Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

support of a joint planning effort of the College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Massachusetts to study the feasibility of interinstitutional cooperation and action in the Worcester area

Inter-Institutional Activities

to support a visiting artist program in the departments of music, theater, and visual arts

Re-Centering the Arts

to support expansion of the undergraduate research program in the humanities

Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships

to support the establishment of the Center for Teaching and Learning

Mid-Career President: Center for Teaching and Learning

to support community-based student and faculty collaborative research in the humanities

Scholarship in Action

to support summer research opportunities for students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Summer Research Fellowships 

for use to improve educational effectiveness and to gain financial efficiencies

Educational Effectiveness

New President

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to improve educational effectiveness and to gain financial efficiencies

Foreign Language Teaching and Technology

Montserrat Program and Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support curricular and research initiatives that preserve local history, integrate social and racial justice work into artistic practice and teaching, and explore questions of special interest to community members

New College and the Cross-College Alliance in the Community

to support a program of cross-disciplinary instruction across the humanities

Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum

to support development of an interdisciplinary, international curriculum and engaged student learning

Cross-College Collaboration 

to support collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania Press in a publication program that advances humanistic scholarship in the area of cross-cultural contacts

Cross-Cultural Contacts Publication Program

to strengthen student and faculty engagement with the collections at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Art Museums and the Curriculum

to support a national infrastructure for cross-sector partnerships among artists, cultural organizations, and local arts agencies

Strengthening National Capacity and Visibility for Cross-Sector Arts Partnerships

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

The Three College Collaboration

to strengthen the academic role of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum’s collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Spendable

to support a network of institutional partnerships to advance digital humanities scholarship

Cross-Institutional Networks of Support for Digital Humanities

to support an undergraduate program incorporating cross-disciplinary, project-based courses in design, engineering, and the arts and humanities

Cross-Disciplinary, Project-Based Courses in Design, Engineering, and the Arts and Humanities

toward costs of the Plan for Mount Holyoke 2003

The Plan for Mount Holyoke 2003

to support the establishment of a research and development program at the National Library of the Czech Republic for the preservation of water-damaged materials

National Library of the Czech Republic 

to support a forum on fostering greater inclusion of low-income students in higher education, entitled "Politics of Inclusion: Higher Education at a Crossroad"

The Politics of Inclusion:  Higher Education at a Crossroad

to support a forum on the future of the liberal arts college

Future of the Liberal Arts College 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads"

Sawyer Seminar: Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads

to support a New Directions fellowship for Sabra Thorner

New Directions Fellowship: Digital Stewardship, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Archival Justice: The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art

to support research on the changing composition of university faculty

Faculty Research Study - Goldenberg and Cross

to support the transfer of humanities students from The Community College of Baltimore County to Johns Hopkins University, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

Community College-University Partnerships

to support the development of a series of new humanities-oriented First Year Experience courses

Borders and Crossings: Exploring Global Questions at the University of Michigan-Flint

to support crossdisciplinary artistic projects

Single-Choreographer Dance Companies

to continue support for Humanities for All, a partnership program with Johns Hopkins University that promotes the transfer of community college students to four-year institutions and innovative teaching practices in the humanities

matching grant toward costs of curricular development and library automation at the American College ofThessaloniki

Curriculum Development and Library Automation for the American College of Thessaloniki

to support cross-institutional administrative and academic collaboration with St. Olaf College

Broadening the Bridge

to support the preparation of a comprehensive study of technology transfer in the context of library automation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

EEP - History of Technology Transfer

to support pilot studies of the academic performance of undergraduate students

Institutional Studies of Undergraduate Academic Performance

to support innovation in the humanities curriculum

Incubating Inclusion and Innovation in the Liberal Arts

to support curricular, admissions, and financial initiatives that strengthen institutional sustainability

Centers of Excellence

to support institutionally based studies of the requirements for and use of scholarly information

Cross Institutional User Study

as permanent endowment, to be matched two-to-one within four years, to support the College of Film and the Moving Image

College of Film and the Moving Image

to support a planning process focused on the academic programs of the college

Academic Life

to study the consequences of making the SAT exam optional for admission to the college

SAT Exam Study

to support discretionary initiatives at the early stage of a liberal arts college president’s career

to support innovative programming and a new position aimed at strengthening the academic achievement of first-generation college students and members of disadvantaged groups

Senior President

to support faculty bridge appointments, curricular renewal, and collaboration with consortium partners

Bridge Appointments for Reimagining and Restructuring the Liberal Arts Curriculum

to increase transfer rates of Ilisagvik College students to four-year degree programs by implementing articulation agreements between Ilisagvik and four-year Alaskan, Northwest, and other tribal colleges/universities

Supporting Student Success through Increased College Readiness and the Facilitation of Articulation Agreements

to support collaboration between the College and its Alumnae Association

Mid-Career Presidential Leadership

to sustain the Community Colleges Project to strengthen humanities teaching in the seven community colleges of the City University and in others nearby

Community College Project

to strengthen the teaching of humanities in community colleges, principally in the CUNY system

in support of efforts to adapt artistic and organizational  goals to a changing economic environment

Dance Company Special Initiative

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" 