Humanities in Practice: The Center for Engaged Humanities

FAIN: CHA-292036-24

Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO 80521-2807)
Michael Carolan (Project Director: October 2022 to September 2023)
Greg L. Dickinson (Project Director: September 2023 to present)

Renovations in Colorado State University’s Andrew G. Clark building for the construction of a new Center for Engaged Humanities in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

The College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University (CSU) seeks funding to support the renovation of space to house the newly-formed Center for Engaged Humanities. The Center renews the university’s land grant mission by engaging members of the public and community organizations as critical collaborators in humanities scholarship and programming designed to strengthen local, state, and regional democratic institutions and directly engage the needs of all Colorado residents. Operating as a humanistic thinktank and an engagement laboratory, the Center will match humanities expertise to community needs, train students and faculty in engaged scholarship best practices and model the humanities’ capacity to unite physical, cultural and human architectures in democratic decision making processes. As a highly visible, accessible campus portal devoted to serving the public, it likewise seeks to build trust and community investment in higher education institutions in the Intermountain West.