Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a research program on the independent sector of higher education

Research Program in Independent Higher Education

to support teaching, learning, and community understanding of the continuing legacies of slavery in the United States

The Legacies of  American Slavery: Independent Colleges Reckoning with the Past

to support a progressive reconceptualization of the organization’s extensive suite of faculty and administrative leadership programs and trainings that place equity and justice at their center and ensure a focus on underrepresented faculty

Revitalizing Leadership Development for Independent Colleges and Universities

to support the collaborative management and use of digital images

Shared Shelf for Teaching and Research at Independent Colleges

to support an assessment of online learning and teaching in the humanities at liberal arts colleges

Understanding MOOCs in Independent Higher Education

to support two inclusive pedagogy institutes for faculty and administrators

Faculty Responsibility for Inclusive Pedagogy: An Institute for Faculty and Administrators at Independent Colleges and Universities

to support an initiative to strengthen the teaching of philosophy

Philosophy at Smaller Liberal Arts Colleges

to provide support for representatives from select historically black colleges and Appalachian colleges to attend a conference on library development

HBCU Library Development

to support the strengthening of information literacy programs and ensuring the effective use of academic facilities in liberal arts colleges

Libraries Workshops [NITLE]

Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction II

to support programs that will enable colleges affiliated with CIC and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) to address their library and other learning space needs more effectively

Libraries Workshops 

to support planning for a series of workshops to help faculty evaluate and use discipline-specific digital information

Faculty Workshops

to support information fluency workshops in core disciplines of the humanities

Information Fluency Programs

Information Fluency Programs II

to support a program that will help new college and university presidents become successful, long-term leaders of their institutions

Presidential Practice Pilot Program

to support coordination of a consortium for online humanities instruction

Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction

to support collaborative libraries initiatives

Collaborative Library Initiatives

to support substantial curricular revision and enhancement

Greek Literature & American History

to support an initiative to engage undergraduate students in archival research on topics that serve a public audience

Humanities Research for the Public Good

to support efforts to assist students who could not return to the European Humanities University due to its closure to continue their education at US institutions

European Humanities University Students in US

to support faculty development seminars in classical studies and American history

Faculty Development Programs in Classics and History

in support of an investigation into the national representation of the liberal arts and of the independent sector

Liberal Arts and the Independent Sector

for general support of the Council which assists independent preparatory schools in their religious programs

Operating Support

to support JSTOR membership of ten colleges in the association

JSTOR Access

to continue support to implement strategic plans, leadership development and convenings, and curriculum opportunities for participating art colleges

Centering Social Justice in Art & Design Higher Education and Career Pathways

to support planning for work with the Creative and Independent Producers Alliance

Planning for Creative and Independent Producers Alliance

to support its program of developing financial aid from the business community for its member colleges

Financial Aid

in renewed support of its program of developing financial aid from the business community for its member colleges

Financial Aid Development

to support program for devdopment of financial aid from the business community for its member colleges

Developing Business Community Financial Aid

to support the development of a secure,Web-based, purchasing system

Web-based Purchasing System  

to continue support for staffing Art School Futures strategic planning, leadership development and convenings, curriculum opportunities, and culminating reports

Art School Futures

to support strategic planning, leadership development and convenings, and curriculum opportunities

to support a conference on library collaboration for librarians from member institutions

Library Collaboration Conference

to support a collaborative venture in environmental science and technology

Environmental Science and Technology

to support professional development programs for women and minority members of the Council

Leadership Development Program

to support faculty renewal and the Independent Study Program

Independent Study Programs

to support the development of an information technology skills certification examination for liberal arts students

Technology Skills Certification

to support an independent evaluation of the Foundation's grantmaking in the area of digital scholarly publishing

Independent Evaluation of the Foundation's Digital Scholarly Publishing Initiative

matching endowment for its Humanities Council, and term support for humanities faculty members in four-year colleges in the region to study and pursue research at the University

Humanities Council

to support follow-up work of the National Commission on the Role and Future of State Colleges and Universities

National Commission on the Role and Future of State Colleges and Universities

Council on Solar Biofuels

Independent Sector Annual Conference

toward costs of a plan to enhance support for a broad range of independent institutions

Organizing Committee

to support planning for the Berkshire Humanities Council

Berkshire Humanities Council

to support language offerings for independent learners at the five colleges

Self-Instructional Language Program

toward costs of collecting data on the finances of independent research libraries

Independent Research Libraries - Financial Data

to support a meeting of the Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

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" 