Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support yearlong community-focused residencies for local artists whose voices are underrepresented in the Midwest

Touring and Residency Fund for Immigrant and Native American Artists

to support a final round of the National Endowment for the Arts' Performing Arts Discovery program

Performing Arts Discovery

to support the Performing Arts Discovery international exchange program

to support the Regional Arts Resilience Fund, a collaboration among the six US Regional Arts Organizations

Regional Arts Resilience Fund

Performing Arts Discovery Program

to continue support for "We the Many," a community-centered artist residency program to explore the changing Midwestern identity

We the Many

to support planning for a new national regranting program to help bring performative social and narrative change projects to completion and production

Planning for New National Regranting Program

Midwest Faculty Seminars

matching grant in support of the Midwest Faculty Seminar

toward costs of developing a technical plan to extend the University's Library Data Management System to research libraries in the Midwest Library Network

Midwest Library Network

to support summer seminars to engage faculty from the humanities, arts, sciences, and social sciences around contemporary, cross-disciplinary topics

Liberal Arts Faculty Seminars

to support networks of artists, writers, and archivists in the Midwest through the Midwest Satellites regional relationship-building program and the Sixty Collective alternative benefits program

Sixty Collective and Midwest Satellites

to support training, technical assistance, production, and documentation of new monuments in rural Midwest communities

Monuments Across the Rural Midwest

to support collaborative initiatives in the humanities

Collaborations Among Liberal Arts Colleges and CIC Universities

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest"

Sawyer Seminar--Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest

for use of The Associated Colleges of the Midwest, The Newberry Library, to support the Newberry Library Seminar in the Humanities

Newberry Library Seminar in the Humanities

to provide opportunities for the professional growth of faculty members from neighboring colleges and universities

general support for its conservation activities

Conservation Activities

for the Regional Conservation Center Directors' Conference

Directors Conference

to support collaborative conservation efforts and training opportunities in partnership with communities

Collaborative Conservation

to support change capital, as part of the Foundation’s Comprehensive Organizational Health 

Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

to support and strengthen programs and financial structures of preservation field services

Preservation Field Service Center 

to promote cooperation and collaboration among liberal arts colleges

Consortial Support

to support programs that educate faculty on the economic challenges facing liberal arts colleges and their effects on institutional decision-making

Institute on College Futures

to support programs in information literacy and collaborative collections management

Libraries

to support efforts to strengthen existing study-abroad programs through increased collaboration

Global Partners

Strategic Planning

to establish an endowment in support of administrative operations that serve academic programs

Consortium Endowment

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support strategic planning and instructional technology initiatives

New President

to support a review of information literacy programs run by ACM colleges

Information Literacy

Global Partners 

toward costs of program development in off-campus study, in cooperation with the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. and the Associated Colleges of the South

Off-Campus Study

to support a project fostering academic innovation and faculty development through collaboration

Faculty Career Enhancement

to support the implementation of an Academic Leadership Fellows program among member institutions

Academic Leadership Fellows 

to support faculty career enhancement programs

in support of its Program for Minority Students and Academic Careers

Minority Students - Summer Research

in support of the Program for Minority Students and Academic Careers

Minority Students - Academic Careers

Undergraduate and Faculty Fellows Program for a Diverse Professoriate

to support research focusing on the use of racial property restrictions in Iowa's metropolitan counties, their impacts, and their implications for racial equity today

Dividing the City: Race Restrictions and the Architecture of Segregation in the Midwest

in support of a pilot program of graduate fellowships in arts criticism

Arts Fellowships

to support Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition with development staffing and sustainability grants to its membership

Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition

to support capacity building and related community-informed arts programming

Community-Informed Arts Programming

to support a study evaluating the potential role of professional theater in Richmond’s arts district redevelopment plan

Arts Evaluation Study

to continue support for community and artist-informed programming

Regional Arts Resilience Fund 

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" 