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.

Tangible Working Group outcomes are added to Working Group pages, and Corridor-supported publications (directly or indirectly) are now being compiled on our Publications page.

During the 2024-25 academic year:

$293k in Corridor funding directly supported faculty research and collaboration across all 11 participating campuses.
83% of those funds went directly to over 50 Working Groups hosting more than 150 activities across our region.
Those Working Groups are led by the efforts of 220 faculty/staff Organizers.
Working Groups engaged more than 3,400 people involving participants from over 150 colleges, universities, K-12 schools, religious organizations, non-profits, publishers, booksellers, museums from at least 25 U.S. states and over 20 countries around the globe.

Programming to Bolster Faculty Research:

We hosted 30 participants at the annual Minnowbrook Writing Retreat in October 2024 providing time, strategies, and scholarly community for the participants.
Janet Salmons led a December workshop on Academic Peer Review Strategies: How to Give (and Receive) Feedback, highlighting the importance of peer review and offering tips on how to give constructive feedback to colleagues and how to deal with negative or conflicting reviews.
In February, the Corridor convened a roundtable with academic press editors who shared their expertise toward demystifying the academic publishing process: Getting Your Book Published.

2024-25 by the Numbers

We continue to see a robust spread of activities across our 11 institutions. Notably over the past year, we saw a notable increase in participation rates from some of the smaller institutions in our consortium.

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 2026.

Since Fall 2019, the Corridor has awarded more than $1.5 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 2026 demonstrating $1,504,362 in Corridor investments in humanities research.