Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support initiatives to strengthen collaboration, curriculum, and leadership in the arts and sciences and to extend and integrate elements of learning

Mid-Career President: 'Choices for Bates' Initiatives

to support a director of equity and inclusion education for one year while developing an ongoing strategy for campus-wide equity training

Mid-career President: Integrating Equity and Inclusion Education

to support a redesign of the curriculum focused on diversity and inclusion

Educating All Students at a 21st Century Liberal Arts College Through an Inclusive Curriculum

for use to improve educational effectiveness and to gain financial efficiencies, in collaboration with Bowdoin and Colby Colleges

Educational Effectiveness

to assist presidents of liberal arts and historically black colleges to meet the goals they have set for their respective institutions

Senior Presidential Leadership

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies

to support the design of a "Learning Associates" program

Learning Associates

New President

to develop fresh combinations in teaching and learning in the arts and sciences

Fresh Combinations

to support a program of selected faculty fellowships and visiting replacement appointments and an evaluation thereof

Faculty Fellowships

Faculty Support

to support a planning process that will integrate all institutional resources and services dedicated to student learning

Institutional Resources

to support continuation of the learning associates program while additional funds are raised to endow it

to support initiatives to promote curricular reform

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

To support faculty career enhancement initiatives

Faculty Career Enhancement 

to support enhanced sabbatical leaves for continuing faculty

Faculty Sabbatical Program

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular and administrative consolidation

Educational Effectiveness - Consolidation Program

to support a faculty and curricular renewal program in the humanities

Faculty Bridge to Retirement

to support programs for faculty development and curricular innovation

Curricular Innovation & Faculty Development

Increasing Faculty Diversity in the Humanities

for use, in cooperation with Bates and Colby Colleges, toward costs of developing the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Study Abroad Consortium, and of establishing centers in London, Quito, and Cape Town

Study Abroad Consortium  

to support the cost-effective use of technology in foreign language teaching; in collaboration with Bates and Bowdoin Colleges

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology 

to support the establishment of a collaborative collection development and management system with Bates and Colby Colleges for their libraries

Shared Library Collection 

to support the development of a plan for creating and building a library collection program for Bowdoin, Bates, and Colby Colleges

Library Collection Program 

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

to support the continued recruitment and training of future faculty, in collaboration with Bates, Connecticut, and Williams Colleges, and through cooperation with Columbia University and the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, and California at Berkeley

Creating Connections Consortium

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

to support a final round of the Humanities Edge program, a partnership between Miami Dade College and Florida International University

Community College-University Partnerships

to support the development of a college-wide writing program

Morehouse College Writing Program and Center

to support collaborative electronic library activities; with The College of Wooster, Denison University, Oberlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University

Educational Effectiveness - Collaborative Library Projects [with College of Wooster, Denison University, Oberlin College and Ohio Wesleyan University]

to support the second phase of the College Retirement Project

Mellon College Retirement Project - Phase II

to support a forum on the future of the liberal arts college

Future of the Liberal Arts College 

to support the opening of Smolny College, and the establishment of an international summer/winter term in human rights in Southern Africa

Foreign Study [Smolny College & IHRE]

to support the continuation of the Colby/Bates/Bowdoin foreign study programs while two new presidents help structure the next proposal to the Foundation

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" 