Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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 the surveying and cataloging of materials in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History

Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

to support initiatives to strengthen the College’s connections with neighboring public schools

New President

matching endowment for use by its museum to strengthen the educational role of collections and programs

College Art Museum Endowment Challenge Phase I: Endowment

to assist the College to build a new research capability through a multidisciplinary project on "Women and Social Change"

Women and Social Change

toward cost of construction of a new building to provide facilities for the Department of Art and the Museum of the College

Construction - Fine Arts Center

to develop a pilot program for future exchange initiatives between American liberal arts colleges and the University of Cape Town and other South African universities, in collaboration with Wellesley College

Exchange Initiatives 

for use by its art museum to enhance the educational role of the collections and programs

to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the Museum's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Endowment

Emeritus Fellowships 

to support the integration of classroom and experiential learning

Integrating Classroom and Experiential Learning

to support an initiative to reimagine the writing curriculum

Writing and Public Discourse

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

Fresh Combinations

to endow "The Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities"

Humanities Professorship

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular or administrative consolidation

Consolidation Program

in support of four postdoctoral fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support appointments of junior or intermediate faculty members in humanities or social sciences in advance of key retirements

2000 Funds

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

Educational Effectiveness

to improve educational effectiveness and to gain financial efficiencies

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

1980s Fund

Foreign Study 

to support postdoctoral fellowship programs

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

Faculty Career Enhancement 

New Presidents Grant

Emeritus Fellowships [Vaget]

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

Emeritus Fellowships [Donfried]

to support the first-year program, advanced interdisciplinary seminars, and faculty advising

Mapping the Curriculum

to support a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

to support faculty career enhancement programs

to support membership in the Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions program

Emeriti Incentive Award 

to support the presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

to support restructuring and transition activities in the office of the president

Restructuring and Transition Activities

to expand the multidisciplinary research project "Women and Social Change"

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

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Brent Durbin

New Directions Fellowship (Durbin)

New Directions Fellowship (White)

New Directions Fellowship (Leibsohn)

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support an initiative to renew and diversify the faculty

Bridging to Diversify the Humanities

to support a planning grant for campus art museum and library collaboration

Campus Library and Museum Collaboration

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

to support costs associated with the planning phase for a summer institute in museum studies

Summer Institute in Museum Studies

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential life

Academic Community - Residential & Student Services

to support campus library and museum collaboration

Campus Library and Museum Collaboration Implementation

to support ongoing scholarly activities by a former New Directions Fellowship recipient

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Leibsohn)

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" 