Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support strengthening of student and faculty engagement with the collections at the Colby College Museum of Art

Art Museums and the Curriculum

to support programs in public affairs and civic engagement

Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs & Civic Engagement

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

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology 

to support to a new president in institutional planning

Institutional Planning

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies

New Presidents

to support a program of faculty and curricular development

Faculty Development

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

Fresh Combinations

to support the development of a campus-wide environmental humanities initiative

Environmental Humanities

to support an environmental studies program

Faculty Support

to support the environmental studies program

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support programs for curricular enhancement

Mid-Career President

Senior President: Student Writing

to support planning for the future needs of the humanities

Planning for the Humanities

to support postdoctoral fellowships and bridge positions for planned faculty retirements

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Planned Retirements

to support the inaugural programmatic activities of the Lunder Institute for American Art 

to support the development of a center for the arts and humanities

Center for the Arts and Humanities

to support academic programs being developed in public affairs and civic engagement

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Sarah Duff

New Directions Fellowship: A Change of Life: A Hormonal History of the British Empire

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  

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

Educational Effectiveness

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

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 activities that assist humanities students to complete their degrees at Miami Dade College, and transfer to Florida International University, and strengthen faculty and staff collaborations between the institutions

to continue programming that supports high school-to-college transitions, transfers from two- to four-year institutions, and college retention for Native American students

Native Pathways to College Phase III

to continue support for graduate degree completion fellowships for Tribal College and University faculty

Tribal College Faculty Development Initiative

to continue support for activities that would assist humanities students in completing their degrees at Miami Dade College and transferring to Florida International University, and strengthen faculty and staff collaborations between the institutions

to support comprehensive administrative and operational collaboration with Haverford College

Administrative & Operational Collaboration with Haverford College

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" 