Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a program of curricular renewal

Ohio Wesleyan University Connection

to assist the scholarly publication program of Wesleyan University Press

University Press Program

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of Wesleyan University Press

to support collaborative electronic library activities; with The College of Wooster, Denison University, Oberlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University

Educational Effectiveness - Collaborative Library Projects [with College of Wooster, Denison University, Oberlin College and Ohio Wesleyan University]

to enable the Connecticut-Trinity-Wesleyan Consortium to complete a language software database begun by the International Association for Learning Laboratories

Language Software Database - Connecticut-Trinity-Wesleyan Consortium

to support arts components of the Creative Campus Initiative administered by Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts

Creative Campus Arts Components

to support an endowment for a program designed to engage students and faculty in discussion of timely ethical, political, and social issues

Senior President

to continue support for the Center for Prison Education

Center for Prison Education

to support the Center for Prison Education

to support an interdisciplinary leadership training initiative that will use the arts to develop antiracism practices

Antiracism Arts Initiative (AAI)

to support the operations of the university's Center for the Humanities

Center for Humanities

to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Current Grantee Prison Education Program

to provide additional opportunities for the appointment of young non-tenured post-doctoral scholars in the humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowships

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

Fresh Combinations

to support a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research

to support appointments of junior or intermediate faculty members in humanities or social sciences in advance of key retirements

2000 Funds

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies

to support a postdoctoral fellowship program

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular or administrative consolidation

Consolidation Program

to support the environmental studies program

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

1980s Fund

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

in support of the design of digital application and selection programs

Paperless Application Project

toward costs of collecting data for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" study

College and Beyond

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Carceral Connecticut Project

to support the development of a Middle Eastern Studies program

Middle Eastern Studies

Emeritus Fellowships [Buel]

to support an endowment for a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

Faculty Career Enhancement 

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

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Courtney Fullilove

New Directions Fellowship (Fullilove)

to support artist residencies that will deepen engagement with the arts on campus and expand their impact in the community

Senior President: Artist Residencies

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Kathleen Birney

New Directions Fellowship (Birney)

to support an environmental studies program

College of the Environment

to support a presidential discretionary fund

New President - Discretionary Fund

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential life

Academic Community - Student Transition

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Liberal Arts Colleges

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

to provide interim support for its College of Science in Society Program

College of Science in Society

to support inclusive and innovative pedagogy

Pedagogical Innovation and Lifelong Learning

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Renewal

to support the cost-effective use of technology  in foreign language teaching; in collaboration with Connecticut and Trinity Colleges

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology 

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

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Renewal

to support a Sawyer Seminar for Liberal Arts Colleges, entitled "War"

Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures

to support the renewal of an undergraduate fellowship program

2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to strengthen the relationship between academic and residential programs

The Academic Community at Liberal Arts Colleges

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" 