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Opportunity Summary:

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant opportunity called Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges is a discretionary grant program designed to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at community colleges. It focuses on disciplines like history, philosophy, literature, and related humanities fields, with the overall aim of improving what students encounter in humanities courses and programs and expanding the ability of faculty and institutions to deliver strong humanities education. Colleges can use the funding either to build on what they already have, such as improving current courses, instructional resources, or humanities programming, or to launch new humanities learning opportunities that better serve their student populations.

A defining feature of this opportunity is its emphasis on organized, theme-based projects. Each proposed initiative must be built around a core topic or a connected set of themes, rather than being a loose collection of unrelated activities. Within that thematic structure, NEH supports a range of approaches. Projects may create sustained opportunities for faculty to study and learn together, such as reading groups, seminars, or curriculum development workshops, with the goal of deepening faculty expertise and translating that learning into better teaching. Grants can also support the creation of new humanities programs, including (but not limited to) new humanities minors, first-year seminars that introduce students to humanities inquiry, and capstone courses that help students synthesize learning. NEH also encourages proposals that bring humanities perspectives into professional and workforce-oriented training areas, such as business, law, economics, technology, nursing, and medicine, helping students in applied fields build stronger ethical reasoning, cultural literacy, historical understanding, and communication skills.

The program also highlights student access and success, including support for bridge programs aimed at at-risk and nontraditional students. In addition, it encourages colleges to make better use of humanities resources, especially digital humanities tools and materials, which can include digitized collections, online exhibits, data-driven humanities research methods, or technology-supported teaching strategies that strengthen humanities learning. Another important component is collaboration: institutions may propose projects carried out jointly with another organization such as a college or university, a K-12 school or district, a museum or library, or a historical or cultural society, allowing community colleges to tap into wider expertise, collections, and public humanities networks.

In the source announcement provided, the funding opportunity number is 20150824 AE and the CFDA number is 45.162 (Promotion of the Humanities: Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development). The award ceiling is $100,000 and the award floor is listed as $1. The opportunity does not require cost sharing or matching funds. The posted date is June 3, 2015, and the closing date is August 24, 2015. Eligibility is limited to U.S. nonprofit, tax-exempt two-year colleges, making it specifically tailored to the community college sector rather than four-year institutions or other types of organizations.

For official details and full guidance, the announcement points applicants to the NEH webpage for the program (http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/humanities initiatives community colleges). The listed contact for access issues or questions is the NEH Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20506, phone 202-606-8471, email hi@neh.gov.

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