The National Endowment for the Humanities solicits applications for the Institutes for Higher Education Faculty and Institutes for K-12 Educators programs.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/12/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Institutes are residential, virtual, and combined format professional development programs that convene higher education faculty or K-12 educators from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.
Institutes:
- allow immersive study of topics significant to humanities study and teaching
- foster new fields of study and/or revitalize existing areas of inquiry using multiple, rigorous approaches
- model excellent scholarship, teaching, and collegial dialogue
- strengthen humanities teaching and learning in participants’ professional settings
- consider how the humanities topics engage recent developments in the scholarship, teaching, and curricula of participants’ professional settings
- build lasting communities that foster participants’ intellectual and professional collaboration
- reach the widest possible audience for whom the topic is relevant.
Project Design
Institutes run from one to four weeks and may adopt a variety of schedules and formats to suit the needs of the topic and audience. One week is equivalent to five or six days of structured study. Scheduled meetings may or may not be continuous.
You must select one of three formats for the institute:
- Residential: All participants attend the duration of the program at the host site.
- Virtual: All participants attend the duration of the program using an online platform. This can include synchronous and asynchronous sessions.
- Combined: All participants attend a portion of the program virtually and a portion of the program at the host site. Virtual and residential sessions occur at different times, but all participants must attend the same format simultaneously unless modifications are needed for accessibility accommodations
Project Audience
- Institutes for Higher Education Faculty: You must design your Institutes for Higher Education Faculty program for a diverse group of 25-36 higher education faculty participants drawn from across the nation.
- You must target a national audience of full- or part-time faculty who teach undergraduate students and/or whose work in the humanities lies outside undergraduate teaching but who demonstrate that their participation will advance project goals and enhance their own professional work.
- You must identify a primary audience for your institute by subject area(s). You may target a specific audience by, for instance, requiring foreign language proficiency, but the primary audience should be large enough to yield a complete participant group.
- You must reserve 20% of available spaces for non-tenured/non-tenure track faculty members.
- You must reserve 10% of available spaces for advanced graduate students, defined as those who have reached candidacy in a doctoral program or are in the final year of a terminal degree program.
- Institutes for K-12 Educators: You must design your Institutes for K-12 Educators program for a diverse group of 25-36 K-12 educator participants drawn from across the nation.
- You must target a national audience of full- or part-time K-12 educators who teach in public, charter, independent, and religiously affiliated schools, or as home schooling educators.
- You must identify a primary audience for your institute by grade level(s) and subject area(s). You may target a specific audience by, for instance, requiring foreign language proficiency, but the primary audience should be large enough to yield a complete participant group.
- You must reserve 20% of available spaces for early-career educators (those who have been teaching for five years or fewer).
- You may admit museum educators and other K-12 school personnel who demonstrate that participation will advance project goals and enhance their own professional work.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,000,000
- NEH anticipates awarding approximately $1,500,000 among an estimated nine recipients for Higher Education Faculty and $1,500,000 among an estimated nine recipients for K-12 Educators.
Grant Period
October 1, 2025 – December 31, 2026 (15 months).
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments
- State governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
