Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the strengthening of students’ academic experiences outside the classroom

Civic Learning & Engagement

to support the integration of civic engagement and service learning opportunities into the humanities curriculum

to support the design of new models of foreign study for undergraduate students

Foreign Study

to support expansion of an international program and the strengthening of a democracy studies minor

to develop a case study to present at the 2001 Best Practices Seminar of the Global Partners Project

Global Partners

to support the planning of a center for inclusive teaching and learning that addresses the needs of students with learning disabilities

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

to support international student exchange

to support new curricular initiatives for undergraduate students

SlackWater Center

New Presidents

New President

to support initiatives to diversify academic leadership, in partnership with Morgan State University and the University of Maryland at College Park

Breaking the M.O.L.D. (Maryland Opportunities for Leadership Development) for Arts and Humanities Faculty

toward costs of humanities summer institutes for fine-arts teachers in Maryland high schools

Summer Institutes

to support a research incubator for The 1856 Project, an initiative dedicated to investigating the legacy of slavery at the University of Maryland and engaging in reparative archives work

The 1856 Project

to support an initiative promoting engaged citizenship in the humanistic disciplines

Revitalizing William and Mary's Commitment to Citizen Scholars

to support comparative case studies of digital humanities projects in an investigation of sustainability strategies

Strategies for Sustaining Digital Scholarship

to support an integrated research and training model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American studies

Digital Humanities and African American Studies

to support membership in the Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions program

Emeriti Incentive Award

to support the development of optical character recognition tools and services for Arabic scripts

Optical Character Recognition of Arabic Texts

to support scalable development of digital infrastructure and tools for Islamicate digital humanities

Optical Character Recognition of Arabic Texts: Phase II

to continue support for the development of optical character recognition tools and services for Arabic scripts

Bridge Funding for Optical Character Recognition of Arabic Texts

to support the Department of African American Studies

Program Support

to support the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

to support the extension of LangNet, a Web-based resource for the use of teachers of Spanish and heritage Spanish-speaking students

The National Foreign Language Center

to support an integrated research and pedagogical model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American studies

African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative - Phase II

to continue support for an integrated research and pedagogical model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American Studies

African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative - Phase III

to support a study to assess the value for scholarly use of digital assets generated in contemporary book publishing

Books.Files: Assessing Digital Assets in the Book Industry for Scholarly Use

toward costs of programs of research on coastal processes

Coastal Research 

to provide consultation, when requested, to the Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors

M. Feldstein Project

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

to support planning for the second phase of a project to apply computational linguistics techniques to the creation of metadata

Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building

in support of a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Srinivas 

to support the development of plans for implementing automated auditing technologies in two digital preservation archives

Preservation Archives

to support the application of computer forensics in the preservation of born-digital archives in cultural heritage institutions

Born Digital Archive in Cultural Heritage Institutions 

for use by its Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality to assess research needs in the area of gender and population policy

Feminist Demography

to support the preservation of web-based resources collected through social media platforms

Documenting the Now: Phase 2

to support the further development of computational linguistic techniques for identifying and extracting metadata from text sources

Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building 

in support of research on gender and population policy

Research on Gender and Population Policy - Demography Center

to support the archival collection at the David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, and a monument to the late artist and art historian

Critical Collections and Monument to David C. Driskell

to support the new president’s plan to identify the college’s major educational assets and begin a program of faculty development

Discretionary Support

to support a research seminar entitled Race/Ethnicity and Gender Identity in a Shifting Cultural, and Racial Climate:  African/Black Diaspora Academic and Public Discourse

African/Black Diaspora Research Seminar

to support a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Shariff

to support rethinking Asian American issues on campus in a global, diasporic, and collaborative framework through community-engaged, public-facing scholarship and teaching through the Global Asias Initiative

Global Asias Initiative: Reframing Asian American Studies and Asian Studies at UMBC 

to support collaboration with community partners to develop a national model for engaging urban communities in public humanities teaching and research

Strengthening UMBC's Public Humanities Infrastructure: The Baltimore Field School

toward costs of editing the papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

to support a faculty development project focused on the St. John’s mathematics curriculum, in collaboration with St. John’s College, Santa Fe, and St.Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, California)

Faculty Career Enhancement 

in support of the editorial and research costs of The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

"The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe"

to support capacity building for The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a program of Charm City Cultural Cultivation, with staff costs, fundraising consulting capacities, facilities management and professional fees

The Last Resort 

tor use by the Center for Environmental Studies to further collaboration of Appalachian colleges

Center for Environmental Science 

to support development of an interdisciplinary, international curriculum and engaged student learning

Cross-College Collaboration 

to provide a final round of support for a Baltimore-based consortium dedicated to mentoring diverse cohorts of undergraduate students in the science associated with art conservation

Baltimore SCIART Fellowship

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" 