campus partner(s)

CUNY Baruch

state(s)

NY

amount

$50,000

initiative

Cornerstone: Learning for Living

award date

05.2025

project director

Cheryl Smith; Sandeep Sreekumar

Grant Summary

$50,000 over 12 months to develop a common intellectual experience in Baruch’s new first-year seminar (FYS), required of incoming students and organized around a list of five texts chosen to facilitate discussions of academic inquiry. Baruch faculty will also develop a core-text stream through general education, making interventions in a required two-semester college writing sequence and a set of general education courses spanning Philosophy, Literature, and Social Sciences.