Pilot Projects
President Wendy Cadge is funding initiatives to examine how innovation can be taught across the liberal arts.
Active Collaborations
These projects are active collaborations by faculty and staff with President Cadge to enhance the experiences of our campus while serving as test cases for potential longer-term investments.
Student Spaces Project
A flash student space planning project in which students worked with a women-owned architecture firm to identify, design and renovate four campus spaces. The spaces will open in late summer 2025.
Testing Center
A testing center opened in January 2025 that enables students with academic accommodations -and the faculty teaching them -- to complete exams and other assignments with fewer barriers.
Teaching on Innovation in the Liberal Arts
Seven faculty members, led by Selby Hearth and Jose Vergara, explored how innovation is being taught in the liberal arts and engaged the campus, including alumnae/i and Board of Trustees members, in workshops titled “How can we imagine the range of what’s possible in a Bryn Mawr curriculum?”
Journalism Mentorship Initiative
Dee Matthews partnered with student journalists to enable greater learning and professional development through a political journalism course to be offered in spring 2026, as well as professional memberships to student journalism associations and a student journalist mentoring program.
Seeking Meaning and Purpose in the Liberal Arts
Bethany Schneider and the team of Allison Cook-Sather, Joel Schlosser, and Jen Callaghan received grants from, respectively, NetVue and the Educating Character Initiative at Wake Forest University, that will enable faculty across the curriculum to engage even more deeply with students in questions about meaning, purpose, and how they seek to use their liberal arts education in the world.