Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a review of the Appalachian College Association Central Library

Appalachian College Association - Central Library Review

for use by the Appalachian College Association to provide professional opportunities for faculty members and to promote collaborative research between faculty members and students

Appalachian College Association - Faculty Scholars Program

to support a professional development program for women administrators at Appalachian College Association colleges

Professional Development Program

to support participation of faculty from colleges in the Appalachian College Association in the Salzburg Global Seminars

Salzburg Global Seminars

to support the planning of a study of the impact of Appalachian College Association college graduates on their region

Planning Study

to support a scholarly assessment of field recordings in three Appalachian college archives

Field Recordings Assessment

to support digitization of selected archival materials at seven Appalachian colleges

Archival Digitization

to support an inventory of special collections at 28 Appalachian colleges

Special Collections Inventory

to improve student and faculty access to electronic networks and databases at selected Appalachian colleges

Electronic Database Access

to improve teaching and learning at its 33 member institutions through the use of technology and greater collaboration

Appalachian College Program - Technology

to support the faculty fellowship program

Appalachian College Program - Faculty Fellowships

endowment of faculty fellowships and grants

to support an evaluation of the Association’s member colleges’ archives and special collections

Archive and Special Collections Evaluation

to support the participation of an additional college in the Bowen Central Library of Appalachia

Central Library - Expansion of Shared Online Catalog

to support activities that would strengthen the Association’s administrative infrastructure

Consortial Support

to support the management of collections purchases for the Association’s Central Library

Southeastern Library Network Cental Library

to support professional development opportunities for women administrators in member colleges

Professional Development

to support a review of the technological infrastructure of member colleges, and to support the student technical assistance program

Instructional Technology

to support professional development opportunities for women administrators at member colleges

Women's Administrators [HERS]

to expand professional development opportunities for women administrators in member colleges

to support the reconfiguration of current technology initiatives for faculty, students, and information technologists at member colleges

Centralized Technologies II

to foster presidential collaborative projects among member colleges

Inter-Institutional Collaborative Projects

to support a study of graduates of colleges in Central Appalachia

Central Appalachia Graduate Study

to support inter-institutional collaborative projects that enhance the academic programs at member colleges

Inter-Institutional Collaborative Teaching

to support the participation of two additional colleges in the Bowen Central Library of Appalachia shared catalog

to support collaborative projects that provide additional career opportunities to faculty and staff at member colleges

Building the Technology Infrastructure to Support Collaboration, Civility, Culture, and Courses at Colleges in Appalachia

to support an expansion of the collaborative Watershed Project

Watershed Project

to expand the shared online catalog of the Central Library

Library Catalog

to establish an endowment that would partially assist with future annual payments of ARTstor access fees, and to fund the one-time archive capital fee

ARTstor - NITLE

to design a plan that would centralize technological services

Centralized Technologies

to endow a librarian position and support it until endowment earnings are generated

Central Library

to support access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences III, IV, and Complement

JSTOR in Appalachia

to support the planning of a central helpdesk

Central Help Desk

to support additional professional development opportunities for faculty members and instructional technologists

IT Director Program

to promote the use of technology for information access and collaborative academic activities

Technology Information Access

toward costs of planning a collaborative faculty development program

Collaborative Faculty Development Program

to support participation in JSTOR and ARTstor for a new member of the consortium

JSTOR and ARTstor Membership

to support a pilot collaborative faculty development program

Faculty Development Program - Pilot

to support additional technology support for ACA’s central library and joint course delivery system

Central Library Technology Upgrade

to support a partnership for undergraduate research with the University of North Carolina at Asheville

Partnership for Undergraduate Research

to support planning for a consortium-wide foreign-language teaching and learning initiative

Language Acquisition in Appalachia

to support expansion of the William G. Bowen Central Library of Appalachia's collections

Central Library Expansion - Bowen

New President - Discretionary Fund

to support technology initiatives and expansion of the William G. Bowen Central Library shared online catalog

Technology Initiative/Library Expansion

to support faculty career enhancement programs and expansion of the Central Library shared online catalog

Faculty Development/Library Catalog

JSTOR and ARTstor Participation

in support of professional development for faculty members at participating institutions, collaborative research between faculty and students, and data collection

Fellowships/Research/Data Collection

to support the expansion of electronic collections, to extend development opportunities for library staff, and to fund an endowment for collection fees and library operations

Central Library - Phase II

Artists as Catalysts

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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" 