Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support research on determinants of the degree of civic engagement among college graduates

Research on Civic Engagement

for use, in collaboration with Carleton College, to support improvements in foreign language teaching by using technology

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology  

to support the launch of the Center for Global Citizenship

New President

to support substantial curricular revision and enhancement

Institute for Global Citizenship

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Mississippi River Watershed

to support a Native and Indigenous studies initiative

Native and Indigenous Initiative

to support a fine arts performance and exhibit series as well as global citizenship projects

Mid-Career President: Fine Arts & Global Citizenship

to support faculty and curricular development

Creating Lifelong Learners: Linking Immersive Experiences to the Liberal Arts Foundation

toward costs of a study of the history and performance of historically Black private colleges in the US since the mid-1950s

Stand and Prosper

to permit the completion of a study of the history and academic performance of historically Black private colleges in the US since 1836

History & Performance of HBCUs

to support a program of faculty development

Faculty Development

in support of four postdoctoral fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to improve educational effectiveness and gain financial efficiencies through the use of electronic resources

Educational Effectiveness

to support faculty development and curricular initiatives in the humanities and arts

Making Meaning

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

Fresh Combinations

to support faculty members at various stages of the professorial life cycle

Environmental Studies

to support president-led initiatives geared to influence future directions

Presidential Leadership

to support postdoctoral fellowship programs

to support the development of a research agenda on competition and cooperation in higher education

Competition and Cooperation

to support a planning process for the collaboration with the Early American centers in Philadelphia

Early American Centers

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to endow a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

to support the appointment of new junior or intermediate faculty members in the humanities and social sciences in advance of faculty retirements

Fresh Combinations - Faculty

to support research projects on higher education and a conference series

Higher Education Forum 

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Professor Holly Barcus

New Directions Fellowship (Barcus)

in support of research projects on higher education and a conference series

Economics of Higher Education

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

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to strengthen the relationship between the academic and residential programs

Academic Community - Co-Curricular Programs

to support strategic planning initiatives

Senior President - Strategic Planning Initiatives

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support renewed participation in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

to support curricular innovation through interdepartmental concentrations

Global Citizenships and Curricular Innovation

to support opportunities for teaching and scholarship through development of the digital humanities

Collaborative Planning for the Digital Humanities 

to support faculty development through digital approaches to scholarship, pedagogy, and multimodal writing instruction

The Liberal Arts in a Digital Age

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 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

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" 