Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Just Futures Initiative: Democratizing Racial Justice: Remembering Histories, Transforming Futures

to support an interdisciplinary project focused on birds that will engage students, faculty, and community members in reclaiming environmental knowledge already existing in borderlands Indigenous and Mexican American communities; train graduate and undergraduate students in transdisciplinary and community-based research methodologies; develop collaborative university/community partnerships and create broad public access to humanities-led programming to advance local environmental justice

Urban Bird Project

to support the Mexican American Studies program in the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Program Support

to continue support for an undergraduate research program for underrepresented and other students studying the humanities and selected social sciences

Humanities Pathways

Humanities Pathways Phase II

to support the creation of an undergraduate research program for students studying humanities and selected social sciences

to support the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, which will generate scholarship, programming, and the creation of resources on bilingual Borderlands Shakespeare appropriations

The Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva

to support the institutional priorities of Katherine Luber, director of the San Antonio Museum of Art

New Directors' Initiatives

to support the streamlining of humanities transfers and collaboration between humanities faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College

The Humanities Collaborative

to support classical music presenting activities at Texas Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting Activities at Texas Performing Arts

to continue support for the streamlining of humanities transfer processes and collaboration between humanities faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College

Community College-University Partnerships

to assist the scholarly publication program of the University of Texas Press

University Press Program

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

to support the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of University of Texas Press

to support planning for a controlled digital lending effort with the University of California Libraries digitized library collections

Future of Ebook Access at the University of California

to support organizational capacity at the Mexican American History of Civil Rights Institute, an archivist, and the development of an exhibition master plan

National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights

to continue support for the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the university, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments, entitled "Disputation:Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University"

Sawyer Seminars - Disputation: Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University

to support a project that will train a new generation of college in prison educators through a seminar and practicum in the history and theory of prison literature by and about incarcerated people in the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean


Pido la palabra: A Texas Prison Literature Project for Social Justice and the Literary Imagination 

Classical Music Presenting

to support the development of disabled peer mentorship at all academic ranks that offers a model for cross-disability and cross-institutional mentorship and cohort building

The Crip Narratives Collective

to support the curation and stewardship of audiovisual poetry archives at the Archive for New Poetry and the development of a toolkit to help contemporary poets and writers preserve their born-digital materials

Curation and Stewardship of Poetry Archives

toward expenses of conference on "The Crisis of the University"

"The Crisis of the University"

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Academic Brands: Privatizing, Quantifying, and Transforming the University"

Sawyer Seminar: Academic Brands: Privatizing, Quantifying, and Transforming the University

to support postdoctoral curatorial fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to continue support for postdoctoral curatorial fellowships

Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships

to support research on factors affecting Texas high school students decisions to attend college and the effects of recent rulings barring the use of race in college admissions

Minority Students' College Decisions - Kain - Part II

to support the development of a series of new humanities-oriented First Year Experience courses

Borders and Crossings: Exploring Global Questions at the University of Michigan-Flint

to support the further development of software to make audiovisual collections of cultural heritage materials more discoverable and accessible

AVAnnotate - Phase II

to support the use of poetry in audiovisual formats for research and teaching

Annotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow

to support a curatorial position with specialization in Latinx art as part of Advancing Latinx Art in Museums

Advancing Latinx Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Symphony Orchestra Program

to support classical music presenting activities at the Robert & Magrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting Activities at the Robert & Magrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

to support the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

support of conference sponsored by the International Committee on the University Emergency and for publication of materials and proceedings of the conference

Columbia University - International Committee on the University

to continue support for the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

to support and enhance humanities research

Re-Invigorating Humanities Research at the University of Ghana

to support postdoctoral teaching fellows to strengthen disciplinary writing in the humanities

Undergraduate Writing Collaboration with University of Texas at Austin

to support a liberal arts associate degree program at San Quentin State Prison

College Program at San Quentin

to support interdisciplinary artist residencies at the University of California at Los Angeles

Collaborative Intersections in  the Visual Initiative

for a teaching and research program in clinical epidemiology and public health to be conducted jointly with the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley

Clinical Epidemiology

toward costs of a teaching and research program in clinical epidemiology and public health to be conducted jointly with the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley

to support a project that studies the history of ballot access

Civic Engagement, Voting Rights, and the Founding Documents at the University of South Carolina

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

to continue support for the transfer of San Diego Community College District students in the humanities to the University of California at San Diego, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

to support planning for responsible information workforce development in the humanities

Mobilize, Articulate, Connect, Sustain: MACS-imizing Responsible Information Work in the Humanities

to assist the scholarly publication program of the University of Oklahoma Press

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

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" 