Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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 a project on civic engagement, citizenship, and voting rights

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

Divided Community Project

to support the Department of African American and African Studies

Program Support

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

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

Rebuilding Black Studies

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

Southeast Asian Art

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

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

Curatorial Support

Emeritus Fellowships [Benedict]

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]

to continue to support general operations for the New Mexico State University Art Museum

General Operating Support: New Mexico State University Art Museum

to support an enhanced program of annual data collection and analysis on the state of university press publishing

Measuring the State of Scholarly Publishing 

toward costs of library automation and expanded access to libraries in South Africa’s Free State province

Free State Libraries & Information Consortium

to support initiatives that will more deeply integrate the performing arts in the research and pedagogical missions of the university

We Are ... A Transdisciplinary Exploration of the Performing Arts at Penn State

to support collaborative academic and institutional structures that enable current and formerly incarcerated students to complete AA and BA programs accredited by colleges and universities in the state of New York

Expanding Access to Higher Education in New York State Prisons

to support transfer students in the humanities who are transitioning from Perimeter College to Georgia State University

Community College-University Partnerships

to continue to support collaborative academic research and the expansion of institutional structures that enable current and formerly incarcerated students to complete AA and BA programs accredited by colleges and universities in the state of New York

Expanding Access to Higher Education in New York State Prisons II

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

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support the development and expansion of prison education and reentry initiatives, in collaboration with the City University of New York 

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies by the Louisiana State University Press

University Press Program

for use by the State University of New York at Buffalo toward a program of research and training in plant ecology

Plant Ecology 

to support language pedagogy collaborations between liberal arts colleges and a research university

Language Pedagogy Collaborations

Language Enrichment and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

to support a study of how university presses could increase the sales of scholarly publications directly to consumers

University Press Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Research

toward costs of research for a report by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities on the state of the humanities

State of the Humanities

to support enhanced programming in the university's Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Humanities Centers - The Boundaries of the Human in the Age of the Life Sciences

for a public-television program with Worldwatch Institute based on the Institute's State of the World publications

NOVA - State of the World

to support follow-up work of the National Commission on the Role and Future of State Colleges and Universities

National Commission on the Role and Future of State Colleges and Universities

toward the costs of its study of public and private postsecondary education in New York State

Study of Public and Private Postsecondary Education in New York State

for technical assistance to state court judges in the area of school finance

School Finance - CPRE

to support initiatives to incorporate interdisciplinarity into the curriculum

Enhancing Interdisciplinarity

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Just Futures Initiative: Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and Injustice

to endow a new senior conservator position in the university library

Senior Library Conservator Endowment

for use by the Regents' Commission on Higher Education toward a study of the future of institutions of higher education in the state

Higher Education Study

to support general operations at the New Mexico State University Art Museum

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support a collaboration between the Stellenbosch University Museum and the Michigan State University Museum on the Ubuntu Dialogues project

Ubuntu Dialogues

to support a research and graduate training program on the persistence of gender inequalities in the Global South

Governing Intimacies: Sexualities, Gender, and the State in the Postcolonial World

to support faculty and curricular development

Faculty Development

Faculty Support

Course Connections

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

Committing to Diversity

to support the establishment of a Humanities and Social Sciences Institute at Morgan State University

Benjamin Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute

to continue support for staff and collections in the Margaret Walker Center

Capacity Building for the Margaret Walker Center and the COFO Center

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" 