Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the Chesapeake Heartland Project in public history, a collaboration with the local African American community, Kent County public schools, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project

to support an interdisciplinary program connecting the arts with the natural environment

SANDBOX

to improve educational effectiveness and gain financial efficiencies

Educational Effectiveness

New President

Faculty Support

to support library and information technology initiatives and alumni programming

Fresh Combinations

Wye Faculty Seminar

to support the environmental studies program

Environmental Studies - Chesapeake Semester

to support planning for library renovation and the recruitment of a new librarian

Library Expansion and Renovation

to support the art program and enrich the curriculum

Art and Art History Project

in support of the Washington Collegium on the Humanities

Washington Collegium

in support of the Washington Collegium for Humanistic Study and Research

to assist planning for cooperative programs among seven Washington cultural institutions

to support a study of the role race and ethnic inequality play in students’ transitions from high school to college and of the impact of the Washington State Initiative 200 ballot referendum on minority college attendance

Minority Students' College Decisions

to support a study of the role of race and ethnicity in students’ transition from high school to college and the effect of a Washington State referendum on college attendance by minorities

Minority Students' College Decisions - Hirschman

to support the Washington Prison History Project

Washington Prison History Project

to support listening sessions with tribal communities in Washington State to better understand their library and technology needs for future pilot projects

Centering Washington Tribal Libraries 

to support planning for a liberal arts colleges consortium in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Liberal Arts College Consortium

to support research on factors affecting minority high school students’ decisions to attend college and on the effects of recent rulings barring the use of race in college admissions decisions

to support planning and implementation of the Baltimore-Washington Musical Pathways Initiative

Baltimore-Washington Musical Pathways Initiative

to support the Washington Opera’s production of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa

Opera Program

to support the creation of a culture consortium and expand new and existing partnerships with regional Indigenous tribes

Indigenous Cultural Preservation in Washington State

to support the festival's core operations

March on Washington Film Festival

to support a conference of the Pennsylvania Consortium for the Liberal Arts on the intersection of free speech and civic engagement on campus

PCLA Dialogues for the Liberal Arts: Speech on Campus

to support a library reclassification project

Library Reclassification

to support the implementation of a new curriculum

New Curriculum

to support a faculty development initiative focused on interdisciplinarity and internationalism

International Faculty Development

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support retirement incentive costs of a bridge-to-retirement plan

Bridge to Retirement

to support a study of faculty workload and curricular reorganization

Faculty Workload Study

to support the redesign of the first-year seminar

Revitalizing the First Year Seminar

to support the strengthening of campus diversity and the foreign study program

Campus Diversity and Foreign Study

to support the implementation of the Pennsylvania Consortium for the Liberal Arts

Pennsylvania Consortium for the Liberal Arts

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

University Press Program

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

to support archiving and developing access to ecological research data from Tatoosh Island, Washington

Ecosystems Research and Training [Paine] [Tatoosh Island]

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

to support workshops for liberal arts college faculty to enhance their knowledge of constitutional studies

Constitutional History 

to support the planning of workshops for liberal arts college faculty to enhance their knowledge of constitutional studies

Constitutional History

to support the Simpson Center's program Reimagining the Humanities PhD

Reimagining the Humanities PhD: Partnering with Two-Year Colleges, Public Humanities Pedagogy, and Public Scholarship Projects

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

Artists as Catalysts

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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" 