Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support: expanding the scope of the Modern Language Association of America International Bibliography to include publications about the teaching of language, writing, and literature at the college level; improving coverage of scholarship about Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish languages and literatures; and planning, in consultation with the JSTOR staff and scholars in the field, for the selection of modern language and literature journals that should be included in the next phase of JSTOR

MLA International Bibliography

to support the creation of a JSTOR collection of modern language and literature journals

JSTOR Modern Language and Literature Journals

to support the Language Enrollment Census

Language Enrollment Census

to support efforts to improve the teaching of foreign languages in American universities

Foreign Language Teaching

to support programming to recruit and retain underserved students within language and literature programs

Pathways to Language and Literature Study

to develop a machine-readable thesaurus for language, literature, and linguistics

Machine-Readable Thesaurus

to support an initiative in language and literature graduate programs designed to renew the curriculum, strengthen pedagogical training, and prepare students for a range of non-academic as well as academic careers

Alt Ac Careers - Connected Academies

for development of a machine readable thesaurus for languages, literatures, and linguistics

for a conference on the teaching of English in American schools, colleges, and universities

English Teaching Conference

to support development of a Web-based publication and communications platform for use by scholarly society members

MLA Commons

to support the planning of a software system to enable professional networking, online collaboration, and digital publication across scholarly societies

Humanities Commons

to support the development and implementation of an organizational, technical, and business plan for Humanities Commons

Humanities Commons - Phase III

to support development of an online network that would enable collaborative research and publication within and across scholarly societies

Humanities Commons - Phase II

to support the development of a book on electronic textual editing for scholarly publications

Guide to Electronic Textual Editing 

to support a series of summer institutes in developmental writing pedagogy for access-oriented institutions

Writing Pedagogy at Access-Oriented Institutions

to develop its computer capabilities and share them with other scholarly organizations

Computer Capabilities

for a program to increase nonacademic career opportunities for humanists with PhD degrees

Career Development

to explore non-academic employment opportunities for humanities PhDs

Non-Academic Careers

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

Careers for Humanists

to support the publication of scholarly monographs in the humanities

Monographs Initiative - Modern Languages 

toward support of its National Committee for Russian Language Study

Russian Language Study

to assist a delegation of American university presidents to attend the sixth quinquennial general conference of the International Association in Moscow in 1975

International Association Conference

for use by the Association of National Libraries of Latin America (La Asociacion de Bibliotecas Nacionales de lberoamerica) toward costs of a program to preserve, digitize, and make accessible 19th-century newspapers held by national libraries in Latin America

Association of National Libraries in Latin America - 19th Century Newspapers Project

to broaden its information services to the field

toward costs of the Coalition for the Advancement of Foreign Languages and International Studies

Coalition for the Advancement of Foreign Languages and International Studies

for use by the Association of College and Research Libraries toward costs of a project to collect data on libraries in historically black colleges and universities

Association of College and Research Libraries - Black College Library Data

to support development of Native American and Indigenous language teaching pedagogies and digital resources

Native American Language Center

to support planning for a consortium-wide foreign-language teaching and learning initiative

Language Acquisition in Appalachia

to support the continuation of the annual Association of North American Graduate Programs in the Conservation of Cultural Property student conference

Association of North American Graduate Programs in the Conservation of Cultural Property (ANAGPIC)

to support capacity building for the Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas

APOYOnline – Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas 

to support a study of language capacity and training needs in the US

Teaching Foreign Language

for use, in collaboration with the National and University Library of Iceland and the University of Iceland, in support of the development of a modern Icelandic language course

Icelandic Language Course 

in support of training and research in the history of modern technology

History of Modern Technology 

toward costs of developing a "foreign language across the curriculum" program to expand and improve the teaching of the major modern foreign languages

Foreign Language Instruction - Phase I

toward transitional costs in the restructuring of the Association

One-Time Transitional Costs and Expansion of Washington-Based Staff

towards the costs of the AAU/ARL Research Libraries Project

Association of American Universities/American Research Libraries Project

in support of the International Association of Scholarly Publishers

International Association of Scholarly Publishers

to support the AAU/ARL Research Libraries Project

to support an initiative to improve the teaching and learning of modern foreign languages

Foreign Language Instruction - Phase II

to support costs associated with the American Economic Association Summer Program

American Economic Association Summer Program

in support of the public television series "America by Design"

America by Design

toward costs of the Bosphorus University Summer Program for Turkish Language Study

Turkish Language Study

to support the further development of digital tools for the study of early modern texts

Curation of Early Modern English Texts

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of Africa, Latin America, and other areas

Plants Initiative

to support the Native Language Program to implement a common Native language preservation strategy with a focus on capacity building at 37 tribal colleges

Native Language Program

to support research for a Supplementary Historical Dictionary of Modern English by the Yale University Press

Supplementary Historical Dictionary of Modern English

for use by the A CLS to plan a program of assistance to librarians in historically black colleges and universities

Association of College and Research Libraries - Black Colleges

to support the Early Modern Studies Institute

Early Modern Studies Institute 

to support professional associations in the fields of population and forced migration

Travel Fellowships Program

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

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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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" 