Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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]

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

College and Beyond

to support the planning of a collaborative project among head librarians at Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Occidental, Swarthmore, and Wellesley Colleges and the Atlanta University Center institutions that would attract students from diverse backgrounds to the library profession

Minority Librarian Fellowship

to achieve a more suitable faculty-student ratio in the College of Arts and Sciences, and to meet important curricular goals

Educational Effectiveness

for use by its museum to strengthen the educational role of collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

for use by its art museum to enhance the educational role of the collections and programs

to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the Allen Memorial Art Museum's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Endowment

to support a documentary film exploring the work of Toni Morrison

The Foreigner's Home Documentary Film

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 a collaborative program that would strengthen academic libraries in collaboration with Johnson C. Smith University, Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc., and Occidental, Saint Augustine’s Swarthmore, and Wellesley Colleges

Recruiting to the Library Profession III  

to support a program of faculty development

Faculty Development

to support the environmental studies program

Environmental Studies

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to improve educational effectiveness and gain financial efficiencies

New President

Faculty Support

to support curricular revision and enhancement through programs focused on the connected learning experience

Connected Learning

Emeritus Fellowships 

to support the American Democracy project

American Democracy

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

Fresh Combinations

to strengthen the international dimension of its curriculum

Senior President

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

1980s Fund

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

2000 Funds

to endow a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

for undergraduate research on environmental and natural-resource topics

Student Environmental Research

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

to support bridge positions that will enable faculty realignment and curricular revision in key departments

Faculty Bridge Funding

Emeritus Fellowships [Crawford]

Emeritus Fellowships [Young]

to support undergraduate work with volunteers of the World Library Partnership designing literacy programs in South Africa

World Library Partnership 

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

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

to support a presidential discretionary fund

New President - Discretionary Fund

in support of an undergraduate fellowship program intended to increase the number of minority students enrolled in PhD programs in designated fields of the arts and sciences

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in the arts and sciences

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs infields of the arts and sciences

to support collaborations between campus art museums and libraries

Campus Museum and Library Collaboration

to support planning for the Toni Morrison Center for the Humanities

Toni Morrison Center for Humanities

to support faculty career enhancement programs and student-faculty collaborative research

Supporting and Building the Faculty

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Renewal

to support the teaching of written and oral communication

Teaching of Written and Oral Communication

to support a collaborative program to recruit undergraduate students to the library profession

Recruiting to the Library Profession II 

to support the renewal of an undergraduate fellowship program

2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program

Expanding and Refining the Liberal Arts Experience

to support international humanities teaching and research through creation and endowment of a center for the study of foreign languages and international cultures

Center for Foreign Languages and International Cultures

to support the renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2009 Renewal

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2006 Renewal

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" 