Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges merging their library catalogs as a first step towards a full library collaboration

Libraries 

to strengthen the role of the library on liberal arts college campuses

Libraries

to support cross-institutional administrative and academic collaboration with St. Olaf College

Broadening the Bridge

for use to enable long-serving and highly-successful presidents of four liberal arts colleges to strengthen programs which will have significant influence on the future directions of their colleges

Senior Presidential Leadership

to support programs to redesign and strengthen library services

toward discretionary support of a study of faculty development for young teacher-scholars and in support of travel and clerical assistance

Discretionary Support

in support of four postdoctoral fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies

for use to improve educational effectiveness and to gain financial efficiencies

Educational Effectiveness

to support global learning across the curriculum

Global Learning

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

Fresh Combinations

to establish and carry forward a comprehensive program of faculty development

Faculty Development

to improve educational effectiveness and to gain financial efficiencies

New President

to support a cooperative collection development project for its libraries

Library Consortium 

Arabic Initiative

to support its existing environmental studies program

bridging funds to help meet humanities faculty needs in the 1980's

1980s Fund

to support the postdoctoral fellowship program

AWMF Humanities Chair

to support planning programs to address the career enhancement of liberal arts faculty members, from their initial appointments to post-retirement

Faculty Career Enhancement 

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

Associated Kyoto Program

to support a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

to support membership in the Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions program

Emeriti Incentive Award

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Professor Lori Pearson

New Directions Fellowship (Pearson)

New Directions Fellowship (Willis)

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Noah Salomon

New Directions Fellowship (Salomon)

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Indigenous Engagement in Place 

to support the teaching of visual analysis, interpretation, and communication skills across the curriculum

Visualizing the Liberal Arts

New Directions Fellowship (McNally)

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

in support of an undergraduate fellowship program intended to increase the number of minority students enrolled in PhD programs in designated fields of the arts and sciences


for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in the arts and sciences

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in fields of the arts and sciences

to support the integration of global studies across the curriculum

The Integration of Global Studies

to support the integration of library, information technology, and other curricular support services

Library and Information Technology Integration

to support ongoing scholarly activities by a former New Directions recipient

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (McNally)

to support the renewal of an undergraduate fellowship program

2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support the renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2009 Renewal

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2006 Renewal

to support an initiative that responds to the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence in liberal arts education

Mid-Career President: Artificial Intelligence in Liberal Arts Education

Public Works: Providing Authentic Experience with Difference in the Arts and Humanities

for use, in collaboration with Carleton College, to support improvements in foreign language teaching by using technology

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology  

for use by four colleges--Carleton, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, and Williams-in support of the Research Scholar Program for Minority Students

Four College Summer Minority Program

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

The Three College Collaboration

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" 