Bylaws

The Humanities Center created the Humanities Center Bylaws (PDF) to provide faculty, staff, and students a comprehensive list of the center's policies and procedures. The following bylaw table of contents outlines everything that's covered in the document:

  1. Preamble
  2. Mission Statement
  3. Participating Programs and Departments
  4. Executive Committee
    1. Executive Committee Mandate
    2. Executive Committee Composition
    3. Executive Committee Meetings and Voting
    4.  Subcommittees
      1. Fellowships
      2. Humanities Project
      3. Meliora Scholars Mentors
  5. Duties and Functions of the Director
    1. Term of Office
    2. Search
    3. Meetings
    4. Public Lecture Series
    5. External Grants
    6. Central New York Humanities Corridor
    7. Budget and Endowment Funds
    8. Committees
    9. Newsletter
    10. Director Review
  6. Duties and Functions of the Assistant Director of Programs
    1. Terms of Employment
    2. Operations
  7. VII. Programs
    1. Associate Professor Advancement Fund
    2. Central New York Humanities Corridor
    3. Distinguished Visiting Humanist
    4. Ferrari Humanities Symposium
    5. Humanities Project
      1. Eligibility
      2. Full-Scale Projects
      3. Working Groups
    6. Manuscript Workshops
    7. Meliora Global Scholars
    8. Meliora Scholars
    9. Public Lecture Series
      1. Dinners
      2. Posters
    10. Rosenberger Work-in-Progress Seminars
    11. UR Press Book Series
  8. Fellowships
    1. Internal Fellowship
    2. External Fellowships
      1. Tenure-Track Faculty Level
      2. Postdoctoral Level
    3. Meliora Digital and Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship
    4. Faculty Bridging Fellowship
    5. Humanities New York Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship
    6. Scholars in Exile
    7. Non-Stipendiary Fellows
  9. Space
    1. Offices
    2. Conference Rooms
    3. Meliora Digital & Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship Lab
    4. Lounge
  10. Amending the Bylaws