Building the graduate writing program: a humanities-based approach to scholarly knowledge production [this grant supports the development of a graduate writing program intended to serve the high-level…

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $263,018 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (doing business as RFCUNY - Graduate Center) on September 1, 2026, under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to develop a graduate writing program using a humanities-based approach to scholarly knowledge production.

The grant funds development of a coherent, humanities-informed curriculum and pedagogy serving the high-level writing and research needs of graduate students at an R1 public university. The project aims to establish a new cross-disciplinary model of graduate-level general education. Work is performed in New York with a period of performance through June 30, 2027.

Building the graduate writing program: a humanities-based approach to scholarly knowledge production [this grant supports the development of a graduate writing program intended to serve the high-level writing and research needs of students at an R1 public university. Focused on developing a coherent, humanities-informed curriculum and pedagogy, this project is essential to the creation of a new, cross-disciplinary model of graduate-level general education.]