23 Student Advisory Board
In its last year, TLH formed a Fall 2022 Student Advisory Board of 12 members as well as a Spring 2023 Student Advisory Board of 12 members. To be eligible, students must have been Mellon Student Scholars in a previous semester (Fall 2021, Spring 2022, or Fall 2022), and must have been currently enrolled, matriculated students at CUNY.
The Advisory Board provided an opportunity to give back to the CUNY community by contributing student voices and leadership as TLH worked to forward transformation at CUNY and in higher education more broadly. As members of the Student Advisory Board, students would meet three times (virtually via Zoom) and advise TLH staff on implementing institutional change related to teaching and pedagogy. In these brainstorming workshops, they worked together to craft goals, discuss the work of writers in TLH’s Transformative Speaker Series, and planned the “Student Summit on the Role of Humanities in a Just Society,” a full-day virtual unconference to be held in Spring 2023. The Fall board developed a call for proposals for our Student Summit, and the Spring Board helped review applications and host the Summit on May 5, 2023.
Selected students were from diverse backgrounds and over twenty majors, including: Anthropology, Business, Black and Latino Studies, Computer Sciences, Criminology, Dance, East Asian Political Sciences, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Forensic Psychology, Journalism, Liberal Arts, Nursing, Marketing, and Psychology.
Selecting the Student Advisory Board
In selecting 12 students for the fall and spring Student Advisory Board, the TLH team asked TLH Mellon Student Scholars “Why are you interested in being on the Student Advisory Board”? In their responses, we looked for alignment with the TLH mission, cogency, and leadership qualities. Broad representation across CUNY campuses was key in our decision-making process.
Abigail Garcia Vazquez (majoring in Marketing Management at Baruch College), a Spring 2023 TLH Student Advisory Board Member, reads the mission statement that the board crafted together at the Student Summit on May 5, 2023.
Meet the Student Advisory Board