NEH Education Program Grants

Jennifer Serventi (jserventi@neh.fed.us)
Thu, 8 Aug 1996 21:18:33 EDT

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NEH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION GRANTS INCLUDING
TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college
faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the teaching and
learning of history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and
other areas of the humanities. The Education Development and
Demonstration Program offers the following programs:

--Humanities Focus Grants

Propose a study of a humanities topic during the summer or academic year with
colleagues from your school building, school district, college or
university

Work with humanities scholars

Application deadlines: September 16, 1996 and April 18, 1997
Funding available: up to $25,000

--Materials Development Projects

Develop educational materials for national dissemination

Application deadline: October 1, 1996
Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years

--Curricular Development and Demonstration Projects

Design a humanities study project for teachers or college faculty

Join with scholars from nearby colleges, universities, museums, and other
cultural organizations to promote an ongoing academic partnership

Prepare model courses or curricula

Application deadline: October 1, 1996
Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years

--Dissemination and Diffusion Projects

Share information on exemplary projects in humanities education through
national conferences, workshops, and networks

Application deadline: October 1, 1996
Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years

TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY is a special NEH initiative to support projects that
use today's rapidly evolving information technologies to improve
teaching and learning in the humanities. Proposals may be submitted
for all categories and deadlines.

For more information about these grant opportunities, or if you have ideas about
developing a project, please write or call:

Education Development and Demonstration
Division of Research and Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20506
Phone: 202/606-8380
FAX: 202/606-8394
e-mail: education@neh.fed.us
TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282

Guidelines and application forms may be retrieved from the NEH World Wide Web
site: http://www.neh.fed.us (under *EDD Guidelines*)

Jennifer Serventi
jserventi@neh.fed.us