Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the transfer of humanities students from The Community College of Baltimore County to Johns Hopkins University, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

Community College-University Partnerships

to continue support for Humanities for All, a partnership program with Johns Hopkins University that promotes the transfer of community college students to four-year institutions and innovative teaching practices in the humanities

Humanities for Today

to support the transfer of humanities students from The Community College of Baltimore County to Johns Hopkins, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

to continue support for Humanities for All, a partnership program with the Community College of Baltimore County that promotes the transfer of community college students to four-year institutions and innovative teaching practices in the humanities

to establish a Baltimore-based consortium dedicated to mentoring diverse cohorts of undergraduate students in the science associated with art conservation

Baltimore SCIART Fellowship

to provide a final round of support for a Baltimore-based consortium dedicated to mentoring diverse cohorts of undergraduate students in the science associated with art conservation

to support a Baltimore-based consortium dedicated to mentoring diverse cohorts of undergraduate students in the heritage science and art conservation

Baltimore SCIART Fellowship Phase II

to support collaboration with community partners to develop a national model for engaging urban communities in public humanities teaching and research

Strengthening UMBC's Public Humanities Infrastructure: The Baltimore Field School

cooperative program with Princeton University to improve the teaching of liberal studies in community colleges

Liberal Studies Teaching in Community Colleges

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 the integration of diversity and inclusion into the humanities curriculum, faculty pedagogy, and scholarship

The Inclusion Imperative

to support the integration of international and global studies programs

Global Education Across the Curriculum, the College, and the Community

to sustain the Community Colleges Project to strengthen humanities teaching in the seven community colleges of the City University and in others nearby

Community College Project

to support the Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies

Program Support

to support rethinking Asian American issues on campus in a global, diasporic, and collaborative framework through community-engaged, public-facing scholarship and teaching through the Global Asias Initiative

Global Asias Initiative: Reframing Asian American Studies and Asian Studies at UMBC 

to support capacity building and programs that seed the creative community in Baltimore

Black Creative Empowerment in Baltimore

in support of programs on immigrant education

Immigrant Education

toward costs of planning programs in immigrant education

to strengthen the teaching of humanities in community colleges, principally in the CUNY system

in support of its Community Colleges Project

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

Liberal Arts Studies

to support the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

to continue support for the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

to support the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

to continue support for the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

to continue support for the streamlining of humanities transfer processes and collaboration between humanities faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College

Community College-University Partnerships - Phase II

to support a collaboration with Lorain County Community College to establish connected Food Studies and racial justice curricula and partnerships with local organizations

Cultivating Community in the Great Lakes Region: Growing Food and Justice through the Engaged Humanities

to support curricular and research initiatives that preserve local history, integrate social and racial justice work into artistic practice and teaching, and explore questions of special interest to community members

New College and the Cross-College Alliance in the Community

to support a study focusing on specific factors that might influence the transfer of community college students with interests in the humanities

Community College Students Majoring in the Humanities: Transfer and Attainment of Bachelor's Degrees

to support community-engaged programs in the humanities that encourage equitable collaborations with residents and organizations in the City of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, and the Hudson Valley

Community-Engaged Intensives in the Humanities

to support the activities of the memory lab at King County Library System

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: King County Library System

to support planning and implementation of the Baltimore-Washington Musical Pathways Initiative

Baltimore-Washington Musical Pathways Initiative

to support the streamlining of humanities transfers and collaboration between humanities faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College

The Humanities Collaborative 

to support organizational capacity, design and development, community engagement and programming for the Black Baltimore Digital Database

Black Baltimore Digital Database

to continue support for the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the university, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

for the Community College Mid-Career Fellowship Program

Community College Mid-Career Fellowship Program

to conclude support for a program of research fellowships for community college faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Community College Faculty Fellowship Program

to strengthen the liberal arts in six large urban community college districts

Liberal Arts Support

to continue support for a program of research fellowships for community college faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Community College Faculty Fellowships - Phase II

to support a program of study for community college faculty members who teach in the humanities

Community College Faculty

to support a program of research fellowships for community college faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Research Fellowships

to support collaborations with humanities faculty at Cuyahoga Community College, and an initiative that would facilitate transfer of community college students to the university's four-year degree programs

Community College Pipeline Initiative

to support the development and launch of the Baltimore Youth Documentary and Film Arts Program

Baltimore Youth Film Program

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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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" 