Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

for a collaborative project with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to examine the recent development of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

to continue support for the National Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences

Commission of Humanities and Social Sciences

for a study of "American Academic Culture in Transfonnation: The Past Fifty Years"

American Academic Culture

to support the organization of a commission to examine the nation’s system of education in the humanities and social sciences and recommend measures for strengthening it

Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences

in support of a study of major American overseas research centers in the humanities

American Overseas Research Centers

for American participation in the 1985 Young Scientists' Summer Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

IIASA-YSSP

to support a study of the impact of racial and ethnic diversity in US institutions of higher education

Consequences of Diversity

for American participation in the 1986 Young Scientists' Summer Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - Young Scientists

for American participation in the 1983 Young Scientists' Summer Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

for American participation in the 1984 Young Scientists' Summer Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Daedalus - Australia Volume

to support improving access to the Academy’s earliest and most historically significant records

Collections Survey

to support dissemination of the results of the Foundation-funded Humanities Departmental Survey and Humanities in Our Lives Survey

Communicating Data about the Health of the Humanities

to support a survey of the US public about knowledge and engagement with the humanities and informational flyers on the state of the humanities in the public sphere

The Humanities in Our Lives

Evaluation Center

to support studies of the state, religion and the family in preparation of three separate issues of Daedalus

Daedalus Studies

for distribution of back issues of DAEDALUS to libraries in the U.S. and abroad

Daedalus - Distribution

toward the costs of a Daedalus volume on Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Daedalus Volume

to support the continuation and expansion of a suite of research projects centered on topics related to the humanities

Humanities Indicators

in support of efforts to broaden and enlarge its membership

Membership Policy

toward costs of an issue of Dcedalus and an associated conference on race, ethnicity, and religion in the context of migration

Daedalus - Race Ethnicity Religion Conference

to increase an endowment ongoing maintenance and development of the Humanities Indicators

Humanities Indicators Endowment

to support a study of language capacity and training needs in the US

Teaching Foreign Language

to support planning and development studies for the proposed establishment of a national humanities center

Humanities Center Establishment

to establish an endowment to support the ongoing maintenance and development of the Humanities Indicators

to support the administration of a survey of the US public about knowledge of and engagement with the humanities

to support the development of a prototype compilation of indicators of trends in the humanities

to support travel costs of up to eight national librarians of other countries to a conference which will result in a volume of Daedalus

Daedalus Conference

Evaluation Center 

to support the continuation of the Humanities Indicators project

to support task force meetings for the development of a database on the humanities

Humanities Database

toward costs of a conference on evaluation of social policies focused on education

Social Policy Evaluation Conference

for use by its Western Center toward support of a conference on the impact on universities of their relations with industry

University-Industry Relations Conference

to assist in financing a study on the history of learned societies in the United States

Study - Learned Societies

to support a third round of the Humanities Departmental Survey

Humanities Departmental Survey III

to support a special issue of Daedalus devoted to South Africa

Daedalus for South Africa

Multi-Phased Strategic Planning Project

matching endowment for its Permanent Humanities Fund

Humanities Endowment

to support "Building a Racially Equitable Higher Education in a New Legal Landscape"

Building a Racially Equitable Higher Education in a New Legal Landscape

to support the joint project of Columbia University and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to examine the threats to the major research universities

Research University Project

to support the completion of a history of the National Academy of Sciences

A History of the National Academy of Sciences

for use of the American Academy in Rome toward support of its Fototeca project

Fototeca Project

matching endowment for two senior positions

School of Fine Arts - Endowment

to support planning to expand access to the American Academy in Rome’s scholarly resources

Scholarly Collections Access

to support outreach and implementation of the recently completed report The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree

Integrating Humanities and Sciences Implementation

to support planning for strengthening programs in the performing arts

Performing Arts - Strategies

to support a study that would encourage the effective integration of the arts, humanities, and STEM subjects into undergraduate education

Integrating Humanities and Sciences

toward costs of a study of trends in liberal arts core curricula

Assessing Trends in the Liberal Arts Core

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

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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" 