Opportunity Information: Apply for 20090317 BI
Apply for 20090317 BI
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Landmarks of American History and Culture Community College Faculty" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.163 Promotion of the HumanitiesProfessional Development.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jan 6, 2009 and posted on Jan 6, 2009.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 17, 2009. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $140,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: City or township governments Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education.
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Opportunity Summary:
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its We the People initiative, offered the Landmarks of American History and Culture: Community College Faculty grant to support intensive professional development workshops for community college educators from across the United States. The program is designed around one-week, residence-based workshops that use historically significant places as the core classroom. Rather than treating historic sites as optional field trips, the workshops are built to show faculty how to use physical landscapes, built environments, museum collections, and archival holdings to teach central themes in American history and culture. Topics can span American history and government as well as literature, art history, and other humanities fields, as long as the site and materials meaningfully support rigorous humanities inquiry.
A central expectation is that each workshop is anchored at or near a landmark location with clear national significance, such as presidential residences or libraries, colonial settlements, major battlefields, historic districts, or places closely tied to influential writers or artists. Applicants are expected to make a strong, evidence-based case for why the chosen site matters, what primary resources are available there (for example, documents, artifacts, artworks, architecture, or archival collections), and how those resources will be actively used to deepen participants knowledge and teaching practice. The program emphasizes academically serious engagement with key primary sources and major interpretive questions, not general tourism. To strengthen the scholarly level of the workshop, NEH expects leading scholars to participate as lecturers or seminar leaders so that attendees leave with both content expertise and improved methods for interpreting and teaching from place-based materials.
The grant structure anticipates that hosts will run the workshop twice during the summer, serving a national audience, with each one-week session accommodating 25 community college faculty members. Participants are expected to demonstrate what they gained by producing tangible outcomes, such as a research paper or substantial course materials that translate the workshop content into classroom use. On the host side, NEH expects institutions to provide an environment suitable for scholarly work and sustained discussion, including appropriate facilities for research, seminars, and participant interaction. Hosts are also responsible for arranging adequate participant housing logistics; participants typically pay housing costs out of stipends provided to them under the Landmarks Workshop grant.
Eligible hosts include a wide range of organizations capable of delivering high-quality humanities programming tied to significant sites, including community colleges, universities and four-year colleges, learned societies, libraries and other repositories, centers for advanced study, cultural organizations, professional associations, and certain government and tribal entities. The opportunity was a discretionary grant program (CFDA 45.163, Promotion of the Humanities: Professional Development) with no cost-sharing or matching requirement. NEH anticipated making about 10 awards, with an award ceiling of $140,000 and no stated award floor. For this specific posting, the opportunity was listed as Funding Opportunity Number 20090317, posted January 6, 2009, with a closing date of March 17, 2009. NEH also encouraged proposals that connect to the NEH Picturing America program by focusing on artists or artworks featured there, signaling an interest in workshops that thoughtfully integrate visual culture and art-based primary sources into humanities teaching.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is the NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture: Community College Faculty grant?
It is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, offered through the We the People initiative, that supports intensive professional development workshops for community college educators from across the United States. The workshops are designed as one-week, residence-based experiences centered on historically significant places used as the core classroom.
What is the main purpose of these Landmarks workshops?
The program aims to help community college faculty strengthen their knowledge and teaching of central themes in American history and culture by using place-based humanities resources. Rather than treating historic sites as optional field trips, the workshops are structured to show educators how to teach directly from physical landscapes, built environments, museum collections, and archival holdings.
Who are the intended participants?
The workshops are intended for community college faculty members from across the United States.
What is the format and length of the workshop?
The program is built around one-week, residence-based workshops.
How many times is the workshop expected to run?
The grant structure anticipates that host institutions will run the workshop twice during the summer.
How many participants are expected per session?
Each one-week session is expected to accommodate 25 community college faculty members.
What kinds of topics are appropriate for a Landmarks workshop?
Topics can span American history and government as well as literature, art history, and other humanities fields, as long as the landmark site and available materials meaningfully support rigorous humanities inquiry and teaching.
What does it mean that the site is the "core classroom"?
It means the workshop is designed around the landmark location and its primary resources. Participants learn how to use the site itself, its collections, and its records as central evidence for interpreting and teaching humanities themes, not as a supplemental excursion.
What types of landmark locations does NEH expect workshops to be anchored around?
NEH expects each workshop to be anchored at or near a landmark with clear national significance, such as presidential residences or libraries, colonial settlements, major battlefields, historic districts, or places closely tied to influential writers or artists.
How should an applicant justify the importance of the chosen site?
Applicants are expected to make a strong, evidence-based case for why the site matters nationally, what primary resources are available there (such as documents, artifacts, artworks, architecture, or archival collections), and how those resources will be actively used to deepen participants knowledge and teaching practice.
What kinds of primary resources are relevant to these workshops?
Examples include documents, artifacts, artworks, architecture, museum collections, and archival holdings associated with the landmark site and its interpretive themes.
Is the program more like tourism or academic study?
The program emphasizes academically serious engagement with key primary sources and major interpretive questions. It is not intended to be general tourism.
Are scholars expected to be involved in the workshop?
Yes. NEH expects leading scholars to participate as lecturers or seminar leaders to strengthen the scholarly level of the workshop and ensure participants leave with both content expertise and improved interpretive and teaching methods.
What kinds of outcomes are participants expected to produce?
Participants are expected to demonstrate what they gained by producing tangible outcomes such as a research paper or substantial course materials that translate the workshop content into classroom use.
What responsibilities do host institutions have for the learning environment?
NEH expects host institutions to provide an environment suitable for scholarly work and sustained discussion, including appropriate facilities for research, seminars, and participant interaction.
What responsibilities do hosts have related to participant housing?
Hosts are responsible for arranging adequate participant housing logistics. Participants typically pay housing costs out of stipends provided to them under the Landmarks Workshop grant.
Who is eligible to host a Landmarks workshop?
Eligible hosts include organizations capable of delivering high-quality humanities programming tied to significant sites, including community colleges, universities and four-year colleges, learned societies, libraries and other repositories, centers for advanced study, cultural organizations, professional associations, and certain government and tribal entities.
Is cost-sharing or matching required?
No. This opportunity had no cost-sharing or matching requirement.
What is the CFDA number and program description for this opportunity?
It was a discretionary grant program under CFDA 45.163, Promotion of the Humanities: Professional Development.
How many awards did NEH anticipate making?
NEH anticipated making about 10 awards.
What was the maximum award amount?
The award ceiling was $140,000.
Was there a minimum (floor) award amount stated?
No stated award floor was provided in the posting.
What was the Funding Opportunity Number for this posting?
The Funding Opportunity Number listed was 20090317.
When was the opportunity posted and when did it close?
It was posted on January 6, 2009, and the closing date was March 17, 2009.
How does the opportunity relate to NEH Picturing America?
NEH encouraged proposals that connect to the NEH Picturing America program by focusing on artists or artworks featured there. This signals an interest in workshops that thoughtfully integrate visual culture and art-based primary sources into humanities teaching.
Can workshops focus on art history or visual culture?
Yes. Art history and other humanities fields are included among acceptable topics, and the program explicitly encouraged connections to NEH Picturing America, indicating support for workshops that integrate artworks and visual culture as primary sources.
What does NEH emphasize about how participants should learn from place-based materials?
NEH emphasizes active use of the site and its resources to engage major interpretive questions and key primary sources. The goal is to improve both humanities content knowledge and the ability to interpret and teach using place-based evidence.
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