--- title: "The ARCH Innovation Exchange" url: "/academics/arch" type: page date: 2026-06-17 updated: 2026-10-02 --- # The ARCH Innovation Exchange Academics # The ARCH Innovation Exchange **Building the Future of Interdisciplinary Education** Working across Manhattan University's three schools, ARCH brings together students, faculty, industry, and the community to address questions that no single discipline can answer alone. Through cross-disciplinary academic and extra-curricular programs, faculty collaboration, public scholarship, and strategic partnerships, ARCH prepares students—and the University—for an increasingly interconnected world. Image ![Manhattan University campus looking at one of the Manhattan flags on a light pole](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_327w/public/media/2026-05/campus-outside-banner-3200x2000.jpg?h=1cb48fc4&itok=t0ishEOK) Image ![Bloomberg Trading room with business students for O'Malley School of Business](/sites/default/files/styles/square_400/public/media/2026-10/bloomberg-stock-finance-1-3000x2000.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=re2J6-dz) ## Your Major Gives You Depth. ARCH Gives You Range. **Every student deserves a strong interdisciplinary foundation.** The world's most important challenges rarely fit within a single discipline. Success increasingly depends on integrating knowledge, collaborating across fields, and thinking beyond traditional boundaries. ARCH complements every major by creating opportunities to learn, research, create, and innovate across disciplines—preparing students for careers and lives that demand both expertise and adaptability. Whether students pursue careers in engineering, education, business, healthcare, public service, the arts or emerging fields, ARCH ensures they graduate with the adaptability and insight needed to navigate complex professional landscapes. [ Explore ARCH Academic Programs ](/academics/arch/division-of-integrative-programs) Image ![Bloomberg Trading room with business students for O'Malley School of Business](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_327w/public/media/2026-10/bloomberg-stock-finance-1-3000x2000.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=r9z4D9sa) Image ![IBM SkillsBuild logo that says getting started with artificial intelligence for Manhattan University](/sites/default/files/styles/square_400/public/media/2026-10/logo-ibmskills.png?h=04d92ac6&itok=mMUgYS4C) Academics ## Build AI Fluency with IBM SkillsBuild **Every Manhattan University student and faculty member can access free IBM courses and digital credentials.** ARCH connects you with IBM SkillsBuild, a platform offering free, self-paced courses in AI, cybersecurity, and data analytics. Complete a course, earn a digital badge through Credly, and add it to your résumé and LinkedIn profile. First-year students start with an introductory AI course and can then apply for paid, project-based micro-internships. [ Explore IBM SkillsBuild ](/academics/ibm-skills-training) Image ![IBM SkillsBuild logo that says getting started with artificial intelligence for Manhattan University](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_327w/public/media/2026-10/logo-ibmskills.png?h=04d92ac6&itok=Q7F66tUY) ![Headshot of President Frederick Bonato, P.h.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/square_400/public/media/2026-06/250821-manhattan-u-7379.JPG?h=4ba4a999&itok=61Az2Xs_) ## What ARCH Does Analytics, Research, Creativity, and Humanity reflect Manhattan University's belief that technical skill, critical inquiry, imagination, and ethical responsibility must work together. ARCH puts that belief into practice by connecting rigorous academics with hands-on application through project-based learning, entrepreneurship, and cross-sector collaboration. [](/academics/arch/division-of-integrative-programs) [ARCH Academic Programs ](/academics/arch/division-of-integrative-programs) Interdisciplinary majors, minors, and microcredentials that bring together faculty and courses from across Manhattan University's three schools. The Division coordinates curriculum, advising, and assessment for fields that do not fit neatly within a single discipline. Explore Academic Programs [](/academics/arch/faculty-fellows) [Faculty Fellows ](/academics/arch/faculty-fellows) Supporting faculty-led projects that advance interdisciplinary teaching, research, and public scholarship. Fellows receive funding, visibility, and a collaborative cohort to develop new courses, programs, student research experiences, public events, and partnerships that cross academic boundaries. Explore Faculty Fellows [](/academics/arch/speaker-series) [ARCH Talks ](/academics/arch/speaker-series) Conversations with leading scholars, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and practitioners exploring ideas that cross disciplines. Through public lectures, interviews, and discussions, the series connects students and faculty with the questions shaping culture, technology, research, and society. Explore ARCH Talks [](/academics/arch/students-get-involved) [Innovation Collective ](/academics/arch/students-get-involved) Join the ARCH Innovation Collective to connect across majors through idea hours, reading groups, field visits, student media, and the annual Innovation Summit. Innovation Scholars receive support to lead ambitious interdisciplinary projects with real-world impact. Explore The Innovation Collective [](/academics/arch/arch-partners) [Industry & Community Partnerships ](/academics/arch/arch-partners) Collaborating with industry, nonprofits, schools, healthcare, government, and community organizations to connect learning with real-world needs and opportunities. Partners work with students and faculty on applied projects, research, internships, innovation challenges, and civic initiatives. Explore Industry & Community Partnerships [](/academics/arch/arch-innovation-engine) [Innovation Engine ](/academics/arch/arch-innovation-engine) Building a collaborative environment where students, faculty, and the Bronx community can experiment, prototype, create, and solve problems together. Plans include prototyping studios, data visualization and AI facilities, XR labs, and neurotechnology research areas. Explore Innovation Engine ## Why Interdisciplinary? Artificial intelligence is not only computer science. Healthcare is not only biology. Cities are not only engineering. Climate change is not only environmental science. The defining challenges of the twenty-first century demand people who can integrate ideas across disciplines. ARCH exists to cultivate those people. Image ![Image of Dr. Lawrence Udeigwe](/sites/default/files/styles/original_aspect_ratio_400/public/media/2026-03/udeigwe_768x576_blurfill_100dpi.jpg?itok=iIchnneV) > "The questions that matter most rarely belong to a single discipline. ARCH creates the programs, partnerships, and spaces where students and faculty can pursue them together." **Lawrence Udeigwe, Ph.D.** **Professor of Mathematics and Director of ARCH** Image ![Photo showing the Bloomberg Lab in the O'Malley School of Business at Manhattan University with students and faculty](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_327w/public/media/2026-09/bloomber-lab-2.jpg?h=854a7be2&itok=iX2gqoFF) ## Join the ARCH Community Whether you're a student exploring new opportunities, a faculty member seeking collaborators, or an organization interested in partnership, ARCH offers a place to learn, create, discover, and innovate together. 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