Current and Recent Initiatives
Members of the Bryn Mawr College community are exploring together how innovation can happen in the liberal arts on campus.
Active Collaborations
Bryn Mawr College’s faculty, staff, and students are rarely satisfied with the status quo. In our time at the College and our lives afterwards, we push forward, testing new theories and ideas. The College has – and continues – to design, pilot, evaluate, and scale new campus-connected initiatives like the 360s, TriCo Philly, and College Sustainability work to best support the students, faculty, and alumnae/i at our core. As we build the college’s next chapter, we do so aware of so many ideas sparked and germinated on campus and in the small and mighty alumni community. Join us and apply for a pilot grant here. Projects currently in process or recently concluded include the following. Contact us with others.
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.