Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the development of faculty and graduate student research programs, a lecture series, and events for local community college students and faculty at the university's W. E. B. Du Bois Center

W. E. B Du Bois Center

to support the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies program

Program Support

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Professor Sonya L. Atalay

New Directions Fellowship (Atalay)

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "The Universal Basic Income: History and Theory of a Utopian Desire"

Sawyer Seminar: The Universal Basic Income: History and Theory of a Utopian Desire

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "The Medieval in the Modern: Rethinking Global Paradigms of Political Economy and Culture"

Sawyer Seminar: "The Medieval in the Modern: Rethinking Global Paradigms of Political Economy and Culture"

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

Plants Initiative

toward preparation of the Guide to the Study of United States History Outside the U.S., 1945-1980

U.S. History Guide

to support the establishment of a fellows program in Decolonial Global Studies, and the development of a graduate certificate in the field

Decolonial Global Studies

to support the development of an institution-wide mentoring initiative for new and underrepresented faculty

Mentoring Initiative 

to renew support for a multifaceted mentoring initiative that aims to enhance the experience of new faculty and improve the prospects for retaining them

Mentoring Initiative

to support development of software and techniques for scholars in the humanities to use in processing large corpora of digitized books

Proteus Infrastructure - Work Aggregation and Entity Extraction

to support a Mellon Seminar in Interpretation

Dissertation Seminars

Slavery North Initiative

to support general operations related to the Five Colleges consortium

Presidential Discretionary Fund

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Race and Visual Culture in the Americas 20th to 21st Centuries"

Sawyer Seminar -  Race and Visual Culture in the Americas 20th-21st Centuries

to support the expansion of the self-instruction language program located at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and serving the Five Colleges

Self Instructional Language Program

for a study of the effects of participation in athletics and other extracurricular activities on students at Yale and at Amherst

Campus Life Study [Yale and Amherst]

to assist the scholarly publication program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

University Press Program

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

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

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

in support of the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education at Charles University

EEP - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education at Charles University

to support the continuation of a Global Issues Honors Consortium in collaboration with University of Minnesota at Morris, Dillard University and Tougaloo College

Honors Program 

to support the national expansion of Artists at Work, which integrates art and artists through sustainable employment and partnership models into the rebuilding of healthy communities

Artists at Work

to support a research incubator for The 1856 Project, an initiative dedicated to investigating the legacy of slavery at the University of Maryland and engaging in reparative archives work

The 1856 Project

to support an expansion of the Atlanta University Center/University of Minnesota honors program

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 Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department

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

University Archives

to support the High Impact Humanities program to integrate undergraduate research, experiential learning, civic engagement, and career preparation initiatives

High Impact Humanities:  Connecting Curriculum, Community, and Careers for Student Success

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Minnesota Transform: A Just University for Just Futures

to assist efforts to establish an institute through which senior academics can undertake policy studies and provide consultation and mentoring

New England Resource Center for Higher Education

to support collaboration between the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Press in the publication of research in various interdisciplinary fields of study

Publication and Research Collaboratives

for use by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education in its research program on faculty recruitment, retention, and retirement in comprehensive colleges

New England Resource Center for Higher Education - Study on Faculty

to continue support for Technical and Production Residencies for Artists at MASS MoCA

Technical and Production Residencies for Artists at MASS MoCA

to support an interdisciplinary publication program aimed at strengthening the role the university press plays in the scholarly activities of the university

Publication and Research Collaboratives II 

to support Cultivating Effective Citizens: An Amherst College Public Scholarship Project

Cultivating Effective Citizens: A Public Scholarship Project

to strengthen the relationship between the academic and residential programs

The Academic Community at Liberal Arts Colleges

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

for continued development of an MBA program at the Warsaw School of Economics

EEP - MBA Program - Warsaw School of Economics 

support of its sponsored research projects at Carnegie-Mellon University relative to the preservation of paintings

Preservation of Arts at Carnegie-Mellon University

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

University Press Project

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

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of The M.I.T. Press

to support the continuation of the Our Compelling Interests (OCI) initiative at the Center for Social Solutions

Our Compelling Interests (OCI) at the Center for Social Solutions

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

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

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" 