campus partner(s)

SUNY Cortland

state(s)

NY

amount

$225,000

initiative

Cornerstone: Learning for Living

award date

05.2026

project director

Anisha Saxena; Andrea Harbin; Benjamin Wilson

Grant Summary

$225,000 over 24 months to implement the Books and Big Ideas initiative to create a shared humanities experience centered on transformative texts and enduring questions across the undergraduate curriculum. The initiative will establish humanities pathway courses organized around themes such as “Imagining Futures” and “Being New York,” integrating humanistic inquiry into both lower- and upper-division courses across disciplines.