Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the continued internationalization of the university’s undergraduate core curriculum

Columbia University - Globalizing the Core

to support a program of collaboration with Columbia University to strengthen the core curriculum

Curriculum Collaboration with Columbia University

to support the establishment of The Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination at the university's Global Center in Paris

Columbia University - Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination

to renew research and teaching support for the Center for Spatial Research on urban conflict

The Center for Spatial Research at Columbia University

to assist the scholarly publication program of Columbia University Press

University Press Program

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of Columbia University Press

to support the joint project of Columbia University and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to examine the threats to the major research universities

Research University Project

to support the preservation of audiotapes in the Oral History Research Office of the Columbia University Libraries

Audio Preservation

support of conference sponsored by the International Committee on the University Emergency and for publication of materials and proceedings of the conference

Columbia University - International Committee on the University

toward support of Harvard-Columbia Intensive Summer Studies Program for faculty members from predominantly black southern colleges

Harvard-Columbia Intensive Summer Studies Program

to support publication of long-form journalism that addresses global problems from a public humanities perspective

Columbia Global Reports

to support the role of the Heyman Center for the Humanities in the instructional and scholarly activities of the university

University Humanities Centers

to support initiatives at the Heyman Center for the Humanities aimed at strengthening its role in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

matching grant in support of the Economics Honors Program at Warsaw University

EEP - Economics Honors Program - Warsaw University

toward support of a program in advanced composition at Columbia College

Composition Program

matching grant toward costs of establishing, in cooperation with the University of Warsaw, the Central and East European Economic Research Center at the University of Warsaw

EEP - Warsaw University - CEEERC - Central and East European Economic Research Center

to provide part-time teaching appointments for retired faculty members within the Columbia College general education program

Senior Scholars Teaching Appointments

to support residential fellowships for early-career scholars and advanced PhD students in exile in Jordan at the university's Global Center in Amman

Establishing a Fellowship Program for Emerging Displaced Scholars at the Columbia Global Center in Amman

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Racial Justice and Abolition Democracy: An Action Curriculum for A Just Society

in support of an online library of working papers in international relations

Columbia International Affairs Online

to support a collaboration of the Heyman Center for the Humanities and Columbia's new Center for Social Justice in the development of a program for the education of prisoners and previously incarcerated citizens

Justice in Education Initiative

to support practitioner-academic collaboration in research and training

University Practitioner Linkages in Population

for a study of college and university accreditation and accountability

Accreditation Study 

toward maintaining and strengthening the intellectual excellence of the University

General Support

in support of preservation administration internships in the University Library

Preservation - Administration Internships

in support of preservation-administration internships in the University Library

Library Preservation Administration Internships

to endow a new senior conservator position in the university library

Senior Library Conservator Endowment

toward costs of an advanced economics instructional program at the University of Warsaw

EEP - U/Warsaw Project

to support a partnership with Cornell University libraries to share resources, collections, services, and expertise

Planning for Shared Library Services 

to support collectively developed projects in disciplinary innovation and cross-institutional collaboration by a consortium of university humanities centers

Disciplinary Innovation

toward costs of cooperative arrangements between its Press and Columbia University Press

NYU/Columbia Press Project

to support internationalization of the undergraduate core curriculum through faculty renewal and coordinated use of the university's global resources

Global Core Curriculum

to continue support for preliminary research for a multi-dimensional measure of the degree to which American colleges and universities offer a liberal arts education

LA Index

MyVote Project

to support the Movements Against Mass Incarceration Lab

Movements Against Mass Incarceration

to support the preparation of translations of 18th and  19th century Latin American literary works which illuminate the subject of national identity

Latin American Translations

to support the Pulitzer Prize Board's Centennial Campfires Initiative

Pulitzer Centennial Campfires Initiative

to continue support for the Justice-in-Education Initiative which provides educational opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated persons

Justice in Education Initiative - Phase III

to continue support for the Justice-in-Education Initiative, a collaboration of the Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Center for Justice that provides educational opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students

Justice in Education Initiative – Phase II

to support the Center for Justice’s Beyond the Bars fellowships

The Center for Justice's "Beyond the Bars Fellowships"

to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Current Grantee Prison Education Programs

to support the publication of scholarly monographs in the humanities, in collaboration with the University of California and the University of Chicago

Monographs Initiative - South Asian Studies 

to support the development of a prototype software system for the documentation of buildings and artifacts in their geographical and historical contexts

Archmap

to support seminars exploring important contemporary issues in relation to broader philosophical and social scientific concepts

Seminars

to support research on a biography of Andrew W. Mellon

Mellon Biography 

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowships

in support of research on a biography of Andrew W. Mellon

Mellon Biography

to support research and training programs in the field of forced migration

Refugee Center

toward costs of a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research

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

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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" 