Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the Pathways to College program

Pathways to College Program

to support a planning symposium on the future of the liberal arts college library

Liberal Arts College Library

to support a learning commons in the college's Johnson Library

Learning Commons

to assist presidents of liberal arts and historically black colleges to meet the goals they have set for their respective institutions

Senior Presidential Leadership

to support an assessment of campus administrative systems

New President

to support language instruction in the humanities and sciences

Language Learning

to support substantial curricular revision and enhancement in the area of foreign language study

World Languages

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

Fresh Combinations

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular and administrative consolidation

Consolidation Program

toward costs of improving foreign language instruction and achieving greater cost-effectiveness

Educational Effectiveness

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support new curricular initiatives for undergraduate students

Division II Restructuring

to support the development of a plan to restructure Division II work

Fresh Combinations - Curriculum

to support institutional and faculty renewal

Bridge to Retirement

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

Faculty/Curricular Renewal

to support planning for a learning commons

Planning for a Learning Commons

Bridge to Retirement - Facilitating Institutional Change

to establish the New Hampshire Humanities Collaborative to support the transfer of community college students in the humanities to the university, and to develop a humanities curriculum focused on grand challenges

New Hampshire Humanities Collaborative

to continue support for the New Hampshire Humanities Collaborative

to support the Department of Women's and Gender Studies

Program Support

toward costs of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research

toward costs of a program of ecological research and training

to support a program of public humanities institutes to train humanities scholars to work in the public realm

Summer Boot Camps in Public Humanities

in support of ecological research and training

Long-Term Ecological Research in Latin America

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

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

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

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" 