Deadline: 19 September 2019
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is seeking applications for its Humanities Connections program to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions.
Awards will support innovative curricular approaches that foster productive partnerships among humanities faculty and their counterparts in the social and natural sciences and in pre-service or professional programs (such as business, engineering, health sciences, law, computer science, and other technology-driven fields), in order to encourage and develop new integrative learning opportunities for students.
Core Features
Humanities Connections projects have four core features:
- substantive and purposeful integration of the subject matter, perspectives, and pedagogical approaches of two or more disciplines (with a minimum of one in and one outside of the humanities)
- collaboration between faculty from two or more separate departments or schools at one or more institutions
- experiential learning as an intrinsic part of the curricular plan
- long-term institutional support for the proposed curriculum innovation(s)
Types of Grants
Humanities Connections grants are funded at two levels: Planning and Implementation.
- Planning Grants support the interdisciplinary collaboration of faculty from two or more separate departments or schools (a minimum of one in and one outside of the humanities), with the goal of designing a new, coherent curricular program or initiative. The award gives the institution(s) the opportunity to create a firm foundation for implementing the program.
- Implementation Grants support the interdisciplinary collaboration of faculty from two or more separate departments or schools (a minimum of one in and one outside of the humanities), with the implementation of a sustainable curricular program or initiative as the outcome.
Funding Information
- Applicants for Humanities Connections Planning Grants may apply for a ceiling amount of up to $35,000 with a period of performance of one year. The project’s start date must be no later than September 1, 2020.
- Applicants for Humanities Connections Implementation Grants may apply for a ceiling amount of up to $100,000 with a period of performance of eighteen to thirty six months. The project’s start date must be no later than September 1, 2020.
Eligibility Criteria
- This program accepts applications from any U.S. two- or four-year public or private 501(c)(3) tax-exempt college or university, including community colleges, four-year public and private colleges and universities, liberal arts colleges, research universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions.
- Individuals and foreign and for-profit entities are not eligible to apply.
- An institution may submit multiple applications for distinctly different projects. Recipients with open Humanities Connections awards may apply. Overlapping project costs between two or more applications for federal funding and/or approved federal award budgets are not permitted.
- Collaboration with other postsecondary institutions is welcome, but a single institution must serve as the applicant of record. In addition, the project director must be from the applicant institution.
- NEH generally does not award grants to other federal entities or to applicants whose projects are so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized activities. This does not preclude applicants from using grant funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal entities in their projects.
- NEH will not review applications that are late, incomplete, or ineligible.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=318773