A three-year project to plan and run two cycles of a four-week summer bridge program for first-year students at Haskell Indian Nations University, focusing on English and humanities.

Haskell Indian Nations University will offer a 4 week Summer Bridge Program for Freshman students focusing on Humanities and English. The Program will develop and implement a culturally relevant curriculum and Summer Bridge Student Handbook that will focus on Native American literature, critical thinking, grammar and composition. The students will be identified as requiring remedial English coursework to bridge the gap between high school and college and will prepare towards completing their degree. The Summer Bridge Program will identify 60 freshman students and each English faculty will conduct an Inventory Exam that will identify the learning styles of each student and develop the coursework activities according to the student learning styles. The Summer Bridge Program will entail three (3) years with the first year as Planning and Curriculum Development; second year will offer the first Summer Bridge Program, and third year will offer the second Summer Bridge Program.

The development of a new Emphasis in Technology and Human Values program integrating humanities study into pre-professional pathways.

Newman University proposes an NEH Humanities Connections Planning Grant to develop a new Emphasis in Technology and Human Values (ETHV) to address a pressing need in higher education today. Mounting evidence demonstrates that the humanities are no longer seen as vital to a university education. At the same time, the accelerating pace of technological change threatens the values needed to sustain a thriving human community. NU’s Emphasis in Technology and Human Values will address both of these concerns by offering a technology-focused integration of the humanities with some of our most popular programs. Emphasizing interdisciplinary course design, hands-on learning, and civic engagement, the ETHV will provide Newman with an innovative curricular model for introducing humanities-based skills, content, and modes of inquiry into a broad range of disciplines.

The development and teaching of a new undergraduate course on the ethical boundaries of community.

In the proposed course, Ani Kokobobo, assistant professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of Kansas, uses canonical works of nineteenth Russian literature and philosophical works to consider the boundaries of communities through the enduring question: "Am I my brother's keeper?" In Russian culture, as reflected in the works of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, community is understood in capacious and almost universalist terms. We focus on the significant moral responsibility these writers believe community members have toward one another and the challenges of upholding these moral responsibilities. Kokobobo pairs the Russian texts with six distinct ethical philosophies-ethical relativism, egoism, consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics, and feminist ethics. Having honed their ethical vocabularies, students spend the last month of this class applying these skills to thinking about the boundaries of our contemporary American communities, with a special focus on racial divisions.

To support the grant initiative "Better Together: Kansans Tell Their Stories" to encourage the study of local cultural resources which reflect the impact of ethnic groups throughout Kansas' 150 years.

Better Together: Kansans Tell Their Stories strengthens community and connects Kansans by uncovering stories that tell a more inclusive history of today's Kansas. A follow up to the previous We the People initiative, these funds will support projects that preserve the history of ethnic and immigrant groups in Kansans. Museum professionals, historians, and folklorists serve as consultants for oral histories, research projects, and exhibit development.

To support projects initiated by Kansas communities to create exhibits, oral histories and heritage tourism activities about what it means to be a resident of Kansas. A new digital shorts component will allow Kansans to tell a visual story. In addition, a special Kansans Tell Their Stories traveling exhibition will be created.

Kansans Tell Their Stories strengthens community and connects Kansans by sharing stories about today's Kansas.A follow up to the previous three We the People initiatives, these funds will support Kansans in creating exhibit, oral history, and heritage tourism projects about what it means to be a Kansan.A new digital shorts component will allow Kansans to tell a visual story. In addition, a special Kansans Tell Their Stories traveling exhibition will be created.

Funding will support a range of projects including the development of resources for the Council's speakers bureau, book and film discussions, civic forums on contemporary issues, and grants for community projects that bring people together to examine historical and contemporary Kansas.

Kansas 150: Preparing for Statehood continues the Kansans Tell Their Stories initiative that encourages communities to identify and share their unique, one-of-a-kind histories, especially stories of statehood and the Civil War. Kansas 150 moves beyond the telling of independent stories and seeks ways to bring these stories together for statewide discussions about the last 150 years. Expanding upon an examination of Kansas history, this initiative is intended to examine contemporary Kansas and invite Kansans to share ideas about the future. Kansas 150 will support preparations for Statehood in 2011 including the development of resources for speakers bureau, book discussions, film discussions, and civic forums on contemporary issues. In addition, special Kansas 150 grants will support documentary shorts, research, exhibitions, oral history projects, public forums, podcasts, video podcasts, and other projects that bring people together to examine historical and contemporary Kansas.

