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Next Steps for 2025-26 Awards

Confirming Your Event/Activity Details

  • In advance of each activity, Working Group Organizers must complete a Submit an Activity form at our Resources page.
  • Once reviewed, your entry will publish to the Corridor website Calendar and to the “Upcoming Activities” area of your Group page.
  • Activity forms are required in advance (2-3 weeks prior is ideal).

Using Your Funding

  • Funds must be used during each award’s specified semester on the specified host campus. (Why? Our overall budget draws from multiple funding sources, and those sources are not transferable between campuses.)
  • The designated “location” for each award is the host campus where all the expenses must be processed, even if an activity is online, hybrid format, or an off-site retreat.
  • Host campus Working Group Organizer(s) work with their home departments to process Corridor expense reimbursements according to the approved budget. If needed, your home department administrator can consult with the Corridor’s administrative contact at the hosting institution.
  • If, due to unforeseen circumstances, you need to reschedule an award from Fall to Spring, modify the approved honoraria or accessibility budget categories, or make other substantive changes, you must seek prior approval via email or by completing the Revise an Existing Award form on our Resources page. Each request is subject to review by Corridor Directors. Changing location has complex fiscal implications and cannot always be accommodated.
  • Approved awards are maximum budgets. Unspent funds will be returned to the available funding pool for Working Groups during the next proposal cycle.
  • To meet our fiscal year deadlines, Fall semester awards must be completed by December 15; Spring semester awards must be completed by May 15.
  • Corridor funds cannot be used to pay honoraria, speaker fees, wages, or stipends to faculty, staff, or students from any Corridor institution, including satellite campuses (Syracuse University, Cornell University, University of Rochester, Colgate University, Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Skidmore College, St. Lawrence University, Union College, Le Moyne College, Rochester Institute of Technology).

Publicity & Land Acknowledgement

Following Campus-Specific Guidelines

  • We appreciate your Working Group’s cooperation in following all guidelines at your awards’ host institutions and expect Working Groups to verify protocols for each campus in advance. If you have questions about how to plan an event using Corridor funds, please contact the project director and/or designated staff at the relevant host campus on how to use Corridor funds on your campus.

Using Intra-Corridor Travel Funding

  • Participants from Corridor institutions may be reimbursed for some travel to/from approved Corridor activities on other Corridor campuses according to these travel guidelines.
  • This funding is distinct from and in addition to your approved working group award budget.
  • Intra-Corridor travel reimbursements should be submitted to each individual’s home campus. (Exception: Faculty at Hobart and William Smith, Skidmore, Union College, and St. Lawrence should submit expenses to the NY6 Consortium).

Completing Your Required End-of-Year Working Group Report

  • Each Working Group must submit a brief end-of-year report about how things went for your group over the course of the year, including activities, types of engagement, participation rates, and short- or long-term outcomes. You will receive an email reminder in late spring, and the report form (now undergoing revision) will be available on our Resources page.
  • All reporting helps us showcase the Corridor’s breadth, document outcomes, and underscore the value of Humanities collaborations. The pivotal information you share shapes our reporting to the Corridor Advisory Board, the Mellon Foundation, our institutional leadership, and our donors.
  • You may update your individual Working Group page any time via an Update my Working Group form or by emailing us at cnyhumanities@syr.edu with the requested changes. Page updates are otherwise made annually each summer with information from your funding proposal.

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Things to Avoid in Budgets and Planning

Paying students

  • Direct payments to students are not allowed using Corridor funds; this includes both undergraduate and graduate students. The reasons for this policy are complicated, but there are potential unforeseen impacts to need-based student financial aid packages, as well as restrictions on international student compensation. The mechanisms and policies for hiring students also differ across our institutions, and a majority of our Corridor institutions do not have graduate students.
  • Exceptions to this rule arise if a student is already a formal employee of an institution serving as, for example, a student IT staff member who is hired through their official existing IT employment designation, rather than being paid a stipend via a student account.

Paying individuals within the Corridor

  • We can't pay ourselves or each other. Corridor funds cannot be used to pay honoraria, commissions, or stipends to employees at the 11 Corridor institutions.

Websites

  • Corridor funds cannot be used to create new websites for Corridor events or groups.
  • Every Corridor Working Group has its own web page, and we can help you add more content, images, or video if you wish.

Equipment

  • Corridor funds cannot be used to purchase equipment. Equipment purchasing policies differ across our 11 institutions, and equipment often becomes property of the purchasing campus, not of the individual or group. Equipment includes, for example, virtual reality headsets, video recording devices, and computers.