Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a campus-wide curricular initiative to expand and sustain an inclusive learning community

Engaged Pluralism: Belonging and Thriving at Vassar College

to endow a rotating faculty chair in Multidisciplinary Studies, and a fund for the support of faculty research, professional development, and creative work in honor of Vassar alumna Anne McNiiff Tatlock

Anne Tatlock Endowments for Faculty Support

to strengthen the role of the library on liberal arts college campuses

Libraries

to improve foreign language teaching through the use of technology, in collaboration with Williams College

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology 

for use by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center to strengthen the educational role of its collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

to establish an endowment to strengthen the curricular role of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Endowment

to support a Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education

Toward a Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education

for use to enable long-serving and highly successful presidents of four liberal arts colleges to strengthen programs which will have significant influence on the future directions of their colleges

Senior Presidential Leadership

to support the preparation of recommendations for the simplification of the college’s shared governance structure

Governance Structure

to support planning a media studies program

Educational Effectiveness

in support of four postdoctoral fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to improve educational effectiveness and gain financial efficiencies

New President

Mellon Professorship

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular or administrative consolidation

Consolidation Program

to develop fresh combinations in teaching and learning in the arts and sciences

Fresh Combinations

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular and administrative consolidation

to support postdoctoral fellowships to facilitate faculty retirement transitions

Faculty Retirement

to support artistic residencies and cross-disciplinary collaboration

Visiting Artists

to support the environmental studies program

Environmental Studies

Emeritus Fellowship 

to support postdoctoral fellowship programs

to support faculty and curricular development

Faculty/Curricular Renewal

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

Emeritus Fellowships [Peck]

New President - Planning

to support a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

Emeritus Fellowships [Kohl]

Faculty Career Enhancement 

to support activities that address faculty career enhancement needs

to support developing sustainable strategies for Web development and maintenance and to provide a model for collaboration

Technological Innovation and Sustainability

to support a multi-disciplinary arts and curricular development initiative

Creative Arts Across Disciplines

to support the Career and Curricular Transitions (CCT) Postdoctoral Fellowships

Career and Curricular Transitions

in support of the development of the "American Arts and Letters Network," an effort to increase coordination among electronic resources in the arts and the humanities

American Arts and Letters Network

to support the planning of an archive of digital images related to Dante and his works

Dante Image Archive Planning Group 

to support community-engaged programs in the humanities that encourage equitable collaborations with residents and organizations in the City of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, and the Hudson Valley

Community-Engaged Intensives in the Humanities

Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education

to support an evaluation of capstone projects and writing instruction across the curriculum



Mid-Career President - An Educational Quality Development Fund

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa

New Directions Fellowship: Mesoamerican Worldviews: How Indigenous Philosophies Influence Latin America

to support cross-institutional curricular collaboration with Babson College and the Olin College of Engineering

The Three College Collaboration

toward costs of collecting data for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" study

College and Beyond

in support of the initial cost of data collection for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" research project

to support a study of the factors that influence low-income college students’ decisions to leave school

College Dropout Decisions

to support the Pathways to College program

Pathways to College Program

toward costs of collecting data for the Foundation’s "College and Beyond" study

in support of its High School-College Cooperative Learning Program

High School-College Program

to support a planning symposium on the future of the liberal arts college library

Liberal Arts College Library

in support of projects in the Trinity College Library

Trinity College Library

to support a Minnesota higher education study of college costs, affordability, and choices

College Costs Study

to support the project "Paying For College: Access, Affordability and Choice in Minnesota Higher Education"

Paying for College

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" 