Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the redesign of the college’s first-year studies program

New President

to support programs to strengthen the college’s educational and cultural ties with the city of Chicago

Chicago Programs

to strengthen the college’s educational and cultural ties with the city of Chicago

Fresh Combinations - Curriculum [Chicago Programs]

to support curricular collaborations among English department faculty (in partnership with Beloit and Knox Colleges)

Collaboration among English department faculty

to support programs to strengthen library services

Libraries 

to support partnership with area cultural institutions in addressing issues of race in Chicago

Humanities 2020

to support academic and institutional planning

Strategic Planning

Environmental Studies

to support the implementation and training for a collaborative information technology system

Collaborative Project  

to support continuation of its curricular initiatives in Chicago

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support curricular initiatives in music and writing

Presidential Innovation Fund

to support a program in Chinese language and literature

Chinese Language & Culture

to support curricular revision and enhancement

Islamic Studies Initiative

to support a faculty bridge appointment in theater

Faculty Bridge Appointments - Theater

to support restructuring of the first-year studies program

First-Year Studies Program

Mid-Career President: Study Abroad

to support a digital humanities project to preserve and document the history and material culture of Chicago architectural sites

Digital Cultural History and Public Education Project

to support a Humanities for All Times project

HUMAN: Humanities Understanding of the Machine-Assisted Nexus

to support the creation of an African American studies major and a tenure-track faculty position in African American history

Tenure-Track Faculty Appointment in African-American Studies

to support renovation of the Forest Theater’s historical lobby and the hiring of a theater executive director

Restoration of the Historic Forest Theater

for use by Harvard Forest in a program for forest microbiology

Harvard Forest - Forest Microbiology

Forest Ecology

toward costs of a study of forest ecology

for a program of research on forest ecology

for a program of research in forest ecology

toward costs of research on forest decline in Maine

Forest Research

toward costs of continuing a program of research in forest ecology

for use toward a program of research and training in forest ecology

Forest Ecology 

for use by its School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in a program of forest microbiology

Forest Microbiology

toward expenses of retaining a professional meteorologist to assist in developing a program of teaching and research in forest meteorology

Forest Hydrology

for use by its Resource Planning and Economics Department in a program of studies of long term management of the National Forest System

Forest Management

toward costs of exploring a program of research in forest-soil ecology

Forest-Soil Ecology

to expand a study of forest ecosystems in Puerto Rico

Forest Ecosystems - Puerto Rico

for use by its Economic Policy Department toward costs of an analysis of timber management policy and practices in the Tongass National Forest

Tongess Forest Timber Mgt.

to support the development of an international liberal arts college alliance

International Liberal Arts College Alliance

to support the American Indian Law Alliance’s expanded organizational capacity, historians, scientists, scholars, and Indigenous knowledge keepers necessary to educate the public about the need to preserve the sacred Onondaga Lake’s cultural and historical heritage

Haudenosaunee Maple Bay and Onondaga Lake Heritage Initiative

to support a collaboration with Lorain County Community College to establish connected Food Studies and racial justice curricula and partnerships with local organizations

Cultivating Community in the Great Lakes Region: Growing Food and Justice through the Engaged Humanities

to support basic ecosystems research on the tropical forests of the Americas

Tropical Forest Ecosystem Research

support of renovation project at Saranac Village, Young Life's northeastern camp

Renovation Project at Saronac Lake Camp

to support the continued professional growth and renewal of liberal arts college faculty members

Faculty Development and Renewal

for research on spruce decline on coastal Maine

Forest Decline

Opening Doors of Dialogue: Pursuing College/Community Engagements and Partnerships

to support a program expanding interdisciplinary humanities research, teaching practices, and public scholarship

Engaged Humanities

toward costs of a program of ecological research and training

Harvard Forest - Ecosystems Research

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" 