By the Numbers

The CNY Humanities Corridor continues to foster scholarly research connections and intellectual community among our institutions, throughout our region, and far beyond the geographical boundaries of Central New York.

During the 2023-24 academic year:

$296k in Corridor funding directly supported faculty research and collaboration across all 11 participating campuses.
84% of those funds went directly to over 60 Working Groups hosting more than 155 activities across our region.
Working Groups connected with over 160 institutions and organizations across at least 30 states, several Canadian provinces, and 15 countries around the world.
More than 5,500 people participated in Corridor activities.

Programming to Bolster Faculty Research:

The National Endowment for the Humanities visited us on March 1, 2024 with a site visit featuring wisdom from Claudia Kinkela, senior program officer and director of NEH Fellowships Programs. Over 120 people registered for this hybrid workshop, with participation from 22 arts and humanities institutions across the region, including all 11 Corridor schools.
In December, we hosted a roundtable on Open Access publishing in humanities fields. You can find the recording and a list of OA publishing resources on the Corridor’s website.
We hosted 34 participants at the annual Minnowbrook Writing Retreat in October 2023 providing time, tools, and connection for the participants.
Anthony Ocampo (NCFDD) led a workshop, Every Summer Needs a Plan, aimed at helping faculty transition into a writing and research plan for the summer.

2023-24 by the Numbers

We continue to see a robust spread of activities across our 11 institutions.

A pie chart showing the percentage breakdown of Corridor activities by institution.

* Other institutions are Colgate, Hamilton, HWS, Le Moyne, RIT, Skidmore, St. Lawrence, and Union.

Likewise, our programs budget–which includes Working Group awards and research support workshops and retreats–benefits scholars across all of our campuses, aligning roughly by size of the institution.

A pie chart showing the distribution of the Corridor's programs budget being directed to the 3 R1 campuses in relation to the other 8 campuses.

A pie chart demonstrating the breakdown of Corridor programs budget supporting the 8 non-R1 schools in our consortium.

Funding History over Time

The Corridor has funded Working Groups at an increasing rate over time, and we continue to see strong interest each year during our Call for Proposal periods.

A chart outlining Working Group funds awarded and proposals received from Fiscal Year 2020 through Fiscal Year 2025.

Since Fall 2019, the Corridor has awarded nearly $1.25 million in funding to our collaborative Working Groups supporting humanities research.

A graph of cumulative Working Group Awards by campus from Fall 2019 through Spring 2025 demonstrating $1,225,744 in Corridor investments in humanities research.