Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the second phase of the College Retirement Project

Mellon College Retirement Project - Phase II

to support continuing work on the retiree health insurance consortium for liberal arts colleges and, more broadly, for private higher education and education-related not-for-profit organizations

Mellon College Retirement Project - Supplementary Support

to support the implementation of the consortial post-retirement medical insurance entity

Mellon College Retirement Project - Phase I - Implementation

to support discretionary initiatives at the early stage of a liberal arts college president’s career

New President

matching grants to establish a presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

to continue support for a study of faculty retirement at liberal arts colleges

Faculty Retirement

to support an interdisciplinary program within the college's Common Curriculum

Mid-Career President

to support a study of the feasibility of using consortial approaches to provide post-retirement medical insurance at liberal arts colleges

Faculty Career Development - Post-Retirement Medical Insurance

to support the integration of the humanities across the curriculum

Shared Humanities

to support a research project on individual and institutional strategies for planning faculty retirement

toward costs of improving foreign language instruction and achieving greater cost-effectiveness

Educational Effectiveness

to support reconceptualizing and restructuring the freshman preceptorial

to support a program of faculty and administrative development

Faculty Development

to support an academic program in Adirondack studies

Adirondack Studies

to support an environmental studies program

Environmental Studies

to support the administrative costs of the Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions program

Emeriti Program

to support the business start-up phase of Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions

to support an initiative to strengthen and integrate the arts and humanities across academic disciplines

Our Shared Humanities

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support four faculty bridge appointments in philosophy, anthropology, and English

Faculty Bridge Appointments

to support the residential program and establish interdisciplinary academic relationships

Senior Presidential Leadership

to provide supplemental support of the faculty retirement program

Faculty Retirement Supplemental Support

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential life

Academic Community - Minerva Mentors

to support the faculty retirement project

to support a new collaborative study-abroad program in cooperation with Union College

Joint Off-Campus Study Programs 

to support continuing collaborative efforts of the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium in the areas of globalization and language learning (in collaboration with Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Union College, and Colgate and St. Lawrence Universities)

New York Six Consortium - International Initiative

toward costs of a review, in collaboration with Union College, of off-campus study programs and an exploration of cost-effective ways to cooperate in providing high quality foreign-study opportunities to students

Off-Campus Study

toward costs of the Czech CASLIN Union Catalogue

EEP - Caslin Union Catalogue

to support librarians’ attendance of the Foundation sponsored Tallinn Conference on Union Catalogs

EEP - Tallinn Conference on Union Catalogues

to support the software license needed for the Slovak union catalog

Slovak Union Catalog

toward costs of translation into English of approximately 20 papers on union catalogue issues

EEP - Polish Union Catalogue

toward costs of a workshop on the subject of a national union library catalogue

National Union Catalogue - Workshop

to create a prototype union catalog for art images

Union Catalogue for Art Images 

to support costs associated with the South African delegation to the Mellon Foundation Conference on Union Catalogs in Tallinn, Estonia

National Union Catalogue - SABINET

to support the first phase of a project to create a new national union catalogue and interlibrary lending network for South Africa

to support continued development of a prototype union catalog for art images

Union Catalogue for Art Images

toward costs of creating a Polish national union catalogue

Eastern European Program - Polish Union Catalog

to support librarians’ attendance of the Foundationsponsored Tallinn Conference on Union Catalogs

to support the participation of Polish librarians in the Tallinn Conference on Union Catalogs

to create a new national union catalogue and interlibrary lending network for South Africa

National Union Catalogue - SABINET - Phase II

to support the implementation of the Union Catalog on the Web

Advanced Web Services for Union Catalogues [RedLightGreen]

to support the costs associated with the Foundation’s Conference on Union Catalogs to be hosted by the National Library

EEP - Mellon Conference on Union Catalogs 

to support research expenses associated with the preparation of a major paper for the Mellon Foundation Conference on Union Catalogs in Tallinn, Estonia

EEP - Mellon Conference on Union Catalogs

to support the implementation of a Web-based interface for its union database of library catalogs

toward costs of a computer produced microfilm catalog for the University, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and the New School for Social Research

NYU/New School/Cooper Union - Library Consolidation

toward costs of a trip to universities in the US by the head of the Lódz Consortium, in order to study union catalogue systems

EEP - Study of Union Catalogue Systems [Lodz Consortium]

for faculty and curriculum development at the Cooper Union School of Art

Faculty/Curriculum Development

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

Black Colleges Program

to strengthen faculty and curricula in the arts and humanities

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" 