We are thankful to a cohort of Davidson faculty willing to share their grant success expertise across all academic divisions, in the video links below.

We look forward to meeting with you.

Humanities and Arts: https://youtu.be/YQ5dGYqUyOo

Social Sciences: https://youtu.be/p7O71jhybwM

Natural Sciences: https://youtu.be/1u5zzT_E7_Y

Funding for the project “Before #MeToo: How Women Historically Navigated Higher Education at the ACS Schools,” was awarded to the faculty and archivist collaborative team representing five ACS schools: Centenary College of Louisiana, Centre College, Davidson College, University of Richmond and Rollins College, to focus on the historical experiences of women on their campuses. Learn more about Inclusive Histories of Davidson College here.

Grant project outcomes include developing courses which engage student archival research and presentations; contribute to or develop digital archives and oral history; publishing research findings, pedagogy, and outcomes of archives – department partnerships.

The ACS “strengthens and showcases liberal arts education through collaboration” sponsoring professional and curricular development, and shared equipment and service purchases across it’s sixteen member institutions.

Professor Stremlau’s grant activity includes: Native Foodways; and Mellon Visiting Professor of Justice, Equality, and Community in Anthropology, Courtney Lewis, both funded by the Davidson College Justice, Equality and Community initiative; Stories Yet to be Told: Race, Racism and Accountability on Campus, funded by Stories Yet to be Told: Race, Racism and Accountability Davidson College initiative; the OpEd Project; and Memory Chairs project, each funded by Faculty of the Future, Davidson College initiative. 

Jessica Cottle’s grant activity culminated in the creation of the Justice, Equality and Community (JEC) Initiative archive, funded by the Justice, Equality and Community Davidson College initiative.

In addition to this award, Library Archives and Digital Learning have been instrumental in partnering with students and faculty on curricular and co-curricular projects funded by Justice, Equality and Community (JEC); and Stories Yet to be Told (SYTBT): Race Racism and Accountability on Campus college initiatives. Additional information on the Excellence in Academic Libraries Award and the Library’s campus engagement may be found here.

We commend the Library on this extraordinary accomplishment and thank them for their continued partnership.

The Office of Grants and Contracts congratulates Director and Curator of the Van Every/Smith Galleries, Lia Newman, on a grant from the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) through the COVID-19 Emergency RFP Round, to provide digital access to the college’s permanent art collection.

The collection includes over 3,900 works by such artists as Rembrandt, Picasso, Matisse, de Kooning, Motherwell, Bearden, Kollwitz, and Hockney, and only a small number are highlighted on the Galleries’ web site. The ACS grant will allow the creation of an expanded online database so that students and faculty who have current needs related to the collection can have access to the artworks.

While the short-term goal is access for courses that are being taught online due to COVID-19, having the expanded permanent art collection online will be a resource to faculty and students both at Davidson and other ACS schools beyond the period of the pandemic.

The Van Every/Smith Galleries play a fundamental role in the pedagogical life of Davidson College and the surrounding community. The Galleries provide a challenging forum for the on-going presentation, interpretation, and discussion of primarily contemporary artworks in all media, nurturing individual thinking, developing visual literacy, and inspiring a lifelong commitment to the arts.