Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a Wellesley and Five Colleges faculty seminar on gender politics in postcolonial Africa

Faculty Seminar on Gender Politics

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

The Three College Collaboration

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

College and Beyond

to enable faculty members from Wellesley and other colleges and universities to conduct research on women's careers and life patterns and to incorporate the findings into curricular materials and teaching methods

Faculty Development

to develop a pilot program for exchange initiatives between American liberal arts colleges and the University of Cape Town and other South African universities, in collaboration with Smith College

Exchange Initiatives

for use by the Davis Museum and Cultural Center to strengthen the educational role of its collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

to support an endowment to strengthen the educational role of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Endowment

to strengthen the educational role of the collections and programs of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center

to improve educational effectiveness and gain financial efficiencies and, in collaboration with Wheaton College, to support improvements in the teaching of foreign language by using technology

Educational Effectiveness and Foreign Language Teaching and Technology 

to support a program to integrate the scholarship on student learning into faculty teaching practices

Teaching and Learning About Learning and Teaching at a Liberal Arts College

New President

Postdoctoral Fellowships

for a feasibility study of cost-effective administrative collaborations by a group of higher education institutions

Administrative Collaboration

bridging funds to help meet humanities faculty needs in the 1980's

1980s Fund

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential life

Academic Community

Foreign Study 

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular or administrative consolidation

Consolidation Program

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

Fresh Combinations

toward costs of the Tele-Video Project in French Language and Culture

French Telecourse

to support an environmental studies program

Environmental Studies

Emeritus Fellowships 

to support a project to enhance the first-year academic experience

First-Year Curriculum

to support the presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

to endow a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

Faculty Career Enhancement 

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

for use by its Center for Research on Women to expand scholarship on women and to encourage its incorporation into undergraduate liberal arts curricula

Scholarship for Women

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support the joint position of new media art curator in the Davis Museum and lecturer in the department of art

New Directors' Initiatives

to support postdoctoral teaching fellows to strengthen the first-year seminar program, area studies, and interdisciplinary programs in the humanities and social sciences

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships

Mellon Humanities Professorship

Emeritus Fellowships [Armstrong]

Emeritus Fellowships [O'Gorman]

to strengthen the relationship between the academic and residential programs

Academic Community - Electronic Communication

to support the one-year renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to support a visiting artist residency program and a collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Portuguese language instruction

Art Residency & Language Instruction

to support a presidential discretionary fund

New President - Discretionary Fund

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

in support of an undergraduate fellowship program intended to increase the number of minority students enrolled in PhD programs in designated fields of the arts and sciences

to support the development of the Courage to Teach program in New England

Senior President [Courage to Teach]

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in the arts and sciences

for use by the Boston/Mellon Consortium for further study and implementation of collaborative activities

Administration Collaboration [Boston/Mellon Consortium]

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in fields of the arts and sciences

to support a study of the relationship between students’ study abroad experiences and residential liberal arts education

Student Learning and Academic Decision Making 

to support the renewal of an undergraduate fellowship program

2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support the renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2009 Renewal

to support faculty experimentation with online learning in the liberal arts

Leveraging Online Learning to Enhance Liberal Arts Education

to support the creation of an interdisciplinary scholarly hub focused on race, gender, and carceral violence, utilizing the expertise of humanities scholars and community partners with a special focus on engaging those most impacted by the carceral system

Resisting the Carceral State: Co-Creating Abolitionist Futures 

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" 