Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support curricular collaboration between the American University of Paris and Eugene Lang College, The New School in developing global literary studies, transnational cultural studies, and comparative urban and immigration studies

Translation, Transnationalism, & Transformation

to support academic services and collaboration between its library and the American Library in Paris

Libraries

to support a meeting of the Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

to support the collaborative work of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

Building Out the American Consortium of Academic Libraries Network

to support the development of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

to support the work and development of the American International Consortium of Libraries (AMICAL)

to support institutional collaboration within the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

to support the operations of the American International Consortium of Libraries (AMICAL) and to fund JSTOR and ARTstor subscriptions for AMICAL member institutions

American International Consortium of Academic Libraries Leadership Initiatives

to support a conference to foster library and information technology collaboration among American universities in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

to support a second conference to foster library and information technology collaboration among American universities in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

to support the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

Building Leadership and Capacity for the Digital Liberal Arts across AMICAL

Library Renewal - AMICAL

to support a planning meeting to help create a consortial library and information technology services group for American universities and colleges abroad

Library and Information Technology Services - AMICAL

to support a program for faculty development

The International Liberal Arts Classroom: Focus on the Humanities

Civic Media Lab: Bridging the Liberal Arts Curriculum and the Contemporary World via Experiential Learning

to increase faculty members’ opportunities for curricular, scholarly, and professional development

Faculty Career Enhancement

to support a civic media lab to integrate civic engagement, project-based pedagogies, digital technologies, social entrepreneurship, and design thinking into the curriculum

Mid-Career President - Civic Media Lab

to support the attendance of faculty members at professional meetings, workshops, and conferences in Europe and the US

Educational Effectiveness

to support expanding pilot programs for student-tutors to provide technology assistance, integrating technology resources with curricular innovation, and administrative start-up costs of the AMICAL consortium

AMICAL Consortium

to support student-centered curricular and pedagogical initiatives in a global liberal arts context 

The Global Liberal Arts: Teaching, Learning, Researching and Preparing for Careers in International Context

to support programs to redesign and strengthen library services

Academic Planning

to support curricular, faculty, and undergraduate programs

Global Citizenship

to support new curricular initiatives for undergraduate students

to support faculty career enhancement programs

New President - Discretionary Fund

to support a program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

to support faculty development and assessment costs

Faculty Development and Assessment Costs

to support student-centered curricular and pedagogical initiatives

Liberal Arts for Global Explorers - Redesigning Teaching and Learning for International Higher Education

to support emergency funding for the resettlement of students and scholars of the American University of Afghanistan

Emergency Resettlement Support

toward costs of a study of the development of the American research university in the twentieth century

The American Research University

to support an enhanced program of annual data collection and analysis on the state of university press publishing

Measuring the State of Scholarly Publishing 

to increase the international distribution of university press publications

International Distribution of University Press Publications

to support the development of virtual walking tours related to sites of Japanese American incarceration in the Pacific Northwest

Beyond the Barbed Wire: Japanese American Stories of the Pacific Northwest

to support the American premiere of The Overwhelming

American Premiere of "The Overwhelming"

to support editorial development of an anthology of African American poetry, and public events that will engage communities around the country with this poetic tradition

Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters

to support capacity building for experiments in solidarity economies for a new American Theater

The Future of American Theater

to support an initiative that would enable 10 to 20 state or city poets laureate to offer programs that engage people with poetry around issues that are important to young people and others in their communities

Public Programming by Poets Laureate in American states and cities

to support transition costs related to a merger with American Music Center, Inc.

Merger with American Music Center

toward costs of a conference, "Perspectives on the Natural Rate of Unemployment," organized by the AEA's Journal  of Economic Perspectives and Georgetown University

Perspectives on the Natural Rate of Unemployment

to support the establishment of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic in Philadelphia

Society of Historians of the Early American Republic

toward expenses of conference on "The Crisis of the University"

"The Crisis of the University"

to support transformative leadership within the American Theater

(Re)Seeding the American Theater

in renewed support of a program to enable the Council to provide publication awards to member presses of the Association of American University Presses

University Presses

to support the translations of 19th-century Latin American literary works

Latin American Translations 

President of the National Council for the Museum of the American Indian

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" 