Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

Faculty Support

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

Women's Education and Career Program

Seeding Residencies: Baldwin for the Arts

to support the Mary Patterson McPherson Endowed Fund for Innovation in the Humanities

Mary Patterson McPherson Endowed Fund for Innovation in the Humanities

to support discretionary initiatives at the early stage of a liberal arts college president’s career

New President

to support capacity for artist-founded residency serving the creative global majority

Reimagined Residency

to support an initiative promoting engaged citizenship in the humanistic disciplines

Revitalizing William and Mary's Commitment to Citizen Scholars

to support further development of the Mary Miss archives, and training in the methods of the City as Living Laboratory

CALL Platform Project - Phase II

to support ARTstor participation with Hampden-Sydney, Lynchburg, Mary Baldwin, and Randolph Macon Colleges, and the Averett, Eastern Mennonite, and Shenandoah Universities

ARTstor Acquisition  

to support teaching, scholarship, and community engagement around the legacies of slavery, freedom, segregation, racism, and reconciliation in the college’s history

Sharing Authority to Remember and Re-interpret the Past

to endow The William G. Bowen Distinguished Professorship and The William G. and Mary Ellen Bowen Research Scholarships

The William G. Bowen Distinguished Professorship and The William G. and Mary Ellen Bowen Research Scholarships

matching endowment for a Fund for Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the arts and sciences

Appalachian College Program

to strengthen curricular offerings and to assist faculty development

for use in support of seminars in literature and history for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

Dissertation Seminars

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies

to support environmental studies and the use of geographic information systems

to support curricular revision and enhancement

Undergraduate Research

to support the environmental studies program

to support planning initiatives for a program of curricular reform

Curriculum Planning

New President - Discretionary Fund

to support the expansion of undergraduate research opportunities for students from first-generation, disadvantaged, and underrepresented minority backgrounds

Liberal Education and Inclusive Excellence

to support a program for undergraduate research in global studies

Undergraduate Research in Global Studies

to support the implementation of a new liberal arts curriculum

Liberal Arts General Education Curriculum Implementation

endowment for the Institute of Early American History and Culture

Institute of Early American History and Culture

to establish an endowment in support of a new program of Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowships, in honor of W. Taylor Reveley, III on the occasion of his retirement from the Chairmanship of the Board of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

W. Taylor Reveley, III Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowships

for the Institute of Early American History and Culture

to support curricular and faculty renewal

Bridged Retirements: A Strategy for Perpetual Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the Humanities

to support organizational capacity, a planning and feasibility study, and related public cultural heritage programming

The Mary & Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community

to support the Marymount Manhattan Experience program

Mentoring Program

toward costs of humanities summer institutes for fine-arts teachers in Maryland high schools

Summer Institutes

to support a research incubator for The 1856 Project, an initiative dedicated to investigating the legacy of slavery at the University of Maryland and engaging in reparative archives work

The 1856 Project

to support initiatives to diversify academic leadership, in partnership with Morgan State University and the University of Maryland at College Park

Breaking the M.O.L.D. (Maryland Opportunities for Leadership Development) for Arts and Humanities Faculty

to support revitalization of the college’s general education curriculum

Revitalization of the General Education Curriculum

to support the new president’s plan to identify the college’s major educational assets and begin a program of faculty development

Discretionary Support

to support the integration of civic engagement and service learning opportunities into the humanities curriculum

Civic Learning & Engagement

to support the strengthening of students’ academic experiences outside the classroom

to continue to support prison education programs at the Bedford Hills and Taconic Correctional Facilities for Women

Bedford/Taconic Prison Programs

to support prison education programs at the Bedford Hills and Taconic Correctional Facilities for Women

Prison Education (Bedford/Taconic)

to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Current Grantee Prison Education Programs

New Presidents

to develop a case study to present at the 2001 Best Practices Seminar of the Global Partners Project

Global Partners

to support expansion of an international program and the strengthening of a democracy studies minor

Foreign Study

to support the design of new models of foreign study for undergraduate students

to support new curricular initiatives for undergraduate students

SlackWater Center

to support international student exchange

to support the planning of a center for inclusive teaching and learning that addresses the needs of students with learning disabilities

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

General Support

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" 