Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to endow a professorship in theology at its School of Theology

Theology Professorship

Faculty Support

matching endowment for a Fund for Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the arts and sciences

Black Colleges Program

to strengthen faculty and curricula in the arts and humanities

to support the strengthening of academic programs

Institution Building - Teaching and Technology

toward purchase of equipment and the repair and modemization of facilities at the Virginia Forage Research Station

Virginia Forage Research Station

toward costs of the Virginia Historical Inventory project

Virginia Historical Inventory Project

to support the software license needed for the Slovak union catalog

Slovak Union Catalog

toward costs of a computer produced microfilm catalog for the University, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and the New School for Social Research

NYU/New School/Cooper Union - Library Consolidation

toward costs of translation into English of approximately 20 papers on union catalogue issues

EEP - Polish Union Catalogue

toward costs of a workshop on the subject of a national union library catalogue

National Union Catalogue - Workshop

to create a prototype union catalog for art images

Union Catalogue for Art Images 

to support continued development of a prototype union catalog for art images

Union Catalogue for Art Images

toward costs of creating a Polish national union catalogue

Eastern European Program - Polish Union Catalog

to support the University of Virginia Press in studying the feasibility of offering electronic publishing services to other university presses

Electronic Publishing Services 

to continue support for four-year pathways in arts and humanities between Virginia Commonwealth University and Brightpoint and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Colleges in order to accelerate baccalaureate degree completion and strengthen faculty collaborations between the institutions

Pathways Program - Phase II

to support the participation of Polish librarians in the Tallinn Conference on Union Catalogs

EEP - Tallinn Conference on Union Catalogues

to support librarians’ attendance of the Foundationsponsored Tallinn Conference on Union Catalogs

to support further development and implementation of an electronic imprint at the University of Virginia Press

Electronic Imprint III

to support four-year pathways in arts and humanities between Virginia Commonwealth University and John Tyler and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Colleges in order to accelerate baccalaureate degree completion and strengthen faculty collaborations between the institutions

Mapping Pathways to the Arts and Humanities

to support further development and implementation of the electronic imprint at the University of Virginia Press

Electronic Imprint Part IV [Rotunda]

to support research expenses associated with the preparation of a major paper for the Mellon Foundation Conference on Union Catalogs in Tallinn, Estonia

EEP - Mellon Conference on Union Catalogs

toward costs of a trip to universities in the US by the head of the Lódz Consortium, in order to study union catalogue systems

EEP - Study of Union Catalogue Systems [Lodz Consortium]

toward costs of the Czech CASLIN Union Catalogue

EEP - Caslin Union Catalogue

to support a multi-year public history initiative that explores representations of Appalachia's individuals, communities, and histories

Monuments across Appalachian Virginia

to support costs associated with the South African delegation to the Mellon Foundation Conference on Union Catalogs in Tallinn, Estonia

National Union Catalogue - SABINET

to support the first phase of a project to create a new national union catalogue and interlibrary lending network for South Africa

to support librarians’ attendance of the Foundation sponsored Tallinn Conference on Union Catalogs

to create a new national union catalogue and interlibrary lending network for South Africa

National Union Catalogue - SABINET - Phase II

to support the costs associated with the Foundation’s Conference on Union Catalogs to be hosted by the National Library

EEP - Mellon Conference on Union Catalogs 

to support the implementation of the Union Catalog on the Web

Advanced Web Services for Union Catalogues [RedLightGreen]

to support the implementation of a Web-based interface for its union database of library catalogs

for a cooperative faculty and curriculum development program in six Virginia colleges

Co-op Program for Six Virginia Colleges

to support its library in phase II of the University of Virginia’s American Fiction digitization project

Early American Fiction - Phase II

to support a plan for developing a virtual collection of scholarly resources for the study of the history of Jamestown, Virginia

Virtual Jamestown

for use by Eastern Virginia Medical School in support of young investigators in reproductive biology, for collaboration with centers of reproductive biology in developing countries, and to provide seed money for research relevant to contraceptive development

Reproductive Biology [Eastern Virginia Medical School]

for faculty and curriculum development at the Cooper Union School of Art

Faculty/Curriculum Development

toward early planning costs of exhibitions and publications relating to the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Exhibitions/Publications

to support further development and implementation of an electronic imprint at the University Press for the publication of born-digital projects and newly digitized editions from university presses

Digital Imprint II 

to support a strategic planning process instituted by a new president

Strategic Planning

to support a study of postgraduate outcomes of black public university graduates in North Carolina

HBCU Graduate Survey 

to support the establishment of an electronic imprint at the University Press for publication of originally digital scholarly research

Digital Imprint

in support of Sawyer Seminars which treat the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Western Economic Values and European Monetary Union

matching grants to establish a presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

to support the Department of African American Studies

Program Support

to support the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies

to support the Department of African American and African Studies

Program Support 

to support development of an online interactive portal, creative place-based activations, and research on the cultural and historical landscape of Freedom Colonies

Out(sider) Preservation

to support the curricular integration of 100 Days in Appalachia, a digital community-based platform that uses visual storytelling and social documentary to present the missing diverse voices of one of rural America’s most stereotyped regions

100 Days in Appalachia

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" 