The University of Denver received a three-year, $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The award will support the development of a new curricular initiative titled "Youth Voices in El Movimiento and the Struggle for Racial Justice along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountain West." The initiative centers on cultivating young...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $299,998 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop eight courses combining humanities and data science as part of the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program. Over a three-year period from August 2022 to July 2025, key staff at the University of Colorado Boulder will design experiential learning courses that promote engagement with humanistic questions...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to Colorado State University (CSU) to support the renovation of space for the university's new Center for Engaged Humanities. The Center will engage members of the public and community organizations as critical collaborators in humanities scholarship and programming designed to strengthen local, state, and regional democratic institutions...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $110,447 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to Regis University. The grant supports the development of a 15-credit certificate program and 12-credit minor in Museums, Archives, and Gallery Studies. The proposed curriculum is grounded in humanities and arts, with the primary goal of preparing students to work in these fields upon completion or...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $488,966 Project Grant to Colorado Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). This 5-year grant, spanning from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029, supports Colorado Humanities in bringing the humanities to life through subawards and public programming across the state. The grant allows Colorado Humanities to tailor its initiatives to the needs, resources, and interests of local...
This three-year, $448,911 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program will support the University of North Carolina at Asheville in creating a Digital Humanities Undergraduate Research track within its Undergraduate Research Program. Through experiential learning opportunities and faculty development efforts, the university will adapt and pilot courses incorporating digital...
The State Historical Society of Colorado (History Colorado) was awarded $500,000 under a Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs to support humanities initiatives in rural Colorado through September 2022. History Colorado will install a new wireless network across its eight museum properties to improve connectivity for visitors, staff, and community members. It will also reinterpret the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center,...
This $151,520 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the Colorado Chicano Movement Archives in preserving and providing access to its collections. The awardee, Colorado State University-Pueblo, will use the funding to hire an archivist through January 2023 to process 500 digitized items, create metadata for 300 photographs, and develop finding aids. The...
The University of Houston (UH) has been awarded a $250,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to improve the digital infrastructure of its Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) program. The grant will be used to create a customized cloud-based digital repository and content management system to organize, index, and preserve the vast digital archives of manuscripts,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) for the project "Enriching the Humanities Curriculum to Embrace Cultural Relevance". The project objectives are to: (1) develop five new culturally relevant courses to support a new Hispanic Studies minor; (2) provide...