Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the establishment of a Humanities and Social Sciences Institute at Morgan State University

Benjamin Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute

to support public exhibitions of place-based research, art, and design projects and community programming

Morgannale

to support the creation of a national collective of black, queer faculty committed to cultivating the intellectual and artistic pursuits of the next generation of black, queer scholar-activists

Black Queer...Everything

to support staffing at Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm, a summer course, leadership training on food heritage and other programming  

Art of Urban Ag:  Growing an Art of Urban Ag Academy 

to support the development of an undergraduate minor concentration in African American and African Diaspora Studies

African American Studies Minor Concentration

to renew support for undergraduate, graduate, and faculty research programs sponsored by the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Sciences Institute

The Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Sciences Institute

to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Emergency Student Support in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

to support initiatives to diversify academic leadership, in partnership with Morgan State University and the University of Maryland at College Park

Breaking the M.O.L.D. (Maryland Opportunities for Leadership Development) for Arts and Humanities Faculty

Faulkner Morgan Archive

to continue to support general operations for the New Mexico State University Art Museum

General Operating Support: New Mexico State University Art Museum

to support transfer students in the humanities who are transitioning from Perimeter College to Georgia State University

Community College-University Partnerships

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies by the Louisiana State University Press

University Press Program

to support an enhanced program of annual data collection and analysis on the state of university press publishing

Measuring the State of Scholarly Publishing 

toward costs of library automation and expanded access to libraries in South Africa’s Free State province

Free State Libraries & Information Consortium

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

Cataloguing Project

to support general operations at the New Mexico State University Art Museum

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support a collaboration between the Stellenbosch University Museum and the Michigan State University Museum on the Ubuntu Dialogues project

Ubuntu Dialogues

to establish a consortium of Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship programs at five California State University campuses

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

toward costs of the preservation of the records of New York's colonial and state governments

Colonial/State Records Preservation

to support projects at Michigan State University and at Texas A&M University which measure the costs and pedagogic effectiveness of using network technology in natural sciences and psychology instruction

Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach

to support the Turning Graduates Into Instructors Initiative

Turning Graduates into Instructors Adams State University Prison Education Program

to support collaborative academic and institutional structures that enable current and formerly incarcerated students to complete AA and BA programs accredited by colleges and universities in the state of New York

Expanding Access to Higher Education in New York State Prisons

to extend its NEXA Program to other campuses of the California State University and College system

NEXA Program

to continue to support collaborative academic research and the expansion of institutional structures that enable current and formerly incarcerated students to complete AA and BA programs accredited by colleges and universities in the state of New York

Expanding Access to Higher Education in New York State Prisons II

to support the development and expansion of prison education and reentry initiatives, in collaboration with the City University of New York 

to support initiatives that will more deeply integrate the performing arts in the research and pedagogical missions of the university

We Are ... A Transdisciplinary Exploration of the Performing Arts at Penn State

to support a planning effort to advance the stewardship and use of data related to state and territorial archives

State and Territorial Archive Data Aggregation Planning Grant

for use by the State University of New York at Buffalo toward a program of research and training in plant ecology

Plant Ecology 

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

State Environmental Programs

to support a study of how university presses could increase the sales of scholarly publications directly to consumers

University Press Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Research

to augment The Ricciardi Family Exhibition Fund, an endowment in honor of Lawrence R. Ricciardi, on the occasion of his retirement from the Foundation's Board of Trustees

Exhibitions Endowment

matching grant to strengthen the capacity to catalogue its collections

Collection Cataloguing

for Library's physical improvement program

Renovation Costs

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Conservation Endowment

in partial support of permanent curatorial and technical assistance in its Department of Drawings, and toward expenses of preparing two major catalogues for publication

Department of Drawings

matching grant toward costs of improving the care and management of library collections

Specialized Research Centers/Libraries

matching endowment in support of research and publication of substantial scholarly quality

Art Museum Publication Program

for affiliation with the Research Libraries Information Network

Research Libraries Information Network

matching endowment in support of core functions

Independent Research Libraries Program

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001, and to contribute to its insurance costs

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to establish "The Andrew W. Mellon Fund," the income to be used to facilitate use of the Library's collections by qualified scholars

The Andrew W. Mellon Fund

toward costs of collecting data on the finances of independent research libraries

Independent Research Libraries - Financial Data

to endow the position of associate curator of drawings and prints

Curatorial Endowment - Prints and Drawings

to support staff training and development initiatives

Professional Development and Training Program

to endow the position of curator of modern and contemporary drawings

Curatorial Endowment - Modern and Contemporary Drawings

to endow the Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Curatorial Endowment - Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

to support specific initiatives to strengthen the care of, and improve access to, research collections

Strengthening Care and Access to Research Collections

to support the development and expansion of prison education and reentry initiatives, in collaboration with the State University of New York

for a project on an integrated approach to toxic-substances policy, and for a study of state park systems

State Park Systems

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" 