Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support initiatives that address campus climate, equity, and inclusion.

Equity and Inclusion at St. Olaf

to support development of an interdisciplinary, international curriculum and engaged student learning

Cross-College Collaboration 

New President - Strategic Planning

to support a program designed to increase undergraduate women students' understanding of alternative career opportunities

Women's Undergraduate Program

Faculty Support

to support a program of faculty and curricular development

Faculty Development

to improve educational effectiveness and gain financial efficiencies through the use of electronic resources

Educational Effectiveness

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

Fresh Combinations

to support faculty bridge appointments in anticipation of retirements

Faculty Retirement

for use by the University Archives in developing appraisal guidelines for scientific and technological materials

Hewlett-Mellon Program

Faculty Bridge Appointments

to support membership in the Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions program

Emeriti Incentive Award 

to support an endowment for scholarly programs at the Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library

Libraries and Kierkegaard

to support curricular and pedagogical innovation focused on diversity and inclusion

To Include is to Excel

to support a framework to expand the digital humanities into the curriculum

Digital Humanities on the Hill

to support the establishment of the Institute for Freedom and Community

The Institute for Freedom and Community

to support cross-institutional administrative and academic collaboration with St. Olaf College

Broadening the Bridge

to support a faculty development project focused on the St. John’s mathematics curriculum, in collaboration with St. John’s College, Santa Fe, and St.Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, California)

Faculty Career Enhancement 

to support Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges merging their library catalogs as a first step towards a full library collaboration

Libraries 

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

College Costs Study

to support three college committees appointed to review issues of governance

Governance Issues

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 assist in the restoration of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, England

St. Paul's Cathedral

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

College and Beyond

to support a study of the role race and ethnic inequality play in students’ transitions from high school to college and of the impact of the Washington State Initiative 200 ballot referendum on minority college attendance

Minority Students' College Decisions

to increase transfer rates of Ilisagvik College students to four-year degree programs by implementing articulation agreements between Ilisagvik and four-year Alaskan, Northwest, and other tribal colleges/universities

Supporting Student Success through Increased College Readiness and the Facilitation of Articulation Agreements

to support a study of the role of race and ethnicity in students’ transition from high school to college and the effect of a Washington State referendum on college attendance by minorities

Minority Students' College Decisions - Hirschman

to support research on factors affecting minority high school students’ decisions to attend college and on the effects of recent rulings barring the use of race in college admissions decisions

Minority Students' College Decisions - Kain

Minority Students' College Decisions - Allen

in support of a training program for undergraduate liberal arts college students

Liberal Arts College Training

to support strategic and curricular planning for Eugene Lang College

Eugene Lang College Strategic Plan

to support transfer students in the humanities who are transitioning from Perimeter College to Georgia State University

Community College-University Partnerships

to support the 2023 Tribal College Librarians Institute

Tribal College Librarians Institute

to support a project exploring the effects of digital technology on language and its relation to the college's educational model

The Effects of Digital Technology on Language and its Relation to the College's Educational Model

to support research on factors affecting Texas high school students decisions to attend college and the effects of recent rulings barring the use of race in college admissions

Minority Students' College Decisions - Kain - Part II

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

College Dropout Decisions

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

to enable it to reestablish its counseling and college referral service

Counseling and College Referral Services

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

The Three College Collaboration

to support the development of a large-scale virtual reality reconstruction of a medieval monastery as specified by the architectural plan of St. Gall

St. Gall Virtual Reality Model

to support planning and piloting of an international studies program

Spelman College International Studies Program

to support a study to test the feasibility of developing a large-scale virtual reality model of a medieval monastery as specified in the St. Gall architectural plan

St. Gall Virtual Reality Model 

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

for a study of the effects of attending community colleges on students' educational and economic attainment

Community College Study  

to support the Pathways to College program

Pathways to College Program

to support the planning of a college-in-prison network in New York

New York Statewide College-in-Prison Network

to support the planning of a study of the impact of Appalachian College Association college graduates on their region

Planning Study

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" 