SLICE Partners

Sarah Lawrence is proud to deepen its relationship with Bronx Community College through SLICE, thanks to support from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times grant. Building on SLC’s transfer partnership with BCC, the SLICE-BCC collaboration involves a unique, cross-institutional pedagogy that centers on a curriculum and events developed by a cohort of faculty from both colleges in the fall semester of each year and enacted each spring. Early in the spring semester, students enrolled in SLICE courses at both institutions attend a panel discussion at Bronx Community College; at the end of the semester, the students attend a SLICE student symposium at Sarah Lawrence where SLC and BCC students present their work side by side.

Care and Climate Justice is a series of exhibitions that take place at Sarah Lawrence College and Bronx Community College in winter and spring 2024. The exhibitions are funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, which supports the Sarah Lawrence Interdisciplinary Collaborative on the Environment (SLICE).

Bronx Community College is home to more than 40 academic programs offered by outstanding faculty in a range of flexible class schedules. A Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), the college enrolls students from nearly 100 countries. Home to the country’s first Hall of Fame, the campus was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2012, becoming the country’s first community college campus to receive such a designation.

An alliance between Sarah Lawrence College and the Beczak Environmental Education Center, The Center for the Urban River at Beczak (CURB)  is a river exploration facility located on the banks of the Hudson at Habirshaw Park. CURB offers the local community high-quality K–12 environmental education, creating a regional center for environmental research and monitoring centered on the Hudson River estuary and urban watershed issues. CURB acts as a welcoming community space for a range of civic and cultural events to advance environmental knowledge and stewardship, and offers opportunities for students such as the Blue Team, a 6-week paid internship offered to ten Yonkers Public Schools students during which the students research river pollution issues, explore different scientific lab processes, discuss environmental justice, and plan community events. In partnership with SLICE, CURB hosted an Earth Day Storytelling event in 2023, at which the Sarah Lawrence community came together to share their voices and learn more about the environment.

Groundwork Hudson Valley seeks to create sustainable urban environments while working towards equitable economic development and opportunity by partnering with local communities. The organization also provides educational opportunities for community members to learn about environmentalism through projects like the Science Barge, curricular planning, and working directly with students in the Yonkers Public School system through the Green Team program, which matches teenagers with restoration and building projects that include working in the community gardens, cleaning the Saw Mill River, and other activities during the summer months. Groundwork Hudson Valley also organizes hiking, kayaking, and camping excursions—locally, but also in places like Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon, and partners with Sarah Lawrence College through internships in support of these projects and environmental education community events.

Untermyer Gardens Conservancy works in partnership with the City of Yonkers to support the restoration of gardens created in 1917 by Samuel and Minnie Untermyer. This 43-acre public garden unites magnificent horticulture, architecture, and multicultural design in a grand natural setting with Hudson River views and is open to the public free of charge. The Conservancy is dedicated to sharing this exceptional resource with the larger community outside of Bronxville, offering symposia and lectures to inform the community about the gardens, gardening, and other related topics. The Conservancy also hosts concerts and dance events, which provide yet another way for the public to engage with the gardens. In partnership with SLICE, Untermyer Gardens offers student internships that include work like gardening and helping develop educational programs and events.