A'Lelia Bundles Community Scholars at Columbia University are members of the Upper Manhattan community who receive a three-year affiliation with Columbia and access to campus resources while they work independently on a project or skill that relates to or benefits their community.
Bundles Scholars join an intellectual community with the other participants in the program and have opportunities to connect with life and learning across the University.
The 2026 application period is now closed.
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Meet the 13th Cohort of A'Lelia Bundles Community Scholars
This is the 13th cohort of Bundles Scholars to join the University in a three-year affiliation that gives them the resources to expand their research, realize a project, and increase their knowledge through access to Columbia’s libraries, course auditing, and building a community with passionate individuals working on a wide variety of projects.
Meet A'Lelia Bundles
"I love the Community Scholars concept of recognizing the brilliance of people who live above 110th Street. People who may not have already been on campus or didn’t have a PhD, but their work was really important... The connection with Columbia, the access to resources, the community that it creates, the interdisciplinary relationships that they’re able to build... I think it opens some doors for them that might not have been open, but also exposes the Columbia community to their brilliance."
— A’Lelia Bundles
Read more about A’Lelia Bundles, journalist, historian, and community champion, in Columbia Magazine and on the Columbia Neighbors website.