Consortium Members

Allegheny College
American University
Arizona State University
Auburn University
Bates College
Bellarmine University
Brown University
California Institute of the Arts
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Carleton College
Clark University
Colgate University
Columbia College, Chicago
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Drew University
Eastern Connecticut State University
Emerson College
Emory University
Fordham University
Grand Rapids Community College
Hamilton College
Hampshire College
Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis
Kennesaw State University
Lafayette College
Loyola University New Orleans
Macalester College
Marlboro College
Maryland Institute College of Art
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Michigan State University
Missouri State University
Nassau Community College
New York University
Northeastern University
North Carolina State University
Occidental College
Ohio State University
Oklahoma State University
Pennsylvania State University
Portland State University
Purdue University
Regis University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Richland College
Rutgers University
Southern Oregon University
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
Tulane University
University at Albany, SUNY
University at Buffalo, SUNY
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
University of California, Davis
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California,
Santa Barbara
University of Delaware
University of Florida
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of New Mexico
University of Notre Dame
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at San Antonio
University of Virginia
University of Washington, Bothell
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Vanderbilt University
Virginia Tech
Wagner College
Wesleyan University
Western Kentucky University
Winona State University
Xavier University of Louisiana

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University of Texas at Austin

President: William C. Powers, Jr.

Consortium Representative:
Evan Carton
Professor, English Department
University of Texas at Austin
HRC 3.350
Campus Mail Code: B5000
Austin, TX 78713-7219
humecart@austin.utexas.edu

Featured Program

The Humanities Institute
Founded in 2001, the Humanities Institute at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the youngest centers for the humanities at major American universities. It is also among the most innovative in its mission and in the scope and character of the community partnership and public humanities programs that it sponsors. The Institute has gained widespread recognition both for interdisciplinary academic programs that have broadened and deepened collaborative inquiry and collegiality on the UT campus and for civic initiatives that have helped place UT-Austin in the vanguard of a national trend to bring intellectual engagement with local communities from the margins to the center of the public university's mission.

Projects such as the Community Sabbatical Research Leave Program, the Free Minds Project and Living Newspapers Across the Curriculum, and collaborative and participatory public forums on such subjects as Religion, Politics, and Values, have begun to shift the dominant paradigm of university-community relations from an "outreach" or "service" model to one in which the academy not only dispenses knowledge but also recognizes, supports, collaborates with, and learns from the citizens and organizations that are producing knowledge every day beyond its walls. Organizational partners for past and current Humanities Institute programs have included Austin Community College, the Austin History Center Association, the Austin Lyric Opera, the Office of the Mayor of Austin, the Austin Public Library, Austin Area Interreligious Ministries, Foundation Communities, KLRU TV, the Lyndon Baynes Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Seton Cove Spirituality Center, and more than twenty Central Texas schools and school districts.