Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a research and capacity-development project between the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Neoliberalism, Gender and Curriculum in Transformation

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

University Press Program

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of The University of Illinois Press

to support a planning grant to conduct the necessary groundwork to establish Interseminars in the Humanities and Arts at Illinois.

Interseminars in the Humanities and the Arts

for completion of a project with the University of Warsaw to establish an MBA program

Eastern European Program - University of Warsaw MBA Program

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

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

Classical Music Presenting 

to support institutes on governance for presidents of public colleges and universities

Public University Governance 

to support prison education and reentry programs for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students through engagement with faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at research universities

Education Justice Project

to continue to support prison education and reentry programs for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students through engagement with faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students at research universities

EJP Bridge Funding

Education Justice Project - Phase III

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)

for use by the Center for the Study of Reading for completion of three projects aimed at improving the reading and writing of "at-risk" students

Literacy Program

toward costs of establishing business-school programs at Polish universities

U/Warsaw MBA Program

for use by the Center for the Study of Reading to strengthen the reading ability of "at-risk" students

to support a collaboration of interdisciplinary humanities centers at 15 research-extensive institutions

Humanities Without Walls Consortium

to support a preliminary survey of the role of scholarly publishing in the tenure process in selected research institutions

Future of Scholarly Publishing

to support planning and pilot programs that will lead to the establishment of a consortium of humanities centers at 15 Midwestern research universities

Humanities Without Walls

to support the presentation of leading American orchestras and related student engagement activities at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting

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

Presenting Organizations on Campus - Krannert Center

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Nikki Usher

New Directions Fellowship: Beyond the Case Study: Toward Analysis of the Local News Crisis at Scale

to support developmental and production residencies for choreographers at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Dance Presenters Choreographer Residencies

to support an initiative that enables graduate students at the early stages of their program in the humanities to develop methodological approaches to thematic questions that require individual expertise and collaborative practice 

to support efforts by the Slavonic Library in Prague, Czechoslovakia to study modem library technology at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs

EEP - Slavonic Librarian

to support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's residency at the Krannert Center and related student engagement activities

Krannert Center - Chicago Symphony Residency

to support a pilot curriculum-based arts initiative at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Krannert Center - Pilot Curriculum - Based Arts Initiative

to support the Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research

Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research

to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Current Grantee Prison Education Programs

to support the retrospective conversion and cataloging of the collections in the University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Rare Book Cataloging

Intersectional Studies

to support research clusters in the biological, environmental, and legal humanities

Emerging Areas of the Humanities Fellowship Program

to support a project examining the circulation of reports about anti-Black violence in 19th and early 20th century US newspapers

The Virality of Racial Terror in US Newspapers, 1863-1921

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

Plants Initiative

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of Africa, Latin America, and other areas

to support a study of faculty use of institutional repositories in various fields

Institutional Repositories

to support the development of a system to enable federated search and use of collections distributed among multiple scholarly repositories

Developing Interoperability 

toward costs of a study of the well-being and satisfaction of students in the "College and Beyond" database

College and Beyond

to support the development of an online, multi-level, cross-linked, annotated bibliography of scholarly publications in the area of music information retrieval

Scholarly Music Publications

to support the retrospective conversion of library card catalog records to a standard electronic format

Retrospective Conversion

in support of the Slavic Reference Service

Slavic Reference Service

in support of the Slavic Reference Center

to support the production of a set of standards for referencing software that will allow scholarly annotation tools and content repositories to interoperate and scholars to share and reuse their annotation resources

Scholarly Annotation Tools 

to support the publication of scholarly monographs in the humanities

Monographs Initiative - Folklore 

in support of a research project on life satisfaction using the "College and Beyond" database

for the purpose of conducting a three-week workshop/training course for bank legal officials from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland

EEP - Bank Workshop

to support planning for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage

Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage

to support the development of methods and technologies that would provide secure access to in-copyright collections in the HathiTrust digital repository for computational humanities research

HathiTrust Research Center

to support the continued collaboration of the Humanities without Walls consortium of interdisciplinary humanities centers

Humanities Without Walls Consortium III

Humanities Without Walls Consortium II

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" 