Teagle Foundation and NEH

by Elliott A Pollard
October 11, 2022

The Teagle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are jointly sponsoring a grant program to revitalize the role of the humanities in general education and in doing so, expose a broad array of students to the pow- er of the humanities; help students of all backgrounds build a sense of belonging and community; strengthen the coherence and cohesiveness of general education; and increase teaching opportunities for humanities faculty.

This initiative is inspired by a successful program model developed at Purdue University, which has helped students in pre-professional majors strengthen critical thinking and communication skills, reversed the decline in credit hours

at Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts, and raised morale and teaching opportunities for humanities faculty.

CRITERIA FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS
• A faculty-led and faculty-owned initiative
• A common intellectual experience anchored in transformative texts for
incoming students
• Coherent pathways through general education
• Student reach, particularly for STEM and other pre-professional majors
• Sustainability
• Assessment
• Dissemination

The concept paper should provide a sketch of the project, with an eye towards meeting the criteria discussed above for faculty-led curricular reform and longer-term sustainability. The concept paper should be 3-5 pages in length. Please begin the concept paper with a 200-300 word abstract that includes project goals and how the project is aligned with the RFP's call for establishing a common intellectual experience anchored in transformative texts for a significant share of the incoming student body and coherent pathways through general education. Please indicate the type of grant (planning or implementation) that is of interest and the requested award amount. All concept papers should list two co-PIs who are tenured or tenure track faculty and include a provisional list of faculty members who are interested in teaching with transformative texts.

TIMELINE:

Concept papers for planning and implementation awards must be submitted by December 1, 2022

Applicants will be notified about their status by early February. Applicants will receive status notifications by February 2023. Applicants who are invited to submit proposals will be expected to finalize their applications by early April 2023.

The next round of planning and implementation awards under the Teagle-NEH partnership will be made by May 2023. Work supported by the grant may begin as early as summer 2023.