The University of Houston at Victoria will develop, implement, and evaluate three new minor curricula in race and ethics studies, women and gender studies, and disability studies through a $150,000 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant awarded May 1, 2023 for completion by April 30, 2026. Under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162), which enhances teaching and study of the humanities through new...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Iona University a $150,000 Project Grant through the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant funds the "Iona Black Humanities Initiative (IBHI) Project" which aims to build out Iona's existing Black Studies (BST) minor into a full major and integrate more diverse humanities content across the university's curricula. Key activities include: Convening...
South Carolina State University, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in South Carolina, was awarded a $145,877 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will support the development of an online, asynchronous Master of Arts in English program with a focus on intersectional studies, which examines how aspects of individual...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Niagara University, a private Catholic liberal arts institution, a $148,500 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The three-year grant will fund the implementation of a new Vincentian Social Justice General Education Minor at Niagara University. The project aims to provide undergraduates with flexibility to integrate humanities-focused social justice...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,500 Project Grant to the University of California Santa Cruz to develop a new certificate program in the humanities for engineering students. The grant funding will support the Humanizing Technology initiative under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). Through this three-year project ending in February 2025, UC Santa Cruz aims to establish a rigorous...
The College of Staten Island's Division of Humanities and Social Sciences has been awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The three-year initiative, titled "Re-Centering Global Humanities in the Contemporary World," aims to revise and redesign the college's global humanities curriculum, known as the "Contemporary World"...
Seton Hall University received a two-year, $449,871 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program. The grant will support the development of Seton Hall's proposed interdisciplinary Business Humanities minor and seven new courses aiming to integrate the humanities into business education by overcoming the artificial separation of these disciplines. The minor and courses...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Western Michigan University a $149,952 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant, awarded on February 1, 2024, will fund a 3-year project to (1) expand an interdisciplinary working group on higher education for justice-involved individuals, (2) revise and adapt an existing first-year experience course for the prison context, (3) revise...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) seeks to introduce undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to librarianship careers, with a focus on preservation, archives, and conservation work. The $343,197 award will fund a 3-year program, beginning in September 2025, that includes a hybrid format of virtual seminars and on-site, hands-on...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), provides $161,194 to Weber State University to organize and offer a new Level I hybrid summer institute on using adaptations of Shakespeare's tragedies to teach the plays with an emphasis on engagement and diversity. The institute will demonstrate high-impact pedagogical practices for teaching Shakespeare at the high school level and...