Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a tri-college environmental studies program in collaboration with Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges

Environmental Studies 

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

New President

to support the creation of a pilot program designed to develop administrative potential in humanities and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training in higher education leadership

Academic Leadership Development

to support cooperation with Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges in the joint appointment of faculty across the institutions

Fresh Combinations - Faculty [Arabic]

to improve foreign language teaching, in collaboration with Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, through the use of technology

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology 

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

Fresh Combinations

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support a program of faculty and curricular development

Faculty Development

Faculty Support

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

1980s Fund

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to endow a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

to support the development of two new tenure-track positions in interdisciplinary departments and programs

Interdisciplinary Faculty Development

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Language Program

to support the endowment of a new tenure-track position in environmental economics and dedicated funds for course and program development

Environmental Studies Endowment

Faculty Career Enhancement 

to support the president’s efforts to restructure the role of athletics

Restructuring Athletic Program

to support the development of sustainable strategies for Web development and maintenance and to provide a model for collaboration

Technological Innovation and Sustainability

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

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

toward costs of participation in the Journal Storage Project as a test site

JSTOR - Journal Storage Project

to support the expansion of an academic leadership development pilot program with a focus on diversity

Humanities Faculty Leadership Development

to support a program in modern Middle Eastern history and Islamic studies

Modern Middle Eastern History

New Directions Fellowship (Baker)

in support of an undergraduate fellowship program intended to increase the number of minority students enrolled in PhD programs in designated fields of the arts and sciences

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in the arts and sciences

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in fields of the arts and sciences

to support a convening for African American presidents and provosts on opportunities and challenges for Black leadership in higher education

African American Academic Leadership Convening

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Renewal

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

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Baker)

to support strengthening selected aspects of its programs

Senior Presidential Leadership [Arabic Language Courses]

to support the renewal of an undergraduate fellowship program

2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support the renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2009 Renewal

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2006 Renewal

to support the development of software for an open access database of information about writing programs and instruction at institutions of higher education in the US

The Writing Program Administration (WPA) Census Data Project

to support the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - Additional Years Support

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Olivia Sabee

New Directions Fellowship: Ballet in the French Atlantic World

to support cooperation with Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges in the joint appointment of faculty across the institutions

for a collaborative project with Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges to advance educational effectiveness and financial efficiencies

Educational Effectiveness 

to support cooperation with Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges in the joint appointment of faculty across the institutions

to improve educational effectiveness and to gain financial efficiencies through the use of technology in collaboration with Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges

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

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" 