Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the integration of the arts across the curriculum

Arts Across the Curriculum

to support scholarly study groups between academics from the University of Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican scholars at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies

Center for Puerto Rican Studies

to continue support for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies’ Rooted & Relational initiative

to support substantial curriculum revision and enhancement

Curriculum Review

to support strengthening of the general education curriculum

Curriculum Reform

to strengthen its liberal-arts curriculum and faculty

Faculty/Curriculum Development

toward costs of organizing a workshop and conference on "Immigrants and Public Education in New York City"

Immigrants - Public Education

toward costs of the preparation of workshop proceedings and a conference on "Immigrants and Public Education in New York City"

for use in the current academic year as a President's discretionary fund

President's Discretionary Fund

to strengthen the liberal arts curriculum and faculty

Liberal Arts Program

to support a pilot program aimed at exposing students from historically underrepresented groups and others dedicated to an inclusive arts sector to careers in New York City arts organizations

Mellon Arts Fellowship Program

to assist in the development of a five-year programming and management plan for the performing arts

Performing Arts - Management Plan

to support the one-year renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

in support of an undergraduate fellowship program intended to increase the number of minority students enrolled in PhD programs in designated fields of the arts and sciences

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in the arts and sciences

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in fields of the arts and sciences

to support an undergraduate program for advanced research in the public humanities

The Mellon Public Humanities Scholars Program

to support the renewal of an undergraduate fellowship program

2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support the renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2009 Renewal

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2006 Renewal

to continue support for an undergraduate program for advanced research in the public humanities emphasizing social justice themes

The Mellon Public Humanities Scholars and Social Justice Program

to supplement the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - Two Additional Years of Support

for use by its Center for Puerto Rican Studies toward costs of organizing and making accessible the historical archives of the Puerto Rican migration to the United States, 1930-1993

Historical Archives of the Puerto Rican Migration to the United States, 1930-1993

for use by the Inter-University Program for Lattino Research at Hunter College to support its project "The Global Society and the Latino Community

Inter-University Program for Latino Research

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

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

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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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

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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" 