Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the development of a two-semester course sequence in the history and culture of Central Asia

Curriculum Enhancement

Postdoctoral Fellowships 

New President

to support programs for curriculum enhancement

to support emergency funding for students who have fled Afghanistan

Emergency Support for Afghan Students

to support faculty development to stabilize the new curriculum in the humanities

Faculty Development in the Humanities

to permit a group of American scholars to consult on the development of core humanities programs in several universities in Central Asia

Core Humanities Program in Central Asia

in support of a training program for Central American academic and research librarians

Central American Librarian Training

to support research and training programs in the demography of Central America

Central American Demography

Central American Academic & Research Librarians Training Program

toward costs of participation by the library director of the Universidad Rafael Landívar in the Mortensen Center’s training program for Central American librarians

to support a conference to foster library and information technology collaboration among American universities in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

to support a second conference to foster library and information technology collaboration among American universities in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

to support the publication of scholarly monographs in the humanities, in collaboration with Northwestern University and the University of Pittsburgh

Monographs Initiative - Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies

to support emergency funding for the resettlement of students and scholars of the American University of Afghanistan

Emergency Resettlement Support

in support of its central fellowships programs

Central Fellowship Program

to support an early-career scholars program

Afro-Asian Futures Past

to increase the international distribution of university press publications

International Distribution of University Press Publications

to support curricular collaboration between the American University of Paris and Eugene Lang College, The New School in developing global literary studies, transnational cultural studies, and comparative urban and immigration studies

Translation, Transnationalism, & Transformation

to support the development of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

to support the work and development of the American International Consortium of Libraries (AMICAL)

to support institutional collaboration within the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

to support a meeting of the Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

to support the operations of the American International Consortium of Libraries (AMICAL) and to fund JSTOR and ARTstor subscriptions for AMICAL member institutions

for research and training in the demography of Central America

to support the collaborative work of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

American International Consortium of Academic Libraries Leadership Initiatives

in support of a program of research and training in the demography of Central America

Building Out the American Consortium of Academic Libraries Network

to assist a delegation of American university presidents to attend the sixth quinquennial general conference of the International Association in Moscow in 1975

International Association Conference

toward development costs of the American Children's Television Festival

American Children's TV

for the SAIS Central American and Caribbean Program

School of Advanced International Studies - Central America/Caribbean

in support of the lnstitute's Central Europe Entrepreneurship Program

Central Europe Entrepreneurship Program

to support a planning meeting to help create a consortial library and information technology services group for American universities and colleges abroad

Library and Information Technology Services - AMICAL

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Digital Humanities Asia:  Harnessing Digital Technologies to Advance the Study of East, South, Southeast, and Inner/Central Asia"

Sawyer Seminar: Digital Humanities Asia

to support an enhanced program of annual data collection and analysis on the state of university press publishing

Measuring the State of Scholarly Publishing 

to support digital storytelling chronicling the experiences of African American women civil rights activists.

Purpose, Persistence, and Power: Trailblazing African American Women and their Fight for Racial Justice in North Carolina and Beyond

for a study of major problems facing research universities in the decade ahead

Study of Research University Problems

for use by its Central European Entrepreneurship Program to provide advice to small businesses in Czechoslovakia

in partial support of a study of central administrative costs at a research university

Central Administration Study

to support the launch of an Asian American music initiative

Asian American Music Initiative

to support the maintenance of monuments in the northern half of Central Park, including the monument to replace the removed monument to J. Marion Sims

Central Park Statue Maintenance

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 

towards the costs of the AAU/ARL Research Libraries Project

Association of American Universities/American Research Libraries Project

matching grant toward costs of establishing, in cooperation with the University of Warsaw, the Central and East European Economic Research Center at the University of Warsaw

EEP - Warsaw University - CEEERC - Central and East European Economic Research Center

to support the new director's program of site visits to member institutions

University Press Environmental Scan

in renewed support of a program to enable the Council to provide publication awards to member presses of the Association of American University Presses

University Presses

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" 