Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages

Five Colleges Center for the Study of World Languages

to support language offerings for independent learners at the five colleges

Self-Instructional Language Program

to support the study of less commonly taught languages: $1,000,000 as permanent endowment, to be matched two-to-one within five years; and $775,000 in spendable funds within six years

Five College Center for the Study of World Languages Endowment

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

Museum Knowledge Management Infrastructure

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 establish the Five College Foreign Language Resource Center

Foreign Language Resource Center

to complete the planning process of the Five College Depository Project

Depository Project

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

Media Studies Center

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

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

Study of World Languages

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

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 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

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

Interactive Networked Classrooms

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

to support the development of Native/Indigenous studies

Native/Indigenous Studies Development

to support postdoctoral fellowships and faculty student research teams

Faculty Recruitment and Renewal

to support pedagogical innovation in language learning

Transforming Programs for Language Learning

toward costs of establishing a Center for Near Eastern Studies

Center for Near Eastern Studies

to support collaborative electronic library activities

Educational Effectiveness - Collaborative Library Projects

to support the exploration of blended learning pedagogies in the humanities

Exploring Blended Learning in the Humanities

to support planning for the shared management and shelving of collections of print monographs among northeast regional college and university libraries

New England Regional Library Print Management Planning

to support language pedagogy collaborations between liberal arts colleges and a research university

Language Pedagogy Collaborations

to support the integration of digital resources into the curricula of liberal arts colleges

Next Generation Library Initiative

Language Enrichment and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

to support the integration of digital scholarship into the curricula of liberal arts colleges

Digital Collections: From Projects to Pedagogy and Scholarship

to support the acquisition and implementation of a shared web-based procurement system

Collaborative eProcurement Initiative

to support a research and training program for faculty to improve advising and curricular programs for underrepresented and first-generation students

Enhancing Inclusive Curricular Practices

to improve educational effectiveness and gain financial efficiencies

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology

to support an initiative of the Northwest Five Consortium to build capacity for community-engaged learning in partnership with civic, cultural, educational, and government agencies and institutions, in collaboration with Lewis & Clark and Reed Colleges, the University of Puget Sound, and Willamette University

Northwest Five Consortium: Revitalizing the Humanities in the Pacific Northwest through Community Engagement

to support the development and production of two new plays by Residency Five writers

Residency Five Development and Production Support

to support planning for a consortium of Pacific Northwestern liberal arts colleges

Pacific Northwest Five Consortium 

to support collaboration with Lewis and Clark, Reed, and Whitman Colleges, and the University of Puget Sound

matching endowment in support of educational programs in the Residential Colleges

Residential Colleges

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

to support consortial initiatives that expand training in inclusive pedagogy, collaborative instruction, and capacity building

Claremont Colleges Teaching and Learning Center

to support an initiative to strengthen the teaching of philosophy

Philosophy at Smaller Liberal Arts Colleges

cooperative program with Princeton University to improve the teaching of liberal studies in community colleges

Liberal Studies Teaching in Community Colleges

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" 