Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to strengthen the role of the library on liberal arts college campuses

Libraries

to support strengthening selected aspects of its programs

Presidential Leadership

to support planning for the development and expansion of Web use among liberal arts colleges

Web Integration & Sustainability Projects 

to improve educational effectiveness through the use of technology

Educational Effectiveness

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Faculty Support

to support the cost-effective use of technology  in teaching

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

Fresh Combinations

to support a program of faculty development

Faculty Development

to support an environmental studies program

Environmental Studies

to support faculty bridge appointments in anticipation of retirements

Faculty Retirement

in support of efforts to manage electronic scholarly resources available to faculty and students

Electronic Scholarly Resources

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

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

Hewlett-Mellon Program

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

Centers of Excellence

to support scholarly activities of the faculty and research opportunities for students

Faculty & Student Research

to support planning for the Orbis-Cascade Consortium

Orbis-Cascade Consortium  

Faculty Career Enhancement 

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

Technological Innovation and Sustainability

to support collaborative programs in dance and the creation of a dance major

Undergraduate Center for Dance

to support planning for a teaching and learning center

Teaching and Learning Center

to support faculty sabbatical leaves while additional funds are raised to sustain the program

Educational Effectiveness: Pressing Needs

to support summer research for faculty in the humanities and for biology students

Mid-Career President: Summer Research

to support faculty career enhancement programs

Faculty Career Enhancement - Collaborative Paid Leaves

to support curricular and pedagogical revisions to the first-year humanities course

Creating a New Unified Introductory Humanities Course

to support a project to develop environmental humanities curriculum, courses, and scholarship centered on environmental justice and the literary imagination

Generative Literature: Social Justice and the Environmental Imagination

to support integration of digital resources in undergraduate student research through collaboration among librarians, instructional technologists, faculty, and students

From Data to Scholarship: Transforming Undergraduate Student Research in the Digital Age

to support an initiative of the Northwest Five Consortium to build capacity for community-engaged learning in partnership with civic, cultural, educational, and government agencies and institutions, in collaboration with Lewis & Clark and Reed Colleges, the University of Puget Sound, and Willamette University

Northwest Five Consortium: Revitalizing the Humanities in the Pacific Northwest through Community Engagement

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

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

to continue support for graduate degree completion fellowships for Tribal College and University faculty

Tribal College Faculty Development Initiative

Artists as Catalysts

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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" 