Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a program of curricular renewal

Ohio Wesleyan University Connection

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]

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

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support faculty and curricular development

Faculty Development

Faculty Support

to support initiatives to incorporate interdisciplinarity into the curriculum

Enhancing Interdisciplinarity

Course Connections

to support institutional and curricular review, and faculty development workshops, to promote diversity and inclusion

Committing to Diversity

to assist the scholarly publication program of Wesleyan University Press

University Press Program

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of Wesleyan University Press

to enable the Connecticut-Trinity-Wesleyan Consortium to complete a language software database begun by the International Association for Learning Laboratories

Language Software Database - Connecticut-Trinity-Wesleyan Consortium

to support the creation of pathways to campus learning for formerly incarcerated students and a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies degree program at the Ohio Reformatory for Women

Liberation At the Margins Collective: Research, Teaching and Learning in Community at the Ohio Reformatory for Women

to support community engagement opportunities that integrate the arts into the university community and beyond

Community Engagement in the Arts and Arts Education

to support arts components of the Creative Campus Initiative administered by Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts

Creative Campus Arts Components

to support the operations of the university's Center for the Humanities

Center for Humanities

to support the Department of African American and African Studies

Program Support

to support the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Divided Community Project

to support a project on civic engagement, citizenship, and voting rights

Native Americans and African Americans in and out of the US Body Politic

Curatorial Support

to support the selection, documentation, and digitization of images to be incorporated into ArtSTOR’s Image Gallery

Southeast Asian Art  

to support the rebuilding and expansion of the Department of African American and African Studies

Rebuilding Black Studies

Emeritus Fellowships [Benedict]

to support an ecological research and training program led by a junior faculty scientist

Junior Faculty - Grottoli 

to support continued work on the selection, documentation, and digitization of images of Asian art and architecture to be incorporated in ARTstor’s Image Gallery

Southeast Asian Art

for use by the Department of Dance toward costs of completing a software program for labanotation

Laban Dance Notation Software

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Language, Politics, and Human Expression in South Asia and the Balkans: Comparative Perspectives"

Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Language, Politics, and Human Expression

to support an endowment for a program designed to engage students and faculty in discussion of timely ethical, political, and social issues

Senior President

to continue support for the Center for Prison Education

Center for Prison Education

to support the Center for Prison Education

to support an interdisciplinary leadership training initiative that will use the arts to develop antiracism practices

Antiracism Arts Initiative (AAI)

to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Current Grantee Prison Education Program

to support a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research

to support appointments of junior or intermediate faculty members in humanities or social sciences in advance of key retirements

2000 Funds

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies

to support a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular or administrative consolidation

Consolidation Program

to provide additional opportunities for the appointment of young non-tenured post-doctoral scholars in the humanities

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

Fresh Combinations

to support the environmental studies program

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

1980s Fund

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Carceral Connecticut Project

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

College and Beyond

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

in support of the design of digital application and selection programs

Paperless Application Project

to support the development of a Middle Eastern Studies program

Middle Eastern Studies

Emeritus Fellowships [Buel]

to support an endowment for a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

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" 