Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to continue to support general operations for the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

General Operating Support: Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

to support planning and piloting of an international studies program

Spelman College International Studies Program

to support general operations at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

Art Museum Futures Fund

to help the faculty and administration encourage women's growing career aspirations

Mellon-Spelman Career Development Program

to prepare female mathematicians for doctoral programs, in collaboration with Bryn Mawr College

Woman in Math 

to support a collaborative faculty development program with Bennett College that would strengthen the women’s studies program at both campuses

Faculty Development Program 

to support a collaborative faculty development program with Bennett College that would strengthen the women’s studies programs at both campuses

to support a social justice scholars residential program

Social Justice Living-Learning Residential Program

to support the dissemination of results of a survey of archival and library materials at 80 historically black colleges and universities

Archival Survey Project 

to support the expansion of the Archives Institute to include the training of archival assistants at selected historically black colleges and universities

HBCU Archives Institute

matching endowment for a Fund for Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the arts and sciences

Black Colleges Program

to strengthen the teaching of arts and humanities

to support travel for senior faculty members to strengthen existing ties with Mangosuthu Technikon in South Africa

Faculty Exchange

to support the cost-effective use of technology in teaching

Educational Effectiveness

Faculty Support

New President

Operating Support

to support a program that would enhance graduate education for women in mathematics

Edge Program 

to support the electronic portfolio project

Electronic Portfolio 

to support an internal review of the general education curriculum

Curriculum Review

to support "Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education: a Transition Program for Women in the Mathematical Sciences"

Edge Program

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential life

Academic Community 

to support a transition program for women in mathematics

EDGE Program

to support a pilot undergraduate program in curatorial studies

Undergraduate Curatorial Curriculum

Student Success Center

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

to support the development and institutionalization of curatorial studies

Curatorial Studies Concentration

to support planning to increase undergraduate student research opportunities

Undergraduate Research Program

to support faculty positions in the Computer and Information Science department and the Africans in the Diaspora and the World program

Centers of Excellence

to support a review of its student services program

Student Services Program 

to complete a strategic plan designed to provide the institution with a working document to guide decisions over the next decade

Institution Building - Strategic Planning

to strengthen the office of institutional research

Institution Building - Institutional Research

to support the implementation of an undergraduate research program as part of a comprehensive curricular reform

Undergraduate Research Program Implementation

to support curricular revision and enhancement

Interdisciplinary and Connected Learning

to support five UNCF/Mellon fellows from Dillard and Xavier Universities directly affected by Hurricane Katrina

Katrina - New Orleans Response

to support current efforts to enhance the orientation program

Academic Community - Inter-Departmental Collaborations 

toward costs of a transition program for women in the mathematical sciences

Women in Mathematics [EDGE Program]

to strengthen the relationship between the academic and residential programs

Academic Community - Inter-Departmental Collaborations

to support a pilot cooperative education program

Mid-Career President: Cooperative Education

to support the development of a strategic plan for the Women’s Research and Resource Center

Women's Research and Resource Center 

to support strengthening selected aspects of its programs

Institution Building - New Presidents/Review

to establish an institute for the study of gender and sexuality

Institute for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

to support community-based archives in historic black towns and settlements

Community Archives of Historic Black Towns and Settlements

to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Emergency Student Support in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

to support the creation and touring of Simone Leigh's representation of the United States for the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in collaboration with Spelman College

Simone Leigh at the Venice Biennale

to support a fellowship program in collaboration with Agnes Scott College, Clark Atlanta University, Dillard University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College, for advanced graduate students at Emory to teach at these institutions

Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program 

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

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" 