Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

for faculty and curriculum renewal in the arts and sciences

Appalachian College Program

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

General Education Curriculum

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 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

toward expenses of retaining a professional meteorologist to assist in developing a program of teaching and research in forest meteorology

Forest Hydrology

to support innovations in online journal publishing

EditMe Academic Publishing Platform

to support a humanities-centered voting rights and civic engagement initiative

Convening Series: Roots and Shadows - Mining History to Counter Political Violence and Threats to Election Integrity in Appalachia

to support a study investigating the feasibility of a consortium of small scholarly societies in the humanities

Many Voices: Planning for a Consortium of Small Scholarly Societies

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

Co-op Program for Six Virginia Colleges

toward costs of the Virginia Historical Inventory project

Virginia Historical Inventory Project

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

College and Beyond

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

College of Science in Society

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

Virginia Forage Research Station

as permanent endowment, to be matched two-to-one within four years, to support the College of Film and the Moving Image

College of Film and the Moving Image

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]

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 a program of curricular renewal

Ohio Wesleyan University Connection

to assist the scholarly publication program of Wesleyan University Press

University Press Program

to support an environmental studies program

College of the Environment

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

in suppon of a series of East-West Seminars to promote intellectual exchange between scholars from Eastern Europe and the West

East-West Seminars

West European Program

toward costs of programs designed to enhance management skills in West Bohemia

EEP - Management Training

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

Monuments across Appalachian Virginia

to support Transatlantic Ties, a project providing access to and educational programs based on the Sussex Declaration and other American archives housed in the West Sussex Record Office

Transatlantic Ties Project

to support the evaluation of software needed by the West Semitic Research Project to create an online database of ancient Near Eastern inscriptions

West Semitic Research Project [InscriptiFact]

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

Guided Pathways to Arts and Humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Liberal Arts Colleges

to strengthen the relationship between academic and residential programs

The Academic Community at Liberal Arts Colleges

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

Creative Campus Arts Components

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

Electronic Imprint III

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

Electronic Imprint Part IV [Rotunda]

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

Exhibitions/Publications

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

Virtual Jamestown

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

Electronic Publishing Services 

to sustain a capacity for advanced research and training on Western Europe

West European Studies

to support the production of a symposium and essay volume featuring scholars who engage with literature on memorialization and consider how memory informs the histories of the South and West

Contested Commemorations—Public Memory in the South and West

for use by the CONRAD program for a small grants program to encourage research collaboration between reproductive biology centers in the United States and similar centers in developing countries; for its Consortium for Industrial Collaboration in Contraceptive Research;and for pilot projects in contraceptive development

Twinning Small Grants & Contraceptive Research and Development [CICCR] [Eastern Virginia Medical School]

to support capacity, partnerships, and construction of artist studios and a residency guest house

Transforming Arts and Heritage Management and Education in West Africa

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" 