Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

NEH Institutes are professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation in order to deepen and enrich their understanding of a variety of topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.  

Most fundamentally, institutes:  

• allow immersive study of topics of significance to the humanities  
• foster new fields of study and/or revitalize existing areas of inquiry  
• reinvigorate teaching and increase intellectual impact in the classroom  
• build lasting communities that foster participants’ intellectual and professional collaboration  

They should:  

• ground the study in significant humanities texts and related resources  
• explore multiple approaches to the topic in a manner that is both rigorous and collegial  
• provide opportunities for deep and collaborative engagement with the topic  
• model excellent scholarship and teaching  
• consider how the topic engages recent developments in the scholarship, teaching, and curriculum of participants’ professional settings  
• reach the widest possible audience for whom the topic is relevant  

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