Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

Overview

<p>The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Education Programs is accepting applications for the Institutes for Higher Education Faculty program. NEH Institutes are professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation in order to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.</p> <p>This notice solicits applications for Institutes for Higher Education Faculty that will take place in 2023.</p> <p>NEH-funded institutes are professional development programs that convene higher education faculty 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.</p> <p><strong>Most fundamentally, institutes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>allow immersive study of humanities topics</li> <li>foster new fields of study and/or revitalize existing areas of inquiry</li> <li>strengthen humanities teaching and learning in the classroom</li> <li>build lasting communities that foster participants’ intellectual and professional collaboration</li> </ul> <p><strong>Institutes should:</strong></p> <ul> <li>ground the study in significant humanities texts and related resources</li> <li>explore multiple, rigorous approaches to the topic</li> <li>consider how the topic engages recent developments in the scholarship, teaching, and curricula of participants’ professional settings</li> <li>provide opportunities for deep and collaborative engagement with the topic</li> <li>model excellent scholarship, teaching, and collegial dialogue</li> <li>reach the widest possible audience for whom the topic is relevant</li> <li>Audience</li> </ul> <p>Each institute must be designed for a diverse group of 25-36 higher education faculty participants drawn from across the nation.</p> <ul> <li>Applicants 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.</li> <li>At least five spaces must be reserved for non-tenured/non-tenure-track faculty members.</li> <li>Three spaces may be reserved 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</li> <li>Level II projects may also cultivate an additional audience interested in professional development opportunities beyond the core participant group.</li> </ul>