Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the continuation of a faculty development program

Faculty Communities of Teaching Scholars

to support the Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Center for the Advancement of Teaching

to support the implementation of a comprehensive engaged reading initiative

Creating a Culture of Critical Reading

Center for the Advancement of Teaching [FaCTS]

to enhance faculty members’ capabilities in the use of information technologies and improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning

Institution Building - Center for the Advancement of Teaching

to support and strengthen the Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Institution Building - Center for the Advancement of Teaching II

to support the revision of the core curriculum by faculty under the auspices of the university’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development

General Education Pedagogy and Assessment

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Restoring the Black Intellectual Tradition at an HBCU through a Centralized University Honors Curriculum

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

College and Beyond

in support of faculty development and enhancement of the institution's general capacity to make more efficient use of its human resources

Institution Building - Teaching and Technology

to support programs that seek to address the aftermath of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster

Katrina - Endowment Challenge

to assist presidents of liberal arts and historically black colleges to meet the goals they have set for their respective institutions

Senior Presidential Leadership

to support the expansion of the African American and Diaspora Studies program

Celebrating African Diasporic Cultures

to support programs that seek to address the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Katrina - New Orleans Response

to support development of a model alumni records system

Institution Building - Alumni Records System

to create and/or adapt autonomous multimedia educational materials that take advantage of current technologies

to support the expansion of a community college student pipeline and summer bridge program

Summer Immersion in the Humanities for Transfer Students

to support existing environmental studies programs

Environmental Studies

Faculty Support

to strengthen its programs in arts and humanities

Arts/Humanities Faculty

matching endowment for a Fund for Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the arts and sciences

Black Colleges Program

to support planning for a comprehensive engaged reading initiative

Engaged Reading Initiative

Faculty-Student Research

to support the Center for Undergraduate Research

Center for Undergraduate Research

Faculty - Student Research Center

to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Emergency Student Support in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

University Press Program

to support a research base for emerging statewide efforts to expand and improve access to higher education among incarcerated people in Louisiana

Building an Evidence Base and University Resources for Expansion of Higher Education in Prison in Louisiana

to support the planning of partnership activities with the Louisiana State University

LSU Partnership - Planning

to support artistic and technological initiatives in collaboration with the Louisiana State University

LSU Partnership 

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

Plants Initiative

toward costs of compiling the North American component of the Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue

Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue

to support further planning and development of an electronic journal devoted to the scholarly uses and organization of library and special collections and archives

Archive: A Digital Journal

toward costs of the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue

for compilation of the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue

to support planning for an electronic journal devoted to the scholarly uses and organization of library special collections and archives

Electronic Journal

to support the purchase of a removable acoustical shell and removable sprung floor for the Mahalia Jackson Theatre, and performances at the reopening of the theater in collaboration with New Orleans Ballet Association and the New Orleans Opera Association

Post-Katrina Relief 

to support administrative, personnel, and insurance costs in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

to support curricular development and a tenure-track position in French and Francophone Studies

Deepening the French Connection and Linking Curriculum to Global Challenges

to support a professional development initiative to train musicians in film score recording

Musician Training

to strengthen artistic and administrative performance

Symphony Orchestra Program

to support a permanent revolving cash reserve fund

Cash Reserve Fund

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

to support organizational and artistic development

to support the Orchestra Forum Task Force on the Future

Orchestra Forum - Task Force

to support planning for a monument for New Orleans East by EJ Hill

A Monument for New Orleans East by EJ Hill

to continue support for a large-scale sculpture in New Orleans East by artist EJ Hill

A Monument for New Orleans East by EJ Hill 

toward costs of a library partnership with the University of Tartu in Estonia

University of Tartu Library 

for library improvement and establishment of an Internet node at the Economics University of Bratislava

Economics University of Bratislava, Slovakia

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" 