Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies 

to support the environmental studies program

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential life

Academic Community

Strategic Planning Process

New Presidents Grant

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

Arabic Language Program

to support a collaborative academic computing program

Academic Computing Program 

to provide bridge support for tenure-track appointments in philosophy, political theory, and religious studies, and for the appointment of graduate writing fellows to work with students on writing, research, and the uses of instructional technology and presentation

First-Year Liberal Arts Initiative

to support the redesign of the first year liberal arts requirement

Mid-Career President: Freshman Seminars

to support programs in Portuguese language and Latin American history and culture

Culture and History of the Americas

to support faculty diversity initiatives in the humanities

Diversity and Inclusion Across the Academic Spectrum

to support internationalization of the curriculum and undergraduate research in the humanities

Senior President: Global Liberal Arts and Humanistic Studies

to support a program to strengthen the academic library system at the Claremont Colleges

Libraries

to support a program of study for community college faculty members who teach in the humanities

Community College Faculty

to support the implementation of a common administrative computing system for the seven Claremont colleges

Administrative Computing System

to support consortial initiatives that expand training in inclusive pedagogy, collaborative instruction, and capacity building

Claremont Colleges Teaching and Learning Center

to support digital humanities initiatives

Digital Humanities at the Claremont Colleges - Developing Capacity and Community

bridging funds to help meet humanities faculty needs in the 1980's at the six Claremont colleges

1980s Fund

to develop fresh combinations in teaching and learning in the arts and sciences at the six Claremont Colleges

Fresh Combinations

to support the establishment of four new Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship programs

MMUF Claremont Consortium

to endow "The Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professorship in the Humanities"

AWMF Humanities Professorship

to implement a common system for integrating the records of student services

Educational Effectiveness

New Presidents

to support an intercollegiate environmental analysis program

Environmental Analysis Program

to support the appointment of new faculty in anticipation of senior faculty retirements

Mellon 2000 Funds

to support planning for a center for the digital humanities

Center for Digital Humanities 

to support activities related to the creation of a western regional technology center

Western Regional Technology Center

to support preparation for the establishment of a western regional technology center

National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education - Western Regional Center

toward costs of a study of the flow of exceptional talent into the academic profession

Academic Flow 

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

Dissertation Seminars

toward costs of establishing programs for teacher education

Teacher Education

to support an evaluation of the use of instructional technologies in graduate education in the humanities

Effectiveness of Online Tools in Graduate Education

to support continued work on The American Faculty: The New Era of Work and Careers

The American Faculty - The New Era of Work and Careers

to support supplementary research for a forthcoming book entitled The American Faculty:  The New Era of Work and Careers

to support the creation of a Critical Justice Education program incorporating the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges, the Claremont Graduate College, Norco Community College, and nearby carceral facilities

Enhancing Justice Education Programs

 to support a consortium-wide Critical Justice Education program incorporating the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges, Norco Community College, and nearby prisons, juvenile detention facilities, and residential rehabilitation centers

for faculty and curriculum development with other Claremont colleges

Faculty/Curricular Renewal

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

to improve educational effectiveness and to gain financial efficiencies in collaboration with other Claremont colleges

Educational Effectiveness 

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

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" 