Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the acquisition of digital resources for the college library, and faculty grants for digital humanities projects, in honor of Vice-President Philip E. Lewis upon his retirement from the Foundation

Digital Resources

to support an initiative that will transform key campus spaces (virtual, physical, temporal) into interactive sites for interrogating race and racism

Senior President: Race, Racism and Accountability

to support a review of four key areas of the college’s operation

Consulting Services

in support of the College’s efforts to integrate technology into the teaching of foreign languages

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology

to advance educational effectiveness and financial efficiencies

Educational Effectiveness

Faculty Support

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

Fresh Combinations

bridging funds to help meet humanities faculty needs in the 1980's

1980s Fund

to support a program of faculty and curricular development

Faculty Development

to support planning for curricular and faculty development in digital studies and the humanities

Digital Studies

New President

to support pilot activities in its orientation program

The Academic Community

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support a series of initiatives incorporating themes of justice, equality, and community into the curriculum

Justice, Equality, Community

to support a program to improve students' writing skills and strengthen faculty diversity

Writing and Composition

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Melissa González

New Directions Fellowship (González)

to support bridge appointments in Islamic and environmental studies and to support undergraduate research

Bridge Funding & Student Research

New Directions Fellowship (Lozada)

to support a presidential discretionary fund

New President - Discretionary Fund

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential life

Academic Community - Minority Student Transition

to support development and expansion of digital studies throughout the curriculum

Development and Expansion of Digital Studies

to support ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Davidson

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

to support a six-month data collection and analysis project concerning the costs of athletic expenditures in New England Small College Athletic Conference programs

New England Small College Athletic Conference

to support the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

to continue support for the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

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

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" 