Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to aid in the renovation and equipping of its Nurses' Education and Residence Building in New York City to house the Skidmore College nursing program at New York University Medical Center

Renovation of the Nurses' Education and Residence Building

to support a new general education curriculum and two faculty positions

Strengthening Diversity and Internationalism in Skidmore College's New General Education Curriculum

to support strengthening the link between the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and Skidmore’s curriculum

Tang Teaching Museum

to support diversity and access to Skidmore's museum collections

Diversity, Access, and Museum Collections

toward costs of planning for more effective and efficient use of technology to enhance the curriculum

Curriculum Technology

to support a program of faculty development

Faculty Development

to support interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate the arts, humanities, sciences, and technology

Interdisciplinary Visualization

to support an environmental studies program

Environmental Studies

Faculty Support

to support the environmental studies program

to support on-campus programming efforts to increase the retention of first- and second-year students

New President

to support efforts to strengthen partnerships between faculty and student affairs professionals

Academic Community

to support the development of new courses for the law and society program, and for a review of advising and career development services

Presidential Discretionary Fund

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support faculty bridge appointments in anticipation of retirements

Faculty Bridge Appointments

to support substantial curricular revision and enhancement

First-Year Experience

Faculty Career Enhancement 

to improve foreign language teaching through the use of technology

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology

to support community-based documentary studies

MDOCS Community Collaborative Documentary Projects

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Africana Studies and the Humanities

to support a planning grant for campus art museum and library collaboration

Campus Library and Museum Collaboration

to support interdisciplinary teaching and learning through the use of museum exhibitions

Teaching, Learning and Museum Exhibitions

to support an initiative to connect students’ academic experiences to community-based learning through internships and collaborative projects

Mid-Career President: High-Impact Experiences

to support a new faculty center for teaching, learning, and leadership

Senior President - Cooperative Leadership in Liberal Learning and Teaching

to support an initiative to advance visual literacy and communication

Project VIS - Enhancing Visual Communication and Understanding Through Creative Pedagogy and Integrative Learning

to support faculty career enhancement in collaboration with Colgate University and Skidmore and Union Colleges

to support cross-institutional curricular collaboration with Babson College and the Olin College of Engineering

The Three College Collaboration

to support planning for the collaborative work of the "New York Six" consortium, comprised of Hamilton, Hobart and William Smith, Skidmore and Union Colleges, and Colgate and St. Lawrence Universities

New York Six Consortium

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

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" 