Humanities Initiatives for Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Post Date

April 15th 2010

Application Due Date

June 15th 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

20100615-AB

CFDA Number(s)

45.162

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Humanities

Number of Awards

10

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)
Private Institutions of Higher Education

Any U.S. nonprofit 501(c)3 tax-exempt historically black college or university, as defined by Executive Order 13532, is eligible to apply for a Humanities Initiatives grant. Eligible institutions are those included in the Department of Education’s list of HBCUs.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $0 - $100000

Grant Description

NEH Humanities Initiatives are intended to strengthen and enrich humanities education and scholarship at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. These grants may be used to enhance the humanities content of existing programs, develop new programs, or lay the foundation for more extensive endeavors in the future. Each project must be organized around a core topic or set of themes. For examples, see the sample project narratives, available under Program Resources in the sidebar to the right.NEH Humanities Initiatives may create opportunities for faculty members to study together while improving their capacity to teach the humanities; help faculty members and administrators develop new humanities programs, which may include but are not limited to academic writing programs, foreign language programs, new humanities minors, first-year seminars, capstone courses, or summer bridge programs for at-risk high school students; help institutions take advantage of humanities resources, especially in the digital humanities; enhance or develop areas of basic need in an institution’s core humanities programs; or build ties among faculty at more than one institution of higher learning; among college teachers, secondary school teachers, and students; or among faculty members at institutions of higher learning and their colleagues in museums, libraries, or other organizations such as historical and cultural societies.

Contact Information

• Agency

  National Endowment for the Humanities

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  Division of Education Programs
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  Room 302
  1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
  Washington, D.C. 20506
  202-606-8463

• Agency Mailing Address:

  hi@neh.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  hi@neh.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HI_HBCU.html