A Need for Educational Support and Collections Digitization in Response to COVID-19: Earlham College

FAIN: ZED-283909-22

Earlham College (Richmond, IN 47374-4095)
Margaret Thomas (Project Director: May 2021 to March 2025)

New staff, student positions, and equipment to improve online courses and digitize collections.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Earlham College proposes initiatives to satisfy our educational mission for our students and for the general public while training new and future professionals. The first initiative, in honor to our faculty’s dedication to rigorous, engaged teaching is an investment in the resources and expertise to improve pedagogy in online education and to bolster newly created curricula in the humanities. Funds for an Instructional Designer position and for needed technological and library services will greatly improve online and hybrid instruction for our humanities students. The second effort is a collections digitization push that will help us make our significant archival, art, and museum collections readily accessible to the public and scholars. Equipment, two new full-time personnel, and supplies will help us make these collections available through digital portals while we train students in digitization practices.