NEH Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges: Enhancing Humanities Education

NEH Humanities Initiatives may
• develop bridge programs for at-risk and nontraditional students;
• integrate substantial humanities content or texts in required or developmental courses that focus on close reading, analytical writing, and/or effective speaking;
• support new humanities programs (which may include but are not limited to new humanities minors, first-year seminars, and capstone courses) and enhance existing ones;
• infuse humanistic learning into professional training (in such fields as business, law, engineering, technology, hospitality, and nursing and medicine);
• create or improve curricular pathways towards graduation and/or transfer to four-year institutions;
• create opportunities for faculty members to study together, in order to improve their capacity to teach the humanities; and
• support collaborative projects in the humanities between the applicant institution and another institution, such as a college or university, a school or school system, a museum or library, or a historical or cultural society.
Applicants are encouraged to draw on the knowledge of outside scholars who would contribute expertise and fresh insights to the project.