Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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 an environmental studies program

Environmental Studies - Wooster Institute for a Sustainable Global Environment

to support the development of a web archives network model, focused initially on Black collecting organizations

Black Web Archives Collective

to support a program of faculty development

Faculty Development

to support a program of faculty-mentored undergraduate research

Collaborative Research Environment

Faculty Support

New President

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

Fresh Combinations

to support an endowment for a new writing program

Senior President

Fresh Combinations - Curriculum 

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support faculty renewal and the Independent Study Program

Independent Study Programs

to support a presidential discretionary fund

New President - Discretionary Fund

to support bridge funding for hiring interdisciplinary scholars 

Promoting Diverse and Interdisciplinary Scholarship 

for planning of shared academic resources with Denison University and The College of Wooster

Cooperative Project 

to assist this theatre to purchase its performing space

Purchase of The Performing Garage

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

Ensemble Theater Program

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

Future of the Liberal Arts College 

in support of projects in the Trinity College Library

Trinity College Library

to support research on the economic returns of different college majors

Economic Returns of College Majors

to continue to support general operations for the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

General Operating Support: Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

to support the transfer of humanities students from The Community College of Baltimore County to Johns Hopkins University, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

Community College-University Partnerships

matching grant toward costs of curricular development and library automation at the American College ofThessaloniki

Curriculum Development and Library Automation for the American College of Thessaloniki

toward cost of renovating existing space for its College of Fine Arts

Renovation - College of Fine Arts

to provide interim support for its College of Science in Society Program

College of Science in Society

to continue support for Humanities for All, a partnership program with Johns Hopkins University that promotes the transfer of community college students to four-year institutions and innovative teaching practices in the humanities

toward costs of providing data about college freshmen from 1976 and 1989 for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" project

College and Beyond

to assist its College of Arts and Sciences to revise and implement courses for its undergraduate curriculum

College of Arts and Sciences

to help four-year institutions improve their recruitment and retention of two-year-college students

College Transfer Project

to support scholarships for students in the Honors College program

Honors College

toward costs of collecting data for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" study

for use by the Association of College and Research Libraries toward costs of a project to collect data on libraries in historically black colleges and universities

Association of College and Research Libraries - Black College Library Data

to increase transfer rates of Ilisagvik College students to four-year degree programs by implementing articulation agreements between Ilisagvik and four-year Alaskan, Northwest, and other tribal colleges/universities

Supporting Student Success through Increased College Readiness and the Facilitation of Articulation Agreements

to support a study of the role race and ethnic inequality play in students’ transitions from high school to college and of the impact of the Washington State Initiative 200 ballot referendum on minority college attendance

Minority Students' College Decisions

toward costs of a study of the well-being and satisfaction of students in the "College and Beyond" database

in support of a research project on life satisfaction using the "College and Beyond" database

for use by its Appalachian Center for the Appalachian College Program

Appalachian College Program

to support a study of the role of race and ethnicity in students’ transition from high school to college and the effect of a Washington State referendum on college attendance by minorities

Minority Students' College Decisions - Hirschman

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

The Three College Collaboration

to support research on factors affecting minority high school students’ decisions to attend college and on the effects of recent rulings barring the use of race in college admissions decisions

to support the expansion of the Louisiana-based College in Prison Program for incarcerated women, and establish post-release leadership development opportunities

Operation Restoration Tulane College of Professional Advancement College in Prison Program

Minority Students' College Decisions - Kain

in support of the initial cost of data collection for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" research project

to support research on life satisfaction using the College and Beyond database

College and Beyond 

Minority Students' College Decisions - Allen

support of its college-level educational programs at the Museum's Art Resources Center in Manhattan's Lower East Side

College-Level Educational Programs

to support a study of the factors that influence low-income college students’ decisions to leave school

College Dropout Decisions

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" 