Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a portfolio program focused on students' academic development

Strengthening the Manhattanville Portfolio Tradition

Faculty Support

to help the faculty and administration encourage women's growing career aspirations

Women's Education and Career Program

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

to continue programming that supports high school-to-college transitions, transfers from two- to four-year institutions, and college retention for Native American students

Native Pathways to College Phase III

to continue support for graduate degree completion fellowships for Tribal College and University faculty

Tribal College Faculty Development Initiative

to continue support for activities that would assist humanities students in completing their degrees at Miami Dade College and transferring to Florida International University, and strengthen faculty and staff collaborations between the institutions

to support comprehensive administrative and operational collaboration with Haverford College

Administrative & Operational Collaboration with Haverford College

to support a six-month data collection and analysis project concerning the costs of athletic expenditures in New England Small College Athletic Conference programs

New England Small College Athletic Conference

to support the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

to continue support for the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

to support the transfer of humanities students from The Community College of Baltimore County to Johns Hopkins University, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

to support the continuation of the Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship Program for tribal college faculty

Tribal College Faculty Career Enhanacement Program

to support the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

to continue support for the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

to continue support for Humanities for All, a partnership program with Johns Hopkins University that promotes the transfer of community college students to four-year institutions and innovative teaching practices in the humanities

to support scholarships for students in the Honors College program

Honors College

for use by the Appalachian College Association to provide professional opportunities for faculty members and to promote collaborative research between faculty members and students

Appalachian College Association - Faculty Scholars Program

to continue to support general operations for the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

General Operating Support: Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

toward costs of providing data about college freshmen from 1976 and 1989 for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" project

to continue support for the streamlining of humanities transfer processes and collaboration between humanities faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College

Community College-University Partnerships - Phase II

to support the creation and operation of a secure Web-based interface for receiving and storing data files from institutions participating in the College Sports Project

College Sports Project - Northwestern Center for Data Collection

for use by the Smith College Museum of Art to strengthen the educational role of its collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

to support a comprehensive, network-wide assessment of the United Negro College Fund’s 39 member institutions

United Negro College Fund Network Assessment Initiative

to enhance the educational role of the museum's collections and programs, within a selective program to assist college and university art museums

to support establishment of the College Choice Program

College Choice Program

support of its seminar program for college presidents and other college officers

Seminars for College Presidents

to strengthen the academic role of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum’s collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Spendable

matching grant toward costs of curricular development and library automation at the American College ofThessaloniki

Curriculum Development and Library Automation for the American College of Thessaloniki

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

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" 