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 Michigan Press

University Press Project

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

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

History Course

for use of the University of Michigan in support of its Interdisciplinary Conference Series

Conference Series

toward the costs of a conference on the topic "Oral Literature and the Formula" under the sponsorship of the University of Michigan

Oral Literature Conference

to support the transfer of Henry Ford College students in the humanities to the University of Michigan and to strengthen collaboration between faculty in the humanities at both institutions

Transfer Bridges to the Humanities 

to support the attendance of US and South African researchers and doctoral students at conferences on affirmative action policy and research at the University of Michigan and the University of Cape Town

Affirmative Action Policy Conference

to support additional travel for US and South African researchers and doctoral students to attend conferences on affirmative action policy and research at the University of Michigan and the University of Cape Town

to continue support for the transfer of Henry Ford College, Grand Rapids Community College, and Schoolcraft College students in the humanities to the University of Michigan and to strengthen collaboration between faculty in the humanities at both institutions

Transfer Bridges to the Humanities - Phase II

to support a summer program designed to increase the diversity of graduate student applicant pools

Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars

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 Institute for the Humanities plays in the instruction and scholarly activities of the University

to endow postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities through the Michigan Society of Fellows: to be matched two-to-one within one year

Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities

to enable its College of Literature, Science, and the Arts to improve the teaching of writing skills for the College's undergraduates and at a number of Michigan high schools

Writing Program

to support the integration into the undergraduate and graduate experience across universities of educational strategies to encourage students to exercise their democratic right to vote

Building Voter Registration into the Fabric of University Life

for use by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research in support of a project offering research training and data sources to faculty members from historically Black colleges and universities

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

for use by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

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 a Just Futures Initiative project

Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions

for use by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research to provide technical training to faculty members from historically Black colleges and universities

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research [HBCU Faculty Training]

to support the planning of a project on low-enrollment languages, in collaboration with the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin, and Northwestern University

Low-Enrollment Languages  

Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity Center: Undoing Inequality

to support a study of the structure of research university faculties

Faculty Research Study 

to support research on the changing composition of university faculty

Faculty Research Study - Goldenberg and Cross

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

ArtsEngine Arts Integration Research

to support the implementation and documentation of a prototype system for the archiving of electronic mail

Developing a University E-mail Archival System 

to support an exchange of recent PhDs from the university with faculty members from Kalamazoo and Oberlin Colleges

Faculty - Postdoctoral Exchange 

towards costs of converting to machine-readable form selected bibliographic records for American Studies monographs in the University Library

Machine-Readable Conversion

to support a workshop for university archivists to develop case studies of successful strategies for managing archival records in digital form

Digital Archival Record Strategies

to support the exploration and documentation of use cases for potential integration of three major open-source publishing platforms

Connecting Open Source Publishing Services via Standardized Methods of Data Interchange

toward costs of Making of America IV, a project that will digitize 19th century books, conduct a study of costs of digitization and use of electronic monographs, and prepare a handbook for use by other digitization projects

Making of America IV

in support of the pilot phase of the Journal Storage Project designed to make back issues of core journals available in electronic form for use by faculty and students at selected college and university libraries

JSTOR - Journal Storage Project

to endow a new senior conservator position in the university library

Senior Library Conservator Endowment

to support a postdoctoral exchange program between the university and Kalamazoo and Oberlin Colleges

for use by its School of Information toward costs of program development

School of Information - Program Development

to increase its library resources in support of East Asian studies

Clements Library - History of Discoveries

in support of a program aimed at improving doctoral education while reducing time-to-degree and rates of attrition in the Deparunent of the History of Art

Graduate Education - History of Art Department

toward costs of a demonstration project on the use of electronic materials in teaching for the enhancement of quality and the reduction of costs

Cost-Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching 

to support development of infrastructure for the editing, production, dissemination, and discovery of long-form digital publications in the humanities

Platform for Management of Monographic Source Materials

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Beyond Othello the Moor: Seminar for Interdisciplinary Study of Blackness and Muslimness in the Context of White Supremacy"

The Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy: Seminar for Interdisciplinary Study of Blackness and Muslimness

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest"

Sawyer Seminar--Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest

to support an effort to collect data with institutions of higher education that would serve as a large dataset for studying the effects of liberal arts education on a broad set of student outcomes

College and Beyond II: Outcomes of a Liberal Arts EducatIon

to support the Department of Women's and Gender Studies

Program Support

to support the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

to support planning for the development of procedures to validate the quality and usefulness of digital objects in the HathiTrust repository

Planning for the Validation of Digital Objects in the HathiTrust Repository

to support the Ethnic Studies Program in the Department of American Culture

to support a series of voter education workshops for college students

An Issue-Focused Approach to Voter Education

to endow the position of Academic Coordinator and to support a collections assistant and two research fellows from the university's history of art department

Art Museums and the Curriculum - Endowment

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" 