Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

New President

to support stipends for faculty, visiting artists, and scholars to teach in the May term

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 a comprehensive program of curricular and pedagogical reform

Engaging Tomorrow’s Students

to support faculty career enhancement and a review of the governance structures of the institution

Faculty Career Enhancement

to support curricular development in the humanities

Re-Centering the Humanities

to support writing and information literacy across the curriculum

Writing and Information Literacy

to support a restructuring of the writing program

Writing-Across-the-Curriculum

to assist the scholarly publication program of Wesleyan University Press

University Press Program

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

to enable the Connecticut-Trinity-Wesleyan Consortium to complete a language software database begun by the International Association for Learning Laboratories

Language Software Database - Connecticut-Trinity-Wesleyan Consortium

to support a program of curricular renewal

Ohio Wesleyan University Connection

to assist the scholarly publication program of the University of Illinois Press

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of The University of Illinois Press

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 planning and implementation of a statewide initiative that uses the arts and humanities to bring forward the voices of those directly impacted by the criminal legal system

Envisioning Justice: Illinois

to support the promotion of higher education in prison programs and partnerships in Southern Illinois

Illinois Coalition for Higher Education in Prison: Downstate Expansion of HEP Programs

for use by the University Archives in developing appraisal guidelines for scientific and technological materials

to support arts components of the Creative Campus Initiative administered by Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts

Creative Campus Arts Components

to support a final continuation to institutionalize dissertation completion fellowships in Latino/a studies at six university centers

Inter-University Program for Latino Research

to support a planning grant to conduct the necessary groundwork to establish Interseminars in the Humanities and Arts at Illinois.

Interseminars in the Humanities and the Arts

to support a research and capacity-development project between the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Neoliberalism, Gender and Curriculum in Transformation

for completion of a project with the University of Warsaw to establish an MBA program

Eastern European Program - University of Warsaw MBA Program

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support the operations of the university's Center for the Humanities

Center for Humanities

to support institutes on governance for presidents of public colleges and universities

Public University Governance 

to support an endowment for a program designed to engage students and faculty in discussion of timely ethical, political, and social issues

Senior President

to continue support for the Center for Prison Education

Center for Prison Education

to support the Center for Prison Education

to support an interdisciplinary leadership training initiative that will use the arts to develop antiracism practices

Antiracism Arts Initiative (AAI)

to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Current Grantee Prison Education Program

to renew support for dissertation completion fellowships in Latino studies centers at four universities

to support a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research

to support appointments of junior or intermediate faculty members in humanities or social sciences in advance of key retirements

2000 Funds

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies

to support a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular or administrative consolidation

Consolidation Program

to provide additional opportunities for the appointment of young non-tenured post-doctoral scholars in the humanities

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

Fresh Combinations

to support the environmental studies program

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

1980s Fund

toward costs of collecting data for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" study

College and Beyond

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Carceral Connecticut Project

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

in support of the design of digital application and selection programs

Paperless Application Project

to support the development of a Middle Eastern Studies program

Middle Eastern Studies

Emeritus Fellowships [Buel]

to support an endowment for a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

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" 