The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the City University of New York $2 million for an innovative new faculty training initiative that will help the University reimagine the teaching of humanities in more urgent, relevant ways designed to contribute to student success and to a more equitable society.  

The gift, part of Foundation’s historic $10 million gift announced in August, will enable CUNY to establish and implement a program called Transformative Learning in the Humanities (TLH), which will engage humanities faculty who are interested in making their classes more participatory by capitalizing on the rich diversity and vast talent of CUNY students, with the ultimate goal of preparing students for a world that requires collaboration, communication, analytical reading and cross-cultural thinking.