Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

toward the initial costs of collecting data and designing case studies of secondary schools to complement the Foundation’s "College and Beyond" study

Effects of Secondary Education

to support research on the effects of secondary education on the achievements of students at selective colleges

Effects of Secondary Education [Bartell]

to support the creation of a network that will organize and expand the “Way of Life” curricular model 

Way of Life Course Network in Philosophy

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "The Qur’an in the World of Late Antiquity"

Sawyer Seminars - The Qur'an in the World of Late Antiquity

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

Plants Initiative

toward the costs of preparing a descriptive catalogue of the Latin and Western language manuscripts in its Ambrosiana Collection

Ambrosiana Collection Catalog

to support the assembly, translation, and editing of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea Scrolls

to support a new initiative for the interdisciplinary study and production of sacred music drama

Sacred Music Drama

in support of Mellon Seminars in Interpretation

Mellon Seminars in Interpretation 

for faculty development in the College of Arts and Letters

Liberal Arts Faculty Development

to support institutional programs to strengthen scholarship on and teaching of religion


Religion Across the Disciplines

for use as a matching endowment in support of a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in medieval studies

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Medieval Studies

for use by The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies in support of a program of research on social policies and the training of Latin American specialists

Kellogg Institute - Social Policies for Urban Poor in Southern Latin America

Faculty Development

to support research and teaching in Byzantine studies

Byzantine Studies

Emeritus Fellowships 

Emeritus Fellowships [Kommers]

to support scholarly programs in ancient philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Workshop

New Directions Fellowship (Ocobock)

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Professor Debra Javeline

New Directions Fellowship (Javeline)

to support research workshops for graduate students and faculty members in the humanities

Graduate Student - Faculty Workshops

New Directions Fellowship (Thomas)

to support collaborations among campus libraries and museums.

Campus Library and Museum Collaboration

to support ongoing scholarly activities by a former New Directions recipient

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Thomas)

to support graduate education program reform

Arts and Letters 5+1 Graduate Program

to manage the purchase and implementation of a new integrated library management system at the University of Namibia and to include the University’s library in FOTIM’s Gauteng and Environs Library and Information Consortium

University of Namibia Library

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

University Press Program

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

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

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

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

to continue to support a degree-granting partnership between the University of New Haven and the Yale Prison Education Initiative for incarcerated students in Connecticut

University of New Haven/Yale Prison Education Initiative Degree Granting Partnership – Phase II

to support the development of infrastructure and staff for strengthening the institutional archives of the City University of New York

Cultivating Archives and Institutional Memory at “The People’s University”

to support the role of the Center for the Humanities in the instructional and scholarly activities of the university

University Humanities Centers

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role the Center for the Humanities plays in the instruction and scholarly activities of the University

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

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role that the Center for the Humanities plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the university

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

Collaborative Services Platform for University Presses

to continue support for the transfer of humanities students at Central New Mexico Community College and University of New Mexico branch campuses to the University of New Mexico main campus

Building Humanities Pathways - Phase II

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

to support a study of how university presses could increase the sales of scholarly publications directly to consumers

University Press Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Research

to support the transfer of Central New Mexico Community College students in the humanities to the University of New Mexico, and assure their successful completion of the BA degree

Building Humanities Pathways

to support adjunct faculty impacted by COVID-related budget cuts and sustain humanities offerings at the City University of New York

Adjunct Faculty Support

to support food security activities on City University of New York campuses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

CUNY Campaign for a Food Secure CUNY

for use by the Inter-University Program for Lattino Research at Hunter College to support its project "The Global Society and the Latino Community

Inter-University Program for Latino Research

to support food security, health and mental health care, and housing assistance activities on City University of New York campuses

Comprehensive Access to Resources for Essential Services

to support a study of the effects of the City University of New York’s "open admissions" policy on low-income students and their children

Open Admissions - Second Generation Effects

to support the University of North Dakota and the North Dakota Tribal College System's humanistic efforts to preserve and provide access to Indigenous languages, histories, and cultural lifeways on the Northern Plains

Expanding Digital Humanities Across Northern Plains Indigenous Higher Educational Institutions

to support the development and expansion of prison education and reentry initiatives, in collaboration with the City University of New York 

Expanding Access to Higher Education in New York State Prisons

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

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" 