Research Foundation of the City University of New York
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As a final grant for Scholar Mobility
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Academics in parts of the broader Middle East are facing critical challenges to scholarly productivity and scholar mobility. With Carnegie support, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) launched ‘the Global Academy’ initiative in 2019 to complement traditional scholar mobility programs. The Global Academy connects displaced scholars with their colleagues based in North America, sustains research collaboration, and rebuilds ruptured professional networks through professional development, competitive scholarships, and facilitation of research and publication. With renewed support, the Global Academy willexpand offerings to fellows, including with peer-support groups, research scholarships, andsupport for professional development.
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For research collaborations and professional development for displaced Middle East scholars
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
0 months
Description
Academics in parts of the broader Middle East are facing critical challenges to scholarly productivity and scholar mobility. With Corporation support, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Middle East Studies Association launched an initiative in 2019 to complement traditional scholar mobility programs. The Global Academy connects displaced scholars with their colleagues based in North America, sustains research collaboration, and rebuilds ruptured professional networks through professional development, competitive scholarships, and facilitation of research and publication. With continued support, the Global Academy will increase the number of awarded scholarships, include scholars from Afghanistan in addition to scholars from the Arab region, and raise the number of partner universities in the network. Corporation funds will be earmarked toward workshops, scholarships, staff costs, publications, academic conferences, and research travel grants.
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For capacity building to expand the College Access: Research & Action (CARA) model outside of New York City
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
College Access: Research & Action (CARA) ensures that first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color have the knowledge and support necessary to enroll in and persist through college. While students need opportunities to learn about college and career pathways, most public schools and institutions of higher education are not structured to provide this assistance. Since 2011, CARA’s programs, research, and policy work have addressed these inequities. CARA works with high schools, community-based organizations, and higher education institutions to move access and success guidance from an ‘enrichment for some’ to an ‘entitlement for all’ model. CARA then uses its programs as laboratories for research on college access and persistence issues, utilizing learning to advocate for more equitable higher education policies. Support from the Corporation will allow CARA to introduce its models and expand its work beyond the East Coast to a wider group of students across the country.
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For strengthening research and writing capacity of early-career African social scientists and linking them to global scholarly communities
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
48 months
Description
Early-career social scientists based at African institutions are faced with limited professional opportunities to network globally and to publish in established international academic outlets. The Project on African Social Research (PASR), launched in 2020 with Corporation support, is a global network of leading scholars seeking to address this gap by providing opportunities for mentoring and research collaboration for early-career African scholars, as well as access to international networks that can facilitate publication in leading journals and media outlets. With continued Corporation support, the network will lead collaborative research and publication support workshops for African researchers, and build visibility for African scholars and PASR with a podcast, magazine, and lecture series.
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For support to extend the College Connect Peer-to-Peer program into the summer before matriculation
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Since 2011 College Access: Research & Action (CARA) has ensured that first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color have the knowledge and support necessary to enroll in and persist through college. While students need opportunities to learn about college and career pathways, most New York City public schools and institutions of higher education are not structured to provide this assistance. One of CARA’s primary program models is the Peer-to-Peer Model that addresses the gap in college access and completion guidance by empowering a range of young people to work within their own institutions to support their peers through post-secondary exploration, the college application and matriculation processes, and/or through college. CARA intends to work in collaboration with The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Central Office of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, and a set of CUNY partner campuses on “CUNY College Connect” – a program that will implement a CUNY-wide peer-to-peer advisement system that will support students through matriculation, year one of college, and beyond. Corporation support will contribute to CUNY College Connect by providing funding for Peer Leader pay.
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For capacity building to expand the College Access: Research & Action (CARA) model outside of New York City
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Since 2011 College Access: Research & Action (CARA) has ensured that first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color have the knowledge and support necessary to enroll in and persist through college. While students need opportunities to learn about college and career pathways, most New York City public schools and institutions of higher education are not structured to provide this assistance. CARA’s programs, research, and policy work address these inequities. CARA works with high schools, community-based organizations, and higher education institutions to move access and success guidance from an ‘enrichment for some’ to an ‘entitlement for all’ model. CARA then use its programs as laboratories for research on issues of college access and persistence, utilizing learnings to advocate for more equitable higher education policies. Support from the Corporation will allow CARA to bring these approaches and models to a wider group of students across the countryat a critical inflection point due to the impact of COVID-19 on education. High schools,universities and community-based organizations are all rethinking their existing work, and may be compelled by the type ofinstitutional change that CARA advocates for.
