisioning Justice

to continue support for Envisioning Justice

to support curricular development in the humanities

Re-Centering the Humanities

to support writing and information literacy across the curriculum

Writing and Information Literacy

to support a restructuring of the writing program

Writing-Across-the-Curriculum

to support Creative States Coalition staff capacity and convenings for arts advocacy organizations across the United States

Creative States Coalition 

to support a series of initiatives that use the arts and humanities to engage local communities in understanding the causes of over-incarceration, imagining solutions, and connecting to policy makers

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

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

to support an ecological research and training program led by a junior faculty scientist

Ecosystems Research and Training - Junior Faculty - Baer

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

to strengthen its humanities faculty and curriculum

Humanities Teaching/Curriculum

for its Chicago Area Health Careers Program

Chicago Health Careers

in support of its High School-College Cooperative Learning Program

High School-College Program

to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support)

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 dissertation completion fellowships for three national cohorts of six students each in Latino Studies centers at four universities

IUPLR Latino Studies

to support a program of undergraduate research, pedagogical experimentation, and curricular innovation in the humanities

Engaged Humanities Initiatives

to support the Latin American and Latino Studies Department

Program Support

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Geographies of Justice"

Sawyer Seminar: "Geographies of Justice"

to support the integration of humanities-based critical race analysis into undergraduate curricula, faculty scholarship, and collaborative university-community projects

US Racialization and the Law

to support development of an online portal for historical collections related to Chicago

Chicago Collections Consortium: Portal Implementation

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

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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" 