Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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 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 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 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 higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support)

for use by its Graduate School and University Center toward costs of a workshop in Prague, Czechoslovakia on transportation and logistics management

EEP - Prague Workshop

for use by the Center for Logistics and Transportation of the Graduate School and University Center for the purpose of completing the Foundation’s support of market logistics workshops in Hungary

EEP - Market Logistics Workshops

to support new "Mellon Seminars: Issues in Interpretation"

Mellon Seminars: Issues in Interpretation

to support an undergraduate writing program

Writing Improvement Program for New Americans

to support the further development of ethnic studies across the CUNY system

Ethnic Studies

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 the further development of Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies across the CUNY system

Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI)

toward costs of exploring the development of a television program on issues in the arts

CUNY-TV

toward support of an evaluation of a market-logistics management workshop held in Prague, Czech Republic

EEP - Prague Workshop Evaluation

in support of seminars in literature and history for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

Dissertation Seminars

toward costs of programs to advance business training and development in Eastern Europe

EEP - Business Training

matching grant in support of the project Repertoire lnternationale de Litterature Musicale

Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale

for use by the PhD Program in Anthropology in support of a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Visiting Fellowships

towards costs of a special Lacunae issue in the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale abstracts series

Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale - Special Lacunae Issue

to support scholarships in the undergraduate honors program

Honors College

to support scholarships for students in the Honors College program

to support the CUNY Cultural Corps program

CUNY Cultural Corps

to support a program to strengthen pedagogy across the CUNY system

Transformative Learning in Humanities

to support the Chancellor's Emergency Relief Grant Program for students impacted by the COVID-19 crisis

Chancellor's Emergency Relief Grant Program

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

Macaulay Honors College Transfer Project 

to support a retention and promotion program for underrepresented and other early-career faculty

CUNY Mellon Faculty Diversity Career Enhancement Initiative

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

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

to strengthen its graduate programs and undergraduate teaching in the four-year colleges of the City University

Undergraduate Teaching

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

for use by the Inter-University Program for Lattino Research at Hunter College to support its project "The Global Society and the Latino Community

Inter-University Program for Latino Research

to support the role of the Center for the Humanities in the instructional and scholarly activities of the university

University Humanities Centers

to support initiatives at the Center for the Humanities aimed at strengthening its role in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role the Center for the Humanities plays in the instruction and scholarly activities of the University

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role that the Center for the Humanities plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the university

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

toward costs of the Database of Classical Bibliography

Database of Classical Bibliography

New Directions Fellowship (Wilder)

for use by its Graduate School and University Center to organize and conduct a course in Budapest on market-oriented logistics and transportation management

Post-Program Implementation Course in Budapest

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Christopher Loperena

New Directions Fellowship: Fighting to Stay in Place: Race, Climate, and Geographies of Loss

to support ongoing scholarly activities by former New Directions Fellowship recipient Gary Wilder

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Wilder)

to support the continuation of the Mellon Seminar in the Humanities for the 2013-2014 academic year

to support the digitization, publication, and repatriation of audio and film recordings of traditional Indonesian music dating from the first half of the 20th century

Restoration, Dissemination, and Repatriation of the Earliest Music Recordings and Films in Bali

for support of the University-Urban Schools Task Force Project

Urban Schools Task Force

for support of a humanities fellows program in collaboration with the senior four-year colleges of the University system

Postdoctoral Fellowships

for support the University-Urban Schools Task Force

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - New Immigrants and American Society

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia"

Sawyer Seminars: Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Differences"

Sawyer Seminars - Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Differences

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Cultures and Histories of Freedom: Ideology, Slavery, and Creolization, 1500-1900"

Sawyer Seminar: "Cultures and Histories of Freedom: Ideology, Slavery, and Creolization, 1500-1900"

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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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" 