What We Do
What we are working on now
- Annual Conference
- CUNY-IME Becas Scholarship Program
- Ciclo de Cine Documental: Mexican Documentary Film Festival
- Our Blog
What are our goals
The following are the goals of the CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies:
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Promote the creation of courses, majors, minors, and programs of study in campuses across the CUNY system
- Lehman College currently offers a minor in Mexican and Mexican-American Studies. Click here for more information.
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Events and other programming: film series, lectures, workshops, and more on Mexican topics
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Liaison, resource, and epicenter for the coming together of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) for the promotion of cultural, educational, and social programming for the larger Mexican community and all of New York City; social services; immigration issues; civil, human, and labor rights issues.
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Service-Learning: undergraduate and graduate students will be able to take advantage of a wealth of internships, research assistantships, and other service-learning opportunities with a select number of cultural, diplomatic, social, and economic institutions working with the Mexican population in New York City, including: Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders, Masa-MexEd, the Mexican Cultural Institute, the Mexican Consulate, El Museo del Barrio, Mixteca Organization, and Asociación Tepeyac de New York.
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Creation of Carlos Fuentes Visiting Professorship
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Establishment of exchange programs and visiting professorships with Mexican universities, including Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
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Distance learning: facilitation with academic departments in CUNY system of collaborative team teaching of online and hybrid courses involving Mexico- and U.S.-based scholars in institutions of higher education.
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The Institute's first-year focus will be on Mexican indigenous languages: coordination with departments to offer formal indigenous-language instruction (Mixteco and Nahuatl), informal conversation hours, workshops for service providers, and conferences.
We need you! Please email us at mexican.studies@lehman.cuny.edu for more information and to join our efforts.
To donate to our scholarship fund, please contact or mail contributions to the CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies, c/o the Lehman College Foundation, Shuster Hall, Rm 318, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx NY 10468 (718-960-8766).
