2022 ACLS Anniversary Celebration

_{Left to right: Joy Connolly, ALCS President; Renée White, Provost of The New School; Kanwal Singh, Provost of Sarah Lawrence College; Gigi Dopico, Interim Provost of New York University; Jeffrey Robinson, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, Rutgers University-Newark; Wendy Hensel, Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost, the City University of New York}

ACLS hosted a festive anniversary celebration on Monday, September 19, 2022, at the New York Historical Society.

More than 80 guests joined ACLS President Joy Connolly and ACLS staff and board for “Perspectives from the Provost’s Office,” a panel discussion on the current state and challenges related to sustaining and growing the humanities and social sciences in higher education. The panel featured New York-area provosts Gigi Dopico, Interim Provost of New York University; Wendy Hensel, Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost, the City University of New York; Jeffrey Robinson, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, Rutgers University-Newark; Kanwal Singh, Provost of Sarah Lawrence College; and Renée White, Provost of The New School.

Connolly introduced the discussion by describing the role ACLS plays in connecting conversations and partners around collective solutions and action. “ACLS sits in the middle of the flows of all the conversations and debates happening right now,” she explained. “We see our role as connecting those conversations and those who are aligned in our mission to advance humanistic study and knowledge in higher education and society.”