Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a program of faculty development and the interrelation of graduate and undergraduate study

University-College Development

toward costs of faculty programs and curricular developments to strengthen its university-college concept

Faculty/Curriculum Development

to support teaching and learning strategies that connect the theory and practice of liberal education

Liberal Education and Effective Practice

to support a curricular initiative that connects liberal education and effective practice

Humanities Present: From Inquiry to Action

for use by the Graduate School of Geography to analyze the effects of human activities on the earth's physical environment

Geographical Studies

New President

to support a faculty development initiative to revitalize institutional citizenship and responsibility

Midcareer President: Culture of Faculty Thriving Initiative (COFTI) 

to conduct a seminar to advance new theories and concepts of man and environment

New Theories and Concepts of Man and Environment

to support the introduction of inclusive and innovative pedagogy through courses focused on problems of practice

Introducing "Problems of Practice" Courses into All Humanities Majors

Emeritus Fellowships [Clark]

to support a Distinguished Achievement Award

Distinguished Achievement Award [Clark]

support of a joint planning effort of the College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Massachusetts to study the feasibility of interinstitutional cooperation and action in the Worcester area

Inter-Institutional Activities

to support the development of digital humanities infrastructure in the context of the Historically Black Colleges and University sector

Digital Humanities Infrastructure

to support ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Clark

matching grant to improve programs in the humanities

Humanities Programs

Faculty support

to support the implementation of a program emphasizing undergraduate research skills as part of comprehensive curricular reform

Undergraduate Research Curricular

to support comprehensive planning and development

Quality Enhancement Plan

in support of activities designed to increase minority participation in international affairs

Minority Representation - International Affairs

support of a fellowship program to train librarians in predominantly black college libraries to motivate students and faculty to utilize library resources

School of Library Service

Institution Building - Student Retention

to support strengthening academic programs in the social sciences

Institution Building - Social Science Research

IB - Social Science Research II

to support planning for improved student recruitment and retention

Student Recruitment and Enrollment Management Program

to support the implementation of a student recruitment and enrollment management program

Implementation of a Student Recruitment and Enrollment Management Plan

to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Emergency Student Support in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Faculty Support

to strengthen the teaching of arts and humanities

Black Colleges Program

matching endowment for a Fund for Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the arts and sciences

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

to support an environmental studies program

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support an assessment of its information management system

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

Senior Presidential Leadership

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support planning initiatives related to diversity and inclusion

Faculty Diversity Planning

to support a program of innovative teaching and inclusive pedagogy

Teaching Excellence Program

Flexible Faculty Development

to support community partnerships to address social suffering brought about by incarceration, inequitable access to higher education, and physical/mental illness

Healing Social Suffering Through Narrative

to support an interdisciplinary student-faculty research program in the arts and humanities

Student-Faculty Research in the Arts and Humanities

to support the transportation and conservation of the works from Haitian collections

Guillaume Lethière

toward early planning costs of exhibitions and publications relating to its permanent collection

Exhibitions/Publications

to endow a fellowship in the Research and Academic Program

Humanities Fellowship Endowment

to support activities to strengthen scholarship in art history

Art History Centers

to support activities aimed at strengthening scholarship in art history

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" 