The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Education Programs is accepting 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: 02/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $220,000
Grant Duration: 15 months
Details:
NEH Institutes are professional development programs that convene higher education faculty or K-12 educators from across the nation to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.
Purpose
This notice solicits applications for Institutes for Higher Education Faculty and Institutes for K12 Educators that will take place in 2024.
NEH-funded institutes are 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.
Most fundamentally, institutes:
- allow immersive study of humanities topics
- foster new fields of study and/or revitalize existing areas of inquiry
- strengthen humanities teaching and learning in the classroom
- build lasting communities that foster participants’ intellectual and professional collaboration
Institutes should:
- ground the study in significant humanities texts and related resources
- explore multiple, rigorous approaches to the topic
- consider how the topic engages recent developments in the scholarship, teaching, and curricula of participants’ professional settings
- provide opportunities for deep and collaborative engagement with the topic
- model excellent scholarship, teaching, and collegial dialogue
- reach the widest possible audience for whom the topic is relevant
Key Considerations
Audience
You must design your institutes for a national audience of participants from across humanities disciplines and professions who work in higher education or K-12 education. You must identify a primary audience for your workshop.
Institutes for Higher Education Faculty
You must design Institutes for Higher Education Faculty for a diverse group of 25-36 higher education faculty participants drawn from across the nation.
- You must target 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 may target a more specific audience by, for instance, requiring foreign language proficiency or by including those outside the humanities, but the potential audience should be large enough to yield a complete participant group.
- You must reserve twenty percent of available spaces for non-tenured/non-tenure track faculty members.
- You must reserve ten percent 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 Institutes for K-12 Educators 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 may admit museum educators and other K-12 school system personnel—such as, but not limited to, administrators, substitute teachers, and curriculum supervisors who can demonstrate that participation will advance project goals and enhance their professional work.
- You may target a more specific audience by, for instance, requiring foreign language proficiency or by including those outside the humanities, but the potential audience should be large enough to yield a complete participant group.
- You must reserve twenty percent of available spaces for early-career educators (those who have been teaching for five years or fewer).
Award amounts
You may request up to $220,000, depending on the duration of your proposed institute.
- One week $120,000
- Two weeks$175,000
- Three weeks $200,000
- Four weeks $220,000
NEH will award successful applicants outright funds, which are not contingent on additional funding from other sources.
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.
Period of performance
All projects must have a start date of October 1, 2023, and a period of performance of 15 months, ending on December 31, 2024.
Criteria
Eligible Applicants:
- City or township governments
- State 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
- County governments
- Special district governments
- Private institutions of higher education
Institute participants must be:
- United States citizens, including those teaching abroad at U.S. chartered institutions; residents of U.S. jurisdictions; or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.
- U.S. citizens teaching abroad at U.S. chartered institutions, and faculty, librarians, and other personnel of schools operated by the Federal government are also eligible to participate.
The following are not eligible to participate in NEH-funded institutes:
- foreign nationals teaching abroad
- individuals who are related to the project director(s)
- individuals who are affiliated with the applicant institution (e.g., employees, currently enrolled students, etc.)
- individuals who have been taught or advised in an academic capacity by the project director(s)
- individuals who are delinquent in the repayment of federal debt (e.g., taxes, student loans, child support payments, and delinquent payroll taxes for household or other employees)
- individuals who have been debarred or suspended by any federal department or agency
individuals who have attended a previous NEH professional development project (Seminars, Landmarks, or Institutes) led by the project director(s) - NEH does not require participants to have earned an advanced degree
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
