Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

University Press Program

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

to continue to support general operations for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

General Operating Support: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 

to support interdisciplinary collaborative research seminars, a mentoring program, undergraduate curriculum development

New Strategies for the Humanities at Berkeley

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role university humanities centers play in the instructional and scholarly activities of their home institutions

University Humanities Centers

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role the Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role that the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanites plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the university

to support general operations at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Art Museum Futures Fund

to support the curation and stewardship of poetry archives at the Bancroft Library related to 20th-century women poets and the presses that published them

Curation and Stewardship of Poetry Archives

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

to support the creation of an archive that documents spatial racism in Oakland, as well as salaries and stipends for university and community personnel

Archive of Urban Futures

to support the development and maintenance of electronic publications in classical studies

California Classical Studies Publication Project

to support a planning workshop for a new electronic monograph series in the field of classics

Planning the California Classical Monographs

to support initiatives at the Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities aimed at strengthening its role in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

Strategic Working Groups

to support a survey of the manuscript collections held at the Bancroft Library

Survey of Special Collections

to enhance the educational role of the museum's collections and programs, within a selective program to assist college and university art museums

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role that the Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

Strategic Working Group

to support the community-based planning, specification, and pilot testing of Project Bamboo, a shared technology services environment for the arts and humanities in collaboration with the University of Chicago

Project Bamboo 

in support of a project, in collaboration with Columbia University, to create cataloguing protocols and a digital library of medieval manuscripts, and to analyze costs of access and patterns of use in comparison with traditional  methods for research

Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts 

to support innovative work by humanities centers in research universities

Townsend Center - Art of Writing

to support classical music presentations at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and collaborative work with the University Musical Society and Cal Perfomances

Classical Music Presenting 

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Just Futures Initiative: The Black Studies Collaboratory

for use by the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization of the Haas School of Business for a collaborative study of the role of research universities in industrial innovation

University Industry Research Relations

to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support)

to support collectively developed projects in disciplinary innovation and cross-institutional collaboration by a consortium of university humanities centers

Disciplinary Innovation

to support research and training activities for graduate students

University Humanities Centers - Discovery Fellows

to support a meeting of higher education research center directors around topics of mutual interest and potential collaboration

Directors' Meeting of Centers of Higher Education

for use by the Lawrence Hall of Science toward publication and dissemination of its most successful science and mathematics education programs

Lawrence Hall of Science

to support an initiative at the intellectual and institutional intersection of architecture, urbanism, and the humanities

Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities

to support activities for strengthening scholarship and graduate training in British history, in collaboration with Yale University

British History 

to support an initiative aimed at strengthening the integration of the arts into academic life

Presenting Organizations on Campus - Cal Performances

to support preliminary research for a study of the economics of scholarly journal publishing

Economics of Scholarly Journal Publishing

to support campus-wide expansion of the Art of Writing Program to community college and transfer students

Art of Writing - Phase II

to support the implementation of a program to enhance undergraduate student research and information skills

New Models of Library Service 

to support research on pricing and the nature of competition in the scholarly journals industry

Economics of Scholarly Journal Publishing 

to support the development of a program to enhance undergraduate student research and information skills

New Models of Library Service

to support the establishment of an International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

to support inquiry into disciplinary innovation at the Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities

Disciplinary Innovation 

to support a study of the parallel development of historical and scientific thought

Development of Physical and Historical Sciences 

to support an interconnected sequence of collective projects among academics, artists, and activists focused on the critique of and counter-imaginary to contemporary authoritarianism

to continue support for the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs

for use by its Graduate School of Education in support of the Fostering a Community of Learners project

Literacy Program - Fostering a Community of Learners

for use by its School of Education in support of a literacy project "Fostering a Community of Learners"

in support of the Fostering a Community of Learners project

Literacy Program - Reinventing a Community of Learners

to support a study of the causes and implications of declining growth in the number of college degrees awarded since the 1970s

Implications of Slower Growth in American Higher Education 

to support the preparation of a monograph on the research and findings of projects conducted under the Foundation’s Cost-Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching (CEUTT) program

Cost-Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching - Monographs

for use by its Press toward publication of the "Atlas of Marine Uses for the North Pacific"

Marine Use Atlas

to support the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies

Program Support

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" 