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Two one-week workshops for seventy-two schoolteachers on Native American and African-American educational experience in Kansas.

In summer 2017, the Spencer Museum of Art, located on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, will host two workshops on " Native American and African American Educational Experiences in Kansas, 1830 to 1960." Drawing on the resources and expertise of the Spencer Museum of Art and the University of Kansas; state and national historic sites; archives; and community members, artists, and scholars, each weeklong workshop will engage national K-12 teachers with the complex history of race relations in American education. Through a comparative study of Native American and African American educational history, workshop participants will gain insights into the distinct yet interwoven cultural narratives that comprise U.S. history.

To support the establishment of a designated endowment to provide permanent staffing for the college's semi-autonomous museum, and thereby to continue development of educational programs and improvement of collections management.

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To support the construction of permanent exhibitions at four sites; to support building renovations for office and work space; and to support an endowment for conservation, programs, and staff development.

To support endowment for acquisitions and programming reflecting the diverse heritage, traditions, and history of the area, including juvenile programming in the humanities for disadvantaged children.

Symposia, graduate fellowships, and fund raising, and endowment for a faculty chair, faculty and graduate fellowships, programs, and acquisitions in an Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies.

Kansas State University's Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies requests $500,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and will raise $2 million from non-federal sources to support humanities and public outreach initiatives. The Institute will allocate $1 million to endow one permanent position and $850,000 for one rotating position at K-State for leading scholars of military history or closely related fields; $193,000 will endow a new public lecture, symposium and conference series; $220,000 will endow a fund to support the research and writing of one K-State graduate student each year; $50,000 will be used to establish an endowed fund to enhance the University Library's military history collection.

Endowment for programs designed to encourage, develop, and advance collaborative research in the humanities at the University of Kansas's Hall Center for the Humanities and in the community.

The principal focus of this application is to develop capacity-building programs centered on fostering collaboration in humanities research. While collaboration has not traditionally been the mode of scholarly production in the humanities, faculty and students have become increasingly interested in pursuing collaborative projects. Humanities research produced through collaboration has the potential to answer broader, more complex questions in a more thoroughly interdisciplinary way. The proposed programs, Research Collaboratives and Scholars on Site, will provide institutional support for collaborative research among scholars and between scholars and community partners. Partnerships with community organizations will demonstrate how the humanities inform issues and challenges of wider public concern. The programs will serve as models for how scholars conduct collaborative humanities research and how institutions can support collaborative and public projects.

Improvements to an art museum, including the purchase of compact shelving for a collection storage area housing two-dimensional framed works of art and three-dimensional objects; mechanical repairs to a freight elevator; and renovations to two long-term exhibition galleries.

To support the a two-stage facility enhancement project that will build capacity for sharing the Spencer Museum of Art's global collection of more than 45,000 objects. Space-maximizing changes to collection storage will improve access to objects as well as their safety, while sustaining continued, responsive development of the collection. Modifications to the freight elevator will ensure safe transportation of collection objects and staff between storage and galleries. Renovation and re-installation of two long-term exhibition galleries will refresh these spaces with relevant installations that are pertinent to current humanities scholarship and contemporary audiences.

To support faculty research in the humanities through the establishment of an endowed fund for library acquisitions in targeted areas, including history, English literature, modern languages, and music history.

To emphasize the use of museum collections in undergraduate humanities courses and to make use of the scholarly museum community and regional resources.

To integrate the Museum of Art, the Science Museums and Research Library into a scholarly museum community with undergraduate courses in the humanities. The approach will emphasize the use of museum collections in undergraduate humanities courses.

Consultant help is sought in organizing a systematic program of humanities education that will increase the number of humanities courses, and accordingly reach more students; and in investigating the introduction of a teamtaught interdisciplinary course for business majors.

Evaluating and stengthening the foreign language program.

To provide consultant assistance in analyzing and developing pedagogical and curricular resources for effective humanities general education at Baker University.

To provide a consultant to help design humanities courses for a working adult population with varied ethnic backgrounds.

The school will engage a consultant to assist them in designing, implementing, and improving an individualized learning plan, part of which is presently operating. The consultant will also help develop programs of study more interdisciplinary in nature than present arrangements, and work with faculty members as they adapt to the new plan.

Johnson County Community College requires consultant help to integrate humanities and career courses, to develop interdisciplinary courses for the career student and to determine what amount of humanities training is necessary for career students.