Lehman's Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program was awarded a two-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a new writing curriculum that draws from archival research into the diverse cultural histories of The Bronx to engage students across multiple disciplines.

WAC is a pedagogical approach that integrates writing into each discipline and encourages the development of student writing as a tool for critical thinking.

“Students Archive the Bronx: Building Literacy for Multilingual Learners through Community History Projects,” addresses a gap in teaching resources for multilingual students in the Bronx and the United States. The project will bring together a cohort of faculty from various disciplines and institutions for a two-year training program grounded in archival studies to develop writing curricula informed by the history of Bronx communities.

"By engaging faculty in local history and including multilingual archives from the Bronx into curricula, Lehman’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program aims to create a space where students can see themselves as part of the course content and as knowledge producers," said Jane Kehoe-Higgins, director of the CUNY Institute for Literacy Studies and project lead.

Project partners include The Bronx County Historical Society and Hostos Community College.