Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the development of a program in global and international studies

Global and International Studies

to support a program that engages students, faculty, and the university's broader communities in an examination of history's value in a democratic society

History in the Public Sphere

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

Fresh Combinations

to support faculty and curricular development

Faculty Development

in support of planning to improve educational effectiveness and to gain financial efficiencies through collaboration

Educational Effectiveness

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

to support appointments of junior or intermediate faculty members in humanities or social sciences in advance of key retirements

2000 Funds

New President

Faculty Support

to support the environmental studies program

Environmental Studies

to support the development of a new resource center for faculty members

Faculty Career Enhancement

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to assist in the construction of an undergraduate library

Mellon Humanities Professorship

to support the implementation of programs for faculty career enhancement

to support the appointment of junior faculty fellows to catalyze curriculum development in the humanities

Junior Faculty Fellowship Program

Revitalizing the Spring Term

New President - Teacher/Scholar Model

to support digital humanities initiatives

DH Studio - A Digital Humanities Pedagogical Innovation

to support international education initiatives

The Global Classroom: Implementing Enhancements of International Education

to support new stained-glass windows to replace the cathedral’s Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson windows and related programming

Lee‐Jackson Windows Replacement and Education Project

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Professor Sonya Lee

New Directions Fellowship (Lee)

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 a New Directions Fellowship for Min Kyung Lee

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

in support of the Washington Collegium for Humanistic Study and Research

Washington Collegium

in support of the Washington Collegium on the Humanities

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

Ecosystems Research and Training [Paine] [Tatoosh Island]

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

Baltimore-Washington Musical Pathways Initiative

to support initiatives that will more deeply integrate the performing arts in the research and pedagogical missions of the university

Arts and Creativity Initiative

to assist planning for cooperative programs among seven Washington cultural institutions

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 a program of undergraduate research, graduate training, and teaching in American Indian and Indigenous studies

Pathways and Partnerships for Native American and Indigenous Studies

to continue support for a program of undergraduate research, graduate training, and teaching in American Indian and Indigenous studies

Pathways and Partnerships for Native American and Indigenous Studies - Phase II

to support a fellowship program that would encourage diversity among staff in university presses

University Press Diversity Fellowship Program II

to support programs of ecosystems research and training

Ecological Research and Training 

to support planning for the enhancement of a software platform for the archiving and curation of Native American collections

Mukurtu: Platform for Archiving and Curation of Native American Collections

to support coordinated ecological research and training programs in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Ecosystems Research and Training 

to support community-based archives and collection building

Mukurtu Shared: Platform for Archiving and Curation of Native American Collections

to support curriculum innovation intended to attract first-year undergraduates to humanities courses and majors

Humanities Innovation and Engagement

to support ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research and Training - Naiman 

to support collaborations between campus art museums and libraries

Campus Museum and Library Collaboration

to support an exploration of essential questions surrounding the acquisition, discoverability, preservation, and use of born-digital poetry collections

Curation and Stewardship of Poetry Archives

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Capitalism and Comparative Racialization"

Sawyer Seminar: Capitalism and Comparative Racialization

to support Indigenous scholarship and knowledge in a data services context by advancing Indigenous perspectives, values, and protocols in libraries and digital repositories

Data Services for Indigenous Scholarship and Sovereignty

to support ecological research and training programs led by junior faculty scientists

Ecosystems Research and Training - Junior Faculty - Ruesink

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

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" 