Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support the Choreography Fellowship Program

Choreography Fellowship Program

2004 Dance Festival

to support subsidized rehearsal space for the professional nonprofit dance field

Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy

Fall for Dance Festival

to support the 2005 Fall for Dance Festival

to endow and support the Fall for Dance Festival

Fall for Dance Festival Endowment

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 the People’s Commissioning Fund and New York City performances

The People's Commissioning Fund and New York City Performances

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

Development Department

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

Ballet Program

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 support services to the dance field in New York City

Dance/NYC

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

Dance Rehearsal Space Re-granting Planning

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

Family Planning Services

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

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 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

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

Center for Biomedical Education

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"

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 a research seminar on the public humanities at the Center for the Humanities

Humanities Center Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research

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 the New York Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

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 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 continue support for the New York Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program

to prepare a report on demographic, economic, and technological trends within The City of New York and surrounding region

Urban Research Center

New Directions Fellowship (Wilder)

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

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Wilder)

Center for the Humanities: Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for its repertoire

to support the expansion of the New York State Humanities Center Initiative

Humanities Center Initiative

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

in support of the activities of The Fund for New Citizens

New York City's Immigrants

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

Undergraduate Teaching

to analyze and demonstrate methods proven successful in raising levels of student achievement in a number of public elementary and secondary schools in New York and other major cities

Public Schools

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 New Directions Fellowship for Christopher Loperena

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

to support research and training programs in the field of forced migration

Forced Migration Center

to provide general operating support, as part of the New York Theater Program

Emeritus Fellowships 

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" 