| Columbia University | Distinguished Achievement Award [Harris] | 03/14/08 | $1,500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Irvine | New Directions Fellowships | 03/14/08 | $167,000 | Irvine, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | New Directions Fellowships [Zhou] | 03/14/08 | $197,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Mount Holyoke College | Developing New Curricular Architecture | 03/14/08 | $475,000 | South Hadley, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Reed College | Faculty Retirement | 03/14/08 | $700,000 | Portland, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Minnesota at Twin Cities | Honors Program | 03/14/08 | $600,000 | Minneapolis, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Tufts University | Project VUE | 03/14/08 | $689,000 | Medford, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Duke University | International Humanities Graduate Students | 01/26/09 | $50,000 | Durham, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wittenberg University | Foreign Language in Science and Math | 01/26/09 | $30,000 | Springfield, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Scholarly Annotation Tools | 03/13/09 | $362,000 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Distinguished Achievement Award [Gunning] | 03/13/09 | $1,500,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Northwestern University | New Directions Fellowships [Qader] | 03/13/09 | $156,000 | Evanston, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Midwest Faculty Seminars | 03/13/09 | $415,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Hamilton College | New York Six Consortium | 03/13/09 | $100,000 | Clinton, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Richmond | Tocqueville Seminars | 03/13/09 | $968,000 | Richmond, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Carleton College | Visualizing the Liberal Arts | 03/13/09 | $770,000 | Northfield, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bowdoin College | Mid-Career President: President's Arts & Lecture Fund | 03/13/09 | $150,000 | Brunswick, ME, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | New Directions Post-Fellowship Award | 12/21/09 | $45,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| College of the Holy Cross | Summer Research Fellowships | 02/22/10 | $67,630 | Worcester, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rhodes College | Public and Digital Arts | 02/22/10 | $50,000 | Memphis, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Distinguished Achievement Award [Lear] | 03/19/10 | $1,500,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Williams College | New Directions Fellowships [Foias] | 03/19/10 | $208,000 | Williamstown, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York University | Institute of Fine Arts Review | 03/19/10 | $1,523,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Amherst College | Faculty-Student Research | 03/19/10 | $200,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| St. John’s College (Annapolis) | Senior President: Biology Curriculum Redesign | 03/19/10 | $250,000 | Annapolis, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
