Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Pathways to a Just Society

to support faculty career enhancement and institutional planning on the use of instructional technology

Educational Effectiveness

New President

to improve educational effectiveness and gain financial efficiencies

to support a program of faculty development

Faculty Development

to explore opportunities for teaching and learning through the use of digital resources

Digital Learning

Course Partnerships

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support interdisciplinary collaborations in the digital humanities

Collaborative Pedagogies in the Digital Age

to support student-faculty collaborative research in the humanities and social sciences

Student Faculty Research in Humanities & Social Sciences

to support student faculty collaborative research in the social sciences and humanities

to support services to the theater field and collaborations among theaters

Austin, TX Theater Collective

to support research on the economic returns of different college majors

Economic Returns of College Majors

to support the creation of a fellowship program for threatened scholars from Latin America and the Caribbean in Austin and Puerto Rico, as part of a network within the Crossing Latinidades consortium at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Threatened Scholars Program

to support a project that will train a new generation of college in prison educators through a seminar and practicum in the history and theory of prison literature by and about incarcerated people in the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean


Pido la palabra: A Texas Prison Literature Project for Social Justice and the Literary Imagination 

to support postdoctoral teaching fellows to strengthen disciplinary writing in the humanities

Undergraduate Writing Collaboration with University of Texas at Austin

to support the development of disabled peer mentorship at all academic ranks that offers a model for cross-disability and cross-institutional mentorship and cohort building

The Crip Narratives Collective

to support the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies

Program Support

to support the further development of software to make audiovisual collections of cultural heritage materials more discoverable and accessible

AVAnnotate - Phase II

to support the use of poetry in audiovisual formats for research and teaching

Annotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow

to continue support for the Puerto Rico Arts Initiative

Puerto Rico Arts Initiative

to support a New Directions fellowship for Heather Houser

New Directions Fellowship: Reproduction Amid Climate Crisis

to support cross-institutional curricular collaboration with Babson College and the Olin College of Engineering

The Three College Collaboration

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

College and Beyond

in support of the initial cost of data collection for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" research project

to support a study of the factors that influence low-income college students’ decisions to leave school

College Dropout Decisions

to support the Pathways to College program

Pathways to College Program

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

in support of its High School-College Cooperative Learning Program

High School-College Program

to support a planning symposium on the future of the liberal arts college library

Liberal Arts College Library

in support of projects in the Trinity College Library

Trinity College Library

to support a Minnesota higher education study of college costs, affordability, and choices

College Costs Study

to support the project "Paying For College: Access, Affordability and Choice in Minnesota Higher Education"

Paying for College

to support the development of a survey of recent tribal college graduates

Tribal College Graduate Survey

for research and training in the demography of developing countries

Demographic Center 

in support of seminars in literature and history for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

Dissertation Seminars

in support of a program of research and other activities on immigration and inter-group relations in the United States

Immigrant Policy 

for research and training in the demography of developing countries, and in support of a program to encourage minority students to undertake graduate studies in demography

Demographic Center

Ecosystems Research 

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of Africa, Latin America, and other areas

Plants Initiative 

Emeritus Fellowships 

to support research and training programs related to urbanization and migration in developing countries

to support a program of research fellowships at the Harry H. Ransom Humanities Research Center

Ransom Center - Fellowships

Demography Center [Urbanization]

Arts on Campus

in support of a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships

in support of a program of short-term research fellowships at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

for use by its Population Research Center for a study of the labor market consequences of immigration for African-Americans

Labor Market/Immigration

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" 