Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support Phase II improvements to safeguard The New School's Orozco mural room

Orozco Mural Conservation Phase II

to continue support for the work of the New University in Exile Consortium

New University in Exile Consortium

to support the work of the New University in Exile Consortium and a public lecture series on the immigration narrative in the United States

Scholars in Exile and New American Narratives on Immigration

to support an initiative to strengthen diversity and civic engagement in the arts and humanities curriculum

Diversity, Engagement, and the Liberal Arts - A New Model for Curriculum and Partnership

New President

to support the Integrative PhD program combining doctoral training with digital design courses

The Integrative PhD

to support four faculty positions in the humanities and arts at Eugene Lang College

Humanities and Arts

to support the creation by Eugene Lang College of a program of arts and humanities partnerships with extra-academic enterprises

Community Partnerships Program: Liberal Arts Takes to the City

to support the development of a history program for all undergraduate students

History Across the University

to support new curricular initiatives for undergraduate students

Urban Studies

to support the development of a new Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought

Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought

to support seminars that examine the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Constitutional Design and the Politics of Difference in Mexico, Canada, and the United States

to support Eugene Lang College's curricular initiative to deepen the connections between scholarship and public engagement

Civic Liberal Arts

to support the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts in exploring potential prison initiatives and area partnerships

Prison Initiative Planning Grant

to establish a postdoctoral fellowship program to promote the hiring of scholars who would enhance diversity among faculty in the humanities

Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence

to support public dialogues about the evolution and impact of mass incarceration in the United States

States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories

to support a pilot project to bridge politically engaged art, scholarship, and public engagement at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Vera List Center for Art and Politics

to continue support for scholarship and public engagement at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Vera List Center for Art and Politics II

to support a series of workshops and seminars at Eugene Lang College to explore innovative approaches and best practices in curricular reform and faculty development at liberal arts colleges

Curricular Reform and Faculty Development

to support a plan to include a concentration on the city in the undergraduate curriculum

Undergraduate Curriculum

matching grant for appointments to the Graduate Faculty in philosophy and historical studies

Graduate Faculty

to support the recruitment and retention of faculty members and faculty-graduate student seminars in the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science

Graduate Faculty Support

for faculty appointments in the humanities

Junior Faculty Appointments

to improve liberal arts education for undergraduate students and to connect the graduate programs more closely to undergraduate education

Educational Effectiveness

to support the development by Eugene Lang College of curricula in food and water systems that will enhance its program in Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies

to support a collaboration with the University of Orange on the 400 Years of Inequality project

400 Years of Inequality

matching endowment in support of appointments to the Graduate Faculty

Graduate Faculty Appointments

to support curricular collaboration between Eugene Lang College and the American University of Paris in developing global literary studies, transnational cultural studies, and comparative urban and immigration studies

Translation, Transnationalism, & Transformation

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Imaginative Mobilities"

Sawyer Seminar: Imaginative Mobilities

in support of a Sawyer Seminar which treats the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Mass Media

toward costs of a professional-development fellowship program for East European junior faculty members in the social sciences

EEP - Social Science Fellowship Program

Sawyer Seminars - Military, Politics, and Society

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

Dissertation Seminars

to support a collections assessment, sustainability planning, and a conservation assessment of the José Clemente Orozco mural

Orozco Mural Conservation, Collections Assessment and Sustainability Planning

to support the Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography and Social Thought

Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography and Social Thought (GIDEST)

to support curricular planning at Eugene Lang College

Curriculum Planning

Emeritus Fellowships 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Currency and Empire:  Monetary Policy, Race, and Power"

Sawyer Seminar - Currency and Empire: Monetary Policy, Race, and Power

in suppon of a program in Political Economy

Political Economy Program

toward costs of social-science teaching programs in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland

EEP - Social Science

in support of its East Central Europe Project

East European Initiatives

for a program to supply books and journals to East European libraries

EEP - Book/Journal Donations

toward costs of its East and Central Europe Journal Donation program

toward costs of book and journal donations to institutions in Eastern Europe

to support planning for an Environmental and Climate Justice University Centers and Movement Partners Council

Centering Justice in Higher Education

to support strategic and curricular planning for Eugene Lang College

Eugene Lang College Strategic Plan

to support faculty recruitment and retention initiatives and postdoctoral fellowships

Faculty Recruitment and Retention/Postdoctoral Fellowships

toward costs of a computer produced microfilm catalog for the University, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and the New School for Social Research

NYU/New School/Cooper Union - Library Consolidation

in support of a study of the implementation in New Jersey of a new system of school finance

School Finance

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" 