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.