Box 44

Project applications, reports, and other memoranda on a grant for faculty support primarily to humanities programs. Haverford dispensed $40k for 5 yrs.), using 30K for merit and cost-of-living increases and $10k for other faculty enrichment projects, with 10K used for General Studies in 1974/75. Includes “Proposal for an Institute of Liberal Arts, renamed Committee on General Programs, for general and interdisciplinary programs, c. January 1974.

Project applications, reports and other memoranda for the Faculty Enrichment and Liberal Education grant that created the “Committee on General Programs to help promote the faculty’s growth and development, ‘particularly along cross-departments and interdisciplinary lines’” Grants were made to faculty for team teaching and new skills leave.

Small file of correspondence on project to prepare a history of the United States involvement in scientific research in the Antarctic, with attention to the ways in which the Antarctic Treaty resulted in peaceful solutions to national rivalries.

Correspondence and memoranda on Andrew W. Mellon Foundation programs for assisting faculty in the humanities division to receive retraining in their current fields or to shift fields where prospects are greater (denied) and for support of research, sabbaticals, or training of existing humanities faculty members (granted), including reports on use of funds and research applications.

Memoranda and reports on Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to encourage the establishment and/or development of imaginative ways to organize related courses and fields to advance inquiry and teaching that Haverford used for support the recently instituted Areas of Concentration program; with one report on 1989 grant of a Presidential Discretionary Fund.

Memoranda and application for grant to establish courses in Japanese language and culture as part of expansion of Bryn Mawr/Haverford East Asian Studies concentration, and memoranda and reports on progress of program and expenses.