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For creating college advising resources for students and counselors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
3 months
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented disruption of our public education system,withparticularly direconsequencesforstudents at key transition points of their learning experiences. Rising high school seniors and their familieswill face increasedchallenges as theybegin the college application processwithout the support of in-person counselors and information sessions andwill experience heighteneduncertainty about admissions processes and economic circumstances.The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Office of K-16 Initiatives serves as a bridge for the 60 percent of New York Citypublichigh school students that go on to enroll in the CUNY system,ensuringthat students are supported on their pathsfrom high schoolto and throughCUNY.Thisgrantwill allowCUNYtoprovidevirtualcollege guidancesupportusing an online platform developed with previous Corporation support. This will includethedevelopment and dissemination ofup-to-date informationand targeted messagingabout admissions processesin light ofthe pandemic to support rising high school seniors, their families, and their counselors.
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For strengthening research and writing capacity of early-career African social scientists and linking them to global scholarly communities
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
38 months
Description
Early-career social scientists based at African institutions are faced with limited professional opportunities to network globally and to publish in established international academic outlets. The Project on African Social Research, a pilot global network of leading scholars based on the successful model adopted by the Project on Middle Eastern Political Science, aims to address this gap by providing opportunities for mentoring and research collaboration for early-career African scholars as well as access to international networks that can facilitate publication in leading journals and media outlets. With support, the network will recruit a prominent board to guide transdisciplinary and transregional social science research, host two initial Africa-based workshops for junior and senior scholars, and provide publication support.
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For research collaborations and professional development for displaced Middle East scholars
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
Deteriorating conditions for academics in parts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are affecting scholarly productivity, access to field sites, and scholar mobility. The current scholar rescue and scholar mobility support programs do not adequately meet with needs of the displaced communities. In consultation with leading scholar mobility providers, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Middle East Studies Association have designed a Global Academy to fill existing gaps. Through an established network of transregional institutional partnerships, this multi-funder initiative will: forge peer-to-peer networks; identify professional opportunities; and sustain research collaborations, mentoring, and knowledge production among displaced MENA-based scholars and their counterparts outside the region. Corporation funds will support workshops, publications, a new website, academic conferences, and grants for travel and research.
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For piloting the Ready to Succeed program
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
15 months
Description
Approximately sixty percent of New York City public school graduates who go on to attend college enroll at the City University of New York (CUNY), creating a unique opportunity for the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) and CUNY to work together to improve college persistence outcomes for these students. With this goal in mind, and with current Corporation support, CUNY conducted planning work for its proposed Ready to Succeed (RtS) program. RtS is a research-based intervention which aims to provide eleventh grade New York City public school students with customized information regarding college admission, affordability, and recommended actions to improve their odds of earning a college degree. This renewal grant will support CUNY to incorporate the lessons of the planning period into a RtS pilot program with at least four high schools, positioning CUNY to better understand the feasibility and potential impacts of a large-scale implementation of RtS.
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For planning the City of New York Early Entry program
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
10 months
Description
Four-year graduation rates in New York City’s public high schools are at an all-time high of 74 percent, and the City University of New York (CUNY) has also made progress in improving college graduation rates across its campuses. However, too many public school graduates continue to enter the CUNY system unprepared, and more work remains to be done such that college readiness and completion can keep pace with high school graduation. Since approximately 60 percent of New York City public school graduates who go on to attend college enroll at CUNY, there is a unique opportunity for the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) and CUNY to work together to improve outcomes for these students. With Corporation support, CUNY will plan to launch an experimental program, CUNY Early Entry, that will deliver customized messages and guidance to NYCDOE eleventh and twelfth graders with the goal of helping them take specific actions to enhance their likelihood of success in college.
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For implementing programs at a new community college
Date
Jun. 09, 2011
Duration
18 months
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Toward planning for a new community college
Date
Sep. 10, 2009
Duration
12 months
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Toward its Executives on Campus program at Baruch College, in honor of Edward Sermier
Date
Jun. 11, 2009
Duration
39 months
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Toward support of the Hyperlocal News Project, an innovative student reporting partnership with The New York Times
Date
Jun. 11, 2009
Duration
39 months
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Toward a planning grant for the expansion and replication of Gateway schools
Date
Mar. 05, 2009
Duration
14 months
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Toward a conference on educational equity
Date
Jun. 14, 2007
Duration
18 months
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Academic Leadership Award in recognition of CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
Date
Jun. 14, 2007
Duration
24 months
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For exit polling and analysis to evaluate the impact of immigrant voter mobilization efforts in New York City
Date
Mar. 01, 2007
Duration
32 months
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For research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on states at risk
Date
Jun. 08, 2006
Duration
33 months
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One-time funding toward a feasibility study on establishing a research institute focused on philanthropy
Date
Mar. 03, 2005
Duration
12 months
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For a high school leadership development program
Date
Dec. 02, 2004
Duration
24 months