Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

for institutional planning and strengthening university libraries

Institutional Planning - Library

to support the preservation of oral history in the Kwa-Zulu Natal region of the South African Indian (South Asian) minority

Voices of Resistance Project 

Library Collection

to develop and distribute an Open Source Web application to enable institutions of higher learning to access information resources

University Portal Initiative

to support the curation and stewardship of poetry archives related to 20th-century poet-activists of color and a digital publishing and poet-in-residence project that draws on these collections

Curation and Stewardship of Poetry Archives

to develop leadership skills of women in administrative positions at the University of Cape Town and other South African universities

Higher Education Resources Services

toward the development of a conservator training program to be conducted by the University and the Winterthur Museum

Conservation Training Program

toward support of the Master of Science Program in the Conservation of Artistic and Historic Objects conducted by the University and the Winterthur Museum

Conservator Training Program

for the Master of Science Program in the Conservation of Artistic and Historic Objects conducted by the University and the Winterthur Museum

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

Urban Universities Program

to support the continuation of the annual Association of North American Graduate Programs in the Conservation of Cultural Property student conference

Association of North American Graduate Programs in the Conservation of Cultural Property (ANAGPIC)

to support the academic program in collections conservation at the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage in Erbil, Iraq

Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage

to support the development of the Paul Laurence Dunbar Project

Paul Laurence Dunbar Project

toward costs of a workshop on photograph conservation, held in conjunction with New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Photograph Conservation - Workshop

to support the pilot phase of the university's curatorial track PhD program in the department of art history

Curatorial Track PhD Program

matching endowment to support advanced conservation internships in the University's Art Conservation Program

Winterthur-Art Conservation Interns

to support graduate-student fellowships, and to help initiate the University's PhD program in Art Conservation Research

Art Conservation - PhD Program

toward costs of a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research

partial support of the costs of administrative reorganization and a new research emphasis at the Winterthur Program in the Conservation of Artistic and Historic Objects

Winterthur Program

for a study of the land-use history of major ecological research sites

History/Ecology Program

to support the Department of Women & Gender Studies

Program Support

to support the publication of digital exhibits based on case files from the archives of Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo, a human rights organization in Guatemala

Digitizing the Disappeared

in support of training in the field of photograph conservation

Collaborative Workshops Photograph Conservation - Phase I

to support the development and implementation of the Rocky Mountain Regional Conservation Center's program of art and historic conservation

Rocky Mountain Regional Conservation Center

matching endowment in support of fellowships in its conservation training program

Conservation Fellowships Endowment

to support the first phase of hurricane recovery efforts by the Art Conservation Department

Hurricane Katrina Response

to support the next phase of the Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Arab Image Foundation

Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative

in support of activities aimed at increasing minority participation in international affairs

Minority Representation - International Affairs

in support of activities designed to increase minority participation in international affairs

for use by its Department of Art Conservation for student stipends

Art Conservation - Student Stipends

to establish a permanent endowment in support of graduate conservation fellowships and to facilitate curriculum development

to support research on the history of the Higher Education Resources Service program

to support museum collection recovery and response efforts on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

to support public and scholarly engagement with collections and exhibits on the political conventions of black Americans during the nineteenth century

Colored Conventions Project

to support the continuation of pilot programs in graduate-level training in the conservation of library and special collections materials

Book and Paper Conservation Training Program - Phase II

to support the professional development needs of women in leadership positions in universities and technikons in South Africa

Higher Education Resources Services 

to support training in the field of photograph conservation

Collaborative Workshops Photograph Conservation - Phase II

to support workshops in photograph conservation in the Middle East, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Arab Image Foundation

to support the preservation of significant collections held by historically black colleges and universities

HBCU Photograph Preservation - Phase I

to support a workshop in New York City on the technology and preservation of digital print media

Photograph Conservation - Digital Media Workshop

toward costs of a library partnership with the University of Tartu in Estonia

University of Tartu Library 

to support graduate student fellowships and related instructional costs in the field of book and paper conservation

Book and Paper Conservation Training Program

to strengthen the liberal arts curriculum and faculty in its College of Arts and Sciences

Curriculum and Faculty

to complete Foundation support for the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

Plants Initiative

to extend the capabilities of its Library in anticipation of its role in the development of an international bibliographic network

Catalogue Retrieval Project

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of Africa, Latin America, and other areas

Latin American Plants Initiative

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on African plants

African Plants Initiative

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on Latin American plants

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" 