Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a pilot project to revitalize the general education curriculum

Experimental College

to support community-based arts education in underserved neighborhoods surrounding the college

Community-Based Arts Education Initiative

to support a new faculty hiring and curricular revitalization program

Mellon Faculty Diversity Initiative

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Humanities for Just Communities

to support three one-week technology training workshops

Educational Effectiveness

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies

to improve educational effectiveness and gain financial efficiencies

to advance educational effectiveness and financial efficiencies

Faculty Support

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

Fresh Combinations

to support a program of faculty development

Faculty Development

New President

to support the integration of digital resources into student and faculty teaching and scholarship

Academic Commons

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential campus life

Academic Community

to support upgrade of the administrative software used by the development and alumni offices

Alumni Programming Upgrade 

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

to support an integrated planning process for curricular change in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Integrated Curricular Planning

to support a program of community-based learning in the arts and humanities curriculum

Fresh Combinations - Curriculum

New Directions Fellowship (Gasper)

to support developing sustainable strategies for Web development and maintenance, and to provide a model for collaboration

Technological Innovation and Sustainability

to support curricular and co-curricular programming to engage students and the community in the arts and humanities

Arts and Urban Experience

to support interdisciplinary innovations in the general education curriculum

Labs for Liberal Arts

to support programs in the digital liberal arts

Developing Leadership in the Digital Liberal Arts

to support collaborative initiatives in the arts and humanities

Arts and Technology in a Cultural Metropolis

to support a research-intensive undergraduate curriculum in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences

Designing a Research-Intensive Undergraduate Curriculum in the Arts, Humanities, and Humanistic Social-Sciences

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

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 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

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

to support a final round of the Humanities Edge program, a partnership between Miami Dade College and Florida International University

Community College-University Partnerships

to support the development of a college-wide writing program

Morehouse College Writing Program and Center

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]

to support the second phase of the College Retirement Project

Mellon College Retirement Project - Phase II

to support a forum on the future of the liberal arts college

Future of the Liberal Arts College 

to support the opening of Smolny College, and the establishment of an international summer/winter term in human rights in Southern Africa

Foreign Study [Smolny College & IHRE]

to support activities that assist humanities students to complete their degrees at Miami Dade College, and transfer to Florida International University, and strengthen faculty and staff collaborations between the institutions

to continue programming that supports high school-to-college transitions, transfers from two- to four-year institutions, and college retention for Native American students

Native Pathways to College Phase III

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" 