Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the institutional renewal and reimagining of the university’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

Howard University Library Renewal Initiative

Howard University Faculty Development Initiative

to support the assessment, conservation, cataloguing, and digitization of the Howard University Gallery of Art collections

Critical Collections

to continue support for the assessment, conservation, cataloguing, and digitization of the Howard University Gallery of Art collections

to support a collaboration between Howard and Georgetown Universities to establish a joint center in health humanities grounded in the community needs of Washington, DC

Medical Humanities Initiative

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Just Futures Initiative: Social Justice Consortium 

for a University commission on enhancing institutional effectiveness

Institutional Effectiveness

to support planning for renewal of the university’s Founders Library and Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

Library Renewal

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular and administrative consolidation

Consolidation Program 

for use by its College of Medicine in support of research projects in reproductive biology

Reproductive Biology

to support a self-study program of its School of Business and Public Administration

Self-Study

in support of the Honors Program in the College of Liberal Arts

Honors Program

for the Graduate Expository Writing Program

Writing Program

for support of its programs in the humanities at the graduate level

Humanities Programs

in support of a three-month residency in South Africa

South African Residency

to support the first phase of the establishment of the Office of Faculty Development

Faculty Development Program

to strengthen the undergraduate programs in its Division of the Humanities

Undergraduate Humanities Programs

to establish a revolving loan fund at its College of Medicine for the recruitment of new faculty, and to encourage research activities on the part of selected faculty members

Medical School Faculty

Honors Program Endowment

to assist the College of Liberal Arts to strengthen its Humanities Division through a comprehensive program of faculty and curricular development

Humanities Faculty/Curriculum

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Amy Yeboah

New Directions Fellowship (Yeboah)

to establish a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

toward costs of establishing a noncirculating reference library and reading room at its Center for International Affairs

Minority Representation - International Affairs

to enable the School of Business and Public Administration to strengthen a Master's degree program in Business and Public Administration

Business/Public Administration Programs

in support of faculty and staff training in the College of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Administrative Reorganization

to support curricular enhancement activities

Institution Building - Interdisciplinary Courses

for use by its School of Religion toward costs of planning faculty and curricular development

Divinity School Faculty/Curriculum/Library

to support a research project to document African- American influence and involvement in the South African struggle against racial discrimination

Research on US Anti-Apartheid Struggle

to support the completion of a research project to document the influence and involvement of African Americans in the South African struggle against racial discrimination

South African Research and Archival Project 2

to support the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in collection processing, digitization, and the planning/development of a conservation lab

Ethnic Studies Futures: Africana Studies and African American Studies

to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Emergency Student Support in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

to support a multiyear undergraduate internship pilot program to create pathways to careers in the arts for students from Howard University

Undergraduate Museum Internship Program

to support a program at Princeton University Library to study acquisitions policy, retrain Library staff, and improve access to the Library's resources

University Library

in support of its University Professors Program

University Professors Program

to support the scholarly publication program of Indiana University Press

University Press Program

to assist the scholarly publication program of Yale University Press

to assist the scholarly publication program of Wesleyan University Press

to assist the scholarly publication program of Stanford University Press

to assist the scholarly publication program of Harvard University Press

to assist the scholarly publication program of Columbia University Press

to assist the scholarly publication program of Princeton University Press

to assist the scholarly publication program of Cornell University Press

to assist the scholarly publication program of McGill-Queens University Press

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of Yale University Press

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of Wesleyan University Press

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of Princeton University Press

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of Cornell University Press

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of Stanford University Press

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of Columbia University Press

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" 