Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to strengthen specific aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist 18 American theaters

Theater Program

to strengthen specific aspects of the theater within a selective program to assist American theaters

to support the Genesis Festival of New Plays

1998 Theater Program

1997 Theater Program

Theatre Stabilization Effort

to strengthen aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist nine American theaters

Theatre Program - 1991

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads"

Sawyer Seminar: Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads

to support a collaborative program to internationalize the liberal arts curriculum

Global Crossroads

to expand the cash reserve for use by the food pantry, soup kitchen, and shelter at St. Bartholomew's Church, in honor of Vice-President Philip E. Lewis upon his retirement from the Foundation

Sustainability Fund

to support a joint graduate program in Africana studies and art history/studio art

Crossroads Cohort: Africana Studies at the Intersection of Art History and Art Making

to support the expansion of an academic leadership development pilot program with a focus on diversity

Academic Leadership Program Expansion

to strengthen the role of the library on liberal arts college campuses

Libraries

to support a planning session for reviewing the teaching of foreign languages

Educational Effectiveness 

to complete the planning process of the Five College Depository Project

Depository Project

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular or administrative consolidation

Consolidation Program

to support pilot projects bridging liberal arts and professional education and the use of digital humanities resources and innovative technology

Curricular Innovations

to establish an endowment in support of administrative operations that serve academic programs

Consortium Endowment

New President

to support strategic academic and administrative planning

Strategic Planning

to support new cooperative efforts in administrative areas

Administrative Cooperation

National Theater Program

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

Fourth Decade Plan

to support future planning for Dorrance Dance

Future Planning Project

to support a summer pilot program on videoconferencing for faculty members on each campus

Interactive Networked Classrooms

to support community-engaged creation and development of new artistic work:  $250,000 to be paid immediately and $100,000 to be matched one-to-one within the grant period

to assist in producing earlier work that merits revival

Regional Theatre Program

to support cooperation in the joint appointment of faculty across its participating institutions

Fresh Combinations - Faculty

to support the consortium’s membership in the Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions program

Emeriti Incentive Award 

to partially support the administrative costs for developing a new fiber optic network that will serve member institutions

Fiber Optic Network

to support a program for mid-career scholars of Africa

African Scholars [HERS]

to support the planning of an academic career network to make the institutions more attractive to dual-career couples in the academy

National Theater Program 

to support the development of a new Five College media studies center

Media Studies Center

to support the expansion of the self-instruction language program located at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and serving the Five Colleges

Self Instructional Language Program

to support a three-year residency with playwright Vera Starbard Bedard through the National Playwright Residency Program

National Playwright Residency Program

to support the development of Native/Indigenous studies

Native/Indigenous Studies Development

to support a planning process for museum data integration potential across the Five Colleges and Museums10 consortia

Museum Knowledge Management Infrastructure

to continue support for a multiyear residency with playwright Vera Starbard, as part of the National Playwright Residency Program

to support a creative “bubble” residency

Dorrance Dance Bubble Residency

to establish the Five College Foreign Language Resource Center

Foreign Language Resource Center

to support the Alaskan Stories initiative

The Alaskan Stories Initiative

to support initiatives of the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages to mainstream programs in the least commonly taught languages

Self-Instructional Language Program

to support postdoctoral fellowships and faculty student research teams

Faculty Recruitment and Renewal

to support the expansion of language offerings for independent learners at its five member institutions

to support language offerings for independent learners at the five colleges

to support the Five College Center for the Study ofWorld Languages’ plan to incorporate electronic technology into two language classes

Study of World Languages

Artists as Catalysts

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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" 