Deadline: 24 August 2015
The NEH Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges is accepting applications in order to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities in subjects such as history, philosophy, and literature.
The grants offered by the program can also be used to enhance existing humanities programs, resources, or courses, or to develop new ones.
Focus Areas
- create opportunities for faculty members to study together, in order to improve their capacity to teach the humanities;
- support new humanities programs (which may include but are not limited to new humanities minors, first-year seminars, and capstone courses), and enhance existing ones
- support humanities contributions to professional training (in such fields as business, law, economics, technology, and nursing and medicine);
- develop bridge programs for at-risk and nontraditional students;
- help institutions take advantage of humanities resources, especially in the digital humanities; and
- support collaborative projects in the humanities between the applicant institution and another institution, such as a college or university, a school or school system, a museum or library, or a historical or cultural society.
Award Information
The successful applicants for NEH Humanities Initiative may be awarded up to $100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community colleges, post-secondary institutions and U.S nonprofit tax-exempt two-year college are eligible to apply for the program.
- Collaboration with other organizations are eligible for applications, but the project director must be from an eligible institution.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit their applications at the address given on the PDF.
For more information, please download this PDF.
