Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to develop the general education curriculum in its College of Liberal Arts and Science

General-Education Curriculum

to assist its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in relating undergraduate programs in the liberal arts to preprofessional studies and public policy issues

Undergraduate Programs

to support planning for a program of renewal and innovation in the humanities

Curriculum of Engagement

to support the college’s reinstatement into the Mellon Minority University Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support the one-year renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

toward the costs of urban medical training at its Center for Biomedical Education

Center for Biomedical Education

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in fields of the arts and sciences

to support the creation of a fellowship program for threatened scholars from the Dominican Republic based out of the Dominican Studies Institute, as part of a network within the Crossing Latinidades consortium at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Visiting Fellowship for Socially Engaged Scholars

to support the development of a multidisciplinary incubator focused on community-based partnerships and projects that engage built environment design and the humanities through a social justice lens

Place, Memory, and Culture Incubator

to support the renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2009 Renewal

to support internship programming for humanities students

Humanities Internships Program

for use in the current academic year as a President's discretionary fund

President's Discretionary Fund

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2006 Renewal

in support of family planning services in New York City

New York Family Planning

in support of family-planning services in New York City

to support core operations through the New York Theater Program

New York Theater Program

to support scholarships for students in the Honors College program

Honors College

to sustain the Community Colleges Project to strengthen humanities teaching in the seven community colleges of the City University and in others nearby

Community College Project

to support a pilot transfer program between Bronx Community College and Macaulay Honors College

Macaulay Honors College Transfer Project 

to support food security activities on City University of New York campuses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

CUNY Campaign for a Food Secure CUNY

to support the development of infrastructure and staff for strengthening the institutional archives of the City University of New York

Cultivating Archives and Institutional Memory at “The People’s University”

to support adjunct faculty impacted by COVID-related budget cuts and sustain humanities offerings at the City University of New York

Adjunct Faculty Support

to support food security, health and mental health care, and housing assistance activities on City University of New York campuses

Comprehensive Access to Resources for Essential Services

to facilitate planning for the maintenance of adequate family planning services in New York City

Family Planning Services

to support a study focusing on specific factors that might influence the transfer of community college students with interests in the humanities

Community College Students Majoring in the Humanities: Transfer and Attainment of Bachelor's Degrees

to support analyses of New York City neighborhood networks and the development of asset and power mapping tools

Reimagining New York City - From the Neighborhood Up

to continue support for a humanities teacher training and pipeline initiative in partnership with four New York City community colleges

Humanities Training and Pipeline Initiative

toward support of the Development Department of the New York City Opera

Development Department

to support the People’s Commissioning Fund and New York City performances

The People's Commissioning Fund and New York City Performances

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the New York City Ballet

Ballet Program

to support scholarships in the undergraduate honors program

to support services to the dance field in New York City

Dance/NYC

toward costs of its project "Improving Newcomer Access to City Services"

City Services Access

toward support of the project "Improving Newcomer Access to City Services"

in support of The Making of New York project, a digital collection of material on the history of New York drawn from 11 major libraries

Making of New York

to support planning for a re-granting program for dance rehearsal space in New York City

Dance Rehearsal Space Re-granting Planning

to support one annual cycle of program renewals at institutions hosting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: Barnard, Bowdoin, Brooklyn, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Claremont, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Haverford, Hunter, Macalester, Oberlin, Queens, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Whittier, and Williams Colleges; City College of New York; Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Heritage, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, Yale, and Wesleyan Universities; the Universities of California at Berkeley, and Los Angeles; the Universities of Chicago, Cape Town, Southern California, the Western Cape, the Witwatersrand, United Negro College Fund, Inc., and Washington University in St. Louis

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Annual Renewals

to support mapping of New York City’s Black, Indigenous, People of Color led and serving cultural entities, a collaboration with Hester Street and Museum Hue

Mapping BIPOC Cultural Orgs in New York City

in support of its Community Colleges Project

to strengthen the teaching of humanities in community colleges, principally in the CUNY system

to support a catalogue for the "Byzantine Bembe: New York by Manny Vega" exhibition

Manny Vega Catalogue

in support of the activities of The Fund for New Citizens

New York City's Immigrants

to support a study of the effects of the City University of New York’s "open admissions" policy on low-income students and their children

Open Admissions - Second Generation Effects

toward support of a study to develop models for graduate-level consortial arrangements among five institutions in New York City

New York Graduate Consortium Project

toward equipment and reinstallation costs in connection with the construction of a new wing to the Museum's main building

New Wing

to support one annual cycle of program renewals at institutions hosting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship:  Barnard, Bowdoin, Brooklyn, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Hunter, Macalester, Oberlin, Queens, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Whittier, and Williams Colleges; Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Haverford, Heritage, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, Wesleyan, and Yale Universities; the Universities of California at Berkeley, at Los Angeles, and at Riverside; the Universities of Cape Town, Chicago, New Mexico, Southern California, Texas at Austin, the Western Cape, and the Witwatersrand; the California Institute of Technology; the City College of New York; The Claremont Colleges, Inc.; United Negro College Fund, Inc.; and Washington University in St. Louis

MMUF Annual Renewals

to support the development and expansion of prison education and reentry initiatives, in collaboration with the City University of New York 

Expanding Access to Higher Education in New York State Prisons

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 