Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Program Support

to support the African American and African Diaspora Studies Program

to support a multi-institutional research investigation, including a convening, on the role of public libraries in food justice initiatives

Food Justice and Public Libraries

to support a Mellon Seminar in Interpretation

Dissertation Seminars

to support a humanities-centered internship program

Mellon Internship Program in the Humanities

to support an initiative to improve outcomes and post-graduation success for underserved students

Integrating Interdisciplinary Research Across the Humanities

to assist the scholarly publication program of the University of North Carolina Press

University Press Program

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of University of North Carolina Press

to support the American Indian Center’s continued community partnerships, through a regranting program to the eight Native nations who share geography with the state of North Carolina, student internships, and capacity needed for continued public programming

Reclaiming Native Place, Space, and Knowledge in North Carolina

to support collaboration between the University of North Carolina and the University of North Carolina Press to publish the "Long Civil Rights Movement"

Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement

for use by the Carolina Population Center in support of research to evaluate the impact of family planning programs in developing countries

Carolina Population Center - Evaluation Project

to improve the teaching of writing and foreign Ianguages in the high schools of North Carolina

High School Program

to support artist residences associated with Carolina Performing Arts’ The Rite of Spring at 100

Rite of Spring 100 

to support activities associated with "The Rite of Spring" at 100 initiative at Carolina Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting

to support the presentation of leading symphony orchestras at Carolina Performing Arts

to support the construction of the North Carolina Freedom Park and Beacon of Freedom

North Carolina Freedom Park

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

Presenting Organizations on Campus - Carolina Performing Arts

to support collaborative multiyear projects at Carolina Performing Arts between artists, faculty, students, and the local community 

Creative Futures

to support an initiative to expand and strengthen the work of faculty and students in the digital humanities

Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative

to support a forum on fostering greater inclusion of low-income students in higher education, entitled "Politics of Inclusion: Higher Education at a Crossroad"

The Politics of Inclusion:  Higher Education at a Crossroad

in support of research and training related to the population dynamics of developing countries

Carolina Population Center - Demographic Research

for use by the Carolina Population Center in support of a minority undergraduate training program in population research

CPC - Minority Program

to support a fellowship program for Carolina Performing Arts

DisTIL Fellowship

for use by its Carolina Population Center in support of the use of information technology to advance demographic research and teaching in developing countries

Technical Tools for Training in Demography

for use by its Laboratories for Reproductive Biology and the Carolina Population Center in a joint program of research and training in reproductive biology and population science

Population Centers Program

Reproductive Biology - Population Science

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 subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies

to support the development of capacities at university presses for the publication of digital monographs

Collaborative Services Platform for University Presses

for editorial costs of the Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

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

New President

to edit the "Atlas of the Greek and Roman World"

to support practitioner-academic collaboration in research and training

University Practitioner Linkages in Population

matching endowment and term support of the joint Program in Latin American Studies with Duke University

Latin American Studies - Duke/UNC Joint Program

for a consolidated Latin American Studies Program with Duke University

Duke/UNC - Joint LAS Program

to support the empirical study and analysis of legal issues affecting scholarly communication

Analysis of Copyright Ambiguities

to support the creation of a laboratory for teaching digital forensics at the School of Information and Library Science

Creating a Digital Acquisitions Learning Laboratory

to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the Ackland Museum of Art's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Endowment

to support research and planning that would result in recommendations for the licensing and acquisition of electronic resources

Recommendations for Licensing and Acquisition of Electronic Resources

to support residencies for ensemble theater companies at the PlayMakers Repertory Company

Production Residencies for Theater Ensembles

to support the development of tools and methods for the appraisal, selection, and preservation of email

Selection and Appraisal of Email for Preservation

to support planning for the large scale digitization and preservation of audio and audiovisual collections, and development of access mechanisms for the resulting digital files

Preservation of Southern Audio and Audiovisual Resources

to support the preservation of audiovisual holdings in the library and a pilot program that would extend such services to the region

Extending the Reach of Southern Audiovisual Sources

in support of seminars which treat the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - The Concept and Consequences of Race 

to support development of large scale digitization, preservation, and access mechanisms for audio and audiovisual collections

Preservation of Southern Audio and Audiovisual Resources - Phase II

to support the creation of data sets derived from legal corpora based on Jim Crow laws for analysis and teaching

On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance 

to support an arts and educational alliance focusing on public humanities and community engagement

Leading the Public Arts and Humanities in the City of Asheville

for a study of the attributes of two-year institutions of higher education and of historically Black colleges which may be associated with educational achievement among minority students

HBCU Study

to support sustainability planning for audiovisual preservation, including state-wide and regional digitization services

Extending the Reach of Southern Audiovisual Sources: Sustainability

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" 