A three-year project to develop an undergraduate laboratory space and related curriculum that would engage students in the study of global print and manuscript cultures.

We seek to establish a dedicated undergraduate laboratory space anchored in the world-leading University of Iowa Center for the Book. Further, we propose to develop an undergraduate curriculum that will flourish in the envisioned workspace. The heart of the curricular proposal is a new introductory course in global print cultures, paired with an existing course on global manuscript cultures. Our goals are threefold: 1) to create and sustain spaces where students learn how material texts from diverse cultural traditions were made; 2) by integrating hands-on making into students’ education, to deepen their understanding of key humanities themes, such as the interpretation of texts and how humans transform, reinterpret, and sustain artifacts and ideas over time and across cultures; & 3) to strengthen the humanities at Iowa by building collaborative connections between faculty, curators, book artists, engineers, scientists, and librarians teaching with material texts across the university.

Continuing employment for nine faculty members in English, history, and foreign languages to develop online course materials and teach humanities classes.

Iowa State University requests NEH CARES – Education support to rehire nine contingent faculty members to convert and teach fourteen online humanities courses in the Fall of 2020. In addition to retaining at-risk faculty positions and expertise, these courses will pilot and deploy innovative online materials that will enhance the education of our students, including students who cannot travel to campus. Iowa State supports the thorough integration of the humanities into the curriculum as an essential component in meeting the global challenges facing humanity. A keen understanding of the past coupled with the ability to reason and communicate effectively with diverse audiences are skills essential for the professional and personal success of our graduates. The supported courses represent the disciplines of English, History and the at-risk, critical foreign language programs of Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.

Development of a civic literacy and engagement certificate within the undergraduate teacher and general education programs.

The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) proposes a $35,000 NEH Humanities Connections Planning Grant for the project, Humanities for Civic Education: Preparing Teachers and Students for Engaged Citizenship, which will expand the reach of humanities education at UNI by creating a Civic Literacy and Engagement certificate within our general education program. Faculty in the humanities will join faculty from education and the social sciences to learn about best practices in civic education and design curriculum that helps students develop civic knowledge, skills, dispositions, and habits. Their work will culminate in a general education certificate that will center the humanities in civic education and enhance the preparation of K-12 teachers to teach civics and social studies.

The preparation and teaching of an undergraduate seminar addressing questions of friendship, love, and human dignity.

The Luther College course Enduring Questions: From Gilgamesh to Frankenstein, is an exploration of crucial questions through the careful reading of key works from some of the greatest minds in human history. This seminar course will ask what is the nature of love and friendship, and what do we mean by human dignity? Students will read The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Antigone of Socrates, several Platonic dialogues, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Dante's Inferno, Machiavelli's The Prince, Shakespeare's King Lear, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The readings will be supplemented by attendance