Research Institutes and Community Resources

The Bronx Institute

The mission of the Bronx Institute at Lehman College is to foster faculty research relevant to the improvement of education and the quality of life in the Bronx; and to provide a forum to discuss, analyze, and identify potential solutions to contemporary educational, social, political, cultural, and economic challenges facing the Bronx community, in particular, and other urban areas at large. As a community resource, the Bronx Institute is committed to act in cooperation with other academic institutions, community groups, and organizations to develop joint projects, especially those that enrich the educational needs of all Bronx students. The vision of the Institute is to foster and promote equity and excellence in the education and learning of Bronx students in grades K-16 by involving administrators, teachers, parents, and the students themselves in high-quality programs that support and enhance the educational opportunities of the students.

Bronx Telehealth

The Bronx Telehealth Counseling Center (BTCC) is the first of its kind Virtual Telehealth Center at Lehman College that provides behavioral and mental health counseling. Clinical trainees from the Department of Social Work and Counselor Education: Clinical Mental Health Counseling Graduate Program provide clinical services under the supervision of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Psychologist.

BTCC offers free, compassionate, high quality, and evidence-based behavioral and mental health services for Individuals, families, couples, and groups. The clinic helps with parenting, relationships, stress, mental health, career success, and more. The clinic has flexible hours on evenings and weekends. The Bronx Telehealth Counselling Center serves as a training environment for undergraduate and graduate students for Social Work and Clinical Mental Health Counseling students using the Interprofessional Educational model to provide services to clients in the greater Bronx area.

The Center for School/College Collaboratives

The Center for School/College Collaboratives (CSCC) at Lehman College aims to strengthen partnerships between the School of Education and Bronx schools, improving educational outcomes for local residents. CSCC offers enriching experiences for Bronx middle and high school students, especially those in STEM fields or interested in teaching careers. It supports teacher candidates through mentorship, training, fieldwork, and funding.

CSCC also advances research on effective teacher preparation and retention, focusing on high-need areas like special education and STEM. It promotes residency programs and embedded clinical fieldwork to improve teacher retention and success.

By fostering a coordinated presence in K-12 education, CSCC works to enhance education policies and outcomes for Bronx students, aiming to increase college readiness, graduation rates, and long-term success.

Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies

The Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies advances social justice and human dignity in an interdisciplinary fashion through active involvement of faculty, students, and community in research and teaching. The Center builds on the College's unique history: the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights began at Lehman College when the United Nations met at the College. Lehman College students, often immigrants and the first in their families to access higher education, engender a broad understanding of human rights. The Center unites student and faculty engagement on local and global rights issues in New York and the greater world community. Currently the Center offers a minor in Human Rights and Peace Studies.

Child Care Center

The Lehman College Student Child Care Center is committed to providing the children and families of matriculated Lehman students with the highest quality early child care programs and support possible.

CUNY Institute for Health Equity

The CUNY Institute for Health Equity provides a home for interdisciplinary population-based research and training across CUNY campuses, and with community organizations in The Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Faculty affiliates from other campuses, and student interns, are actively engaged in applied research and programs to address the social determinants of health, and health equity in under-served communities of color. Collaboration with CUNY public health programs and school, and external organizations support the goal of achieving health equity and social justice within neighborhoods where CUNY campuses are located.

The CUNY Mexican Studies Institute

The CUNY Mexican Studies Institute (MSI) is comprised of all the faculty, students, staff, and affiliated community-based organizations working on research, advocacy, and services related to Mexico and Mexicans in the United States. Among the goals of MSI are promoting the creation of courses, majors, minors, and programs of study in campuses across the CUNY system; promoting enrollment, retention, and graduation of Mexican and Mexican-American students in CUNY; sponsoring an annual academic conference as well as film series, lectures, workshops on Mexican topics; serving as 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; supporting undergraduate and graduate students through internships, research assistantships, and other service-learning opportunities with cultural, diplomatic, social, and economic institutions working with the Mexican population in New York City.

The Institute for Literacy Studies

The Institute for Literacy Studies, founded in 1984, is a research unit of The City University of New York. The Institute's mission - reforming and improving urban education - has deep significance in its home borough of the Bronx as well as throughout New York City and the nation. The Institute defines urban education in its broadest, most inclusive meaning to comprise the complex web of systems, settings, and relationships that foster learning. It works to advance research, articulate theory, and implement effective practice in literacy and mathematics education through initiatives in a variety of educational settings K-16, including schools, community-based organizations, adult literacy programs, and CUNY campuses. Through its Adult Learning Center, the Institute offers basic education, English language instruction, and preparation for the high-school equivalency exam and college transition to members of the community who are not enrolled in school or college.

Speech and Hearing Center

The Speech and Hearing Center at Lehman College provides state of the art diagnostic and therapeutic services to individuals in the NYC Metropolitan area and to members of the Lehman community who have speech, language, hearing, feeding, and swallowing deficits. Services are delivered by graduate-student clinicians under the close supervision of Clinical Educators, who are speech-language pathologists certified by ASHA (the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) and licensed by New York State.

The Speech and Hearing Center also serves as a laboratory for undergraduate and graduate students in Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences and faculty doing applied clinical research in the area of aphasia treatment, bilingualism, language and literacy, and early childhood intervention.

The Audiology Center provides Hearing Screenings and Auditory Processing Screenings.