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Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education

Academic-Residential Co-Curriculum

VPUE’s Academic-Residential Co-Curriculum (ARC) program aims to connect undergraduates with faculty and academic staff. ARC seeks to enhance undergraduates’ opportunities to form lasting professional relationships and networks, and to develop lifelong mentors. 

ARC supports co-curricular and community building opportunities to enhance undergraduates' ability to form lasting professional connections with academic mentors who are invested in students' success.

Professor Larry Diamond and small group of undergraduate students sit around a wooden table outside for a photo.

Professor Larry Diamond and a group of undergraduate students reflect on their work on Democracy Day. 

We focus on:

  • developing spaces for intellectual and academic exchange and conversation outside the formal classroom;
  • providing significantly enhanced opportunities for faculty-student connection and network-building; 
  • helping develop friendly events and mixers for mentorship and informal advising;
  • supporting efforts to nurture students’ confidence, positivity, and sense of belonging; 
  • building faculty understanding of students—their lives, ambitions, and interests.

Examples of programs run or supported by ARC:

  • Site visit to the Tenderloin and Urban Alchemy led by Professor Forrest Stuart
  • A weekend at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR led by Linda Paulson
  • "Heartrender" - A Student-generated project, Zach Lo and Ben Schwartz
  • Ancient Egypt in California (San Jose and Los Angeles) led by Professor Grant Parker
  • "Family Dinners" hosted by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice
  • "Negotiating Transitions" panel with the Distinguished Careers Institute for Transfer students 
  • Small group coffee hours with Faculty and Senior Lecturers (such as Professor Jamil Zaki, Senior Lecturer Nick Parlante) led by Jennifer Randall Crosby 

Grant funding opportunities by ARC:

Students posing for a group photo outside in Ashland, Oregon.

ARC Grants

ARC grants are open to all faculty, instructors, and students. The essential requirement for an ARC grant is that the funded activity will foster a space for undergraduate students to interact and develop intellectually and professionally beneficial relationships with their faculty and instructors. 

Learn more about ARC Grants
Özgen Felek teaching her undergraduate course 'Islamic Manuscript Illumination: History, Theory and Practice'.

Nexus Departmental Grant

Open to academic departments and pre-professional organizations, the Nexus Departmental Grant primarily focuses on supporting academic community building solutions, peer mentoring, and honors support.

Apply to a Nexus Departmental Grant
Students posing for a group photo in a theater.

Nexus Residential Grants

Nexus Residential Grants are open to non-academic themed (i.e. non UTH-As) undergraduate residences. The grant aims to foster environments that allow undergraduate students to interact and develop intellectually and professionally beneficial relationships with their faculty and instructors in our all-residential campus. 

Learn more about Nexus Residential Grants

Photos ARC Funded Activities

A sampling of photos of ARC funded programs and activities led by faculty. 

Tesla tour leader Raul Comecho shares with a few undergraduate students a tear down of the electric motor built at Gigafactory
Tesla tour leader Raul Comecho shares with undergraduate students a tear down of the electric motor built at Gigafactory.
Approximately 30 residents of Well House in San Francisco taking a group photo in theater seats to watch Broadway Musical on tour.
Residents of Well House in San Francisco to watch Broadway Musical on tour.
Undergraduate students listen to the tour leader at Urban Alchemy explain the history of the Tenderloin in San Francisco.
Undergraduate students listen to the tour leader at Urban Alchemy explain the history of the Tenderloin in San Francisco.
Professor Grant Parker and a group of 10 undergraduates visiting the Los Angeles Getty Villa. Professor Parker is pointing out something in the distance to the students.
Professor Grant Parker pointing out something in the distance to a group of undergraduate students at the Los Angeles Getty Villa.
Approximately 50 undergraduate students of ITALIC taking a group picture.
ITALIC students visiting San Francisco Art museums.
Professor Rodolfo Dirzo speaking with undergraduate students at TomKat Ranch
Professor Rodolfo Dirzo speaking with undergraduate students outdoors in a circle at TomKat Ranch.

More opportunities to connect and work with ARC

ARC Advisory Board:

  • Moses Charikar, Donald E. Knuth Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Mathematics | Computer Science
  • Jennifer Randall Crosby, Psych One Coordinator | Department of Psychology | Resident Fellow in Soto
  • Stephen Monismith, Obayashi Professor in the School of Engineering | Professor of Oceans | Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature | Classics | Resident Fellow in Toyon
  • Laura Schlosberg, Assistant Dean of Academic and Curriculum Support | H&S Dean's Office
  • Alice Staveley, Senior Lecturer | Department of English
  • Elaine Treharne, Senior Associate Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education | Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English | Robert K. Packard University Fellow in Undergraduate Education | Director, Stanford Text Technologies | Department of English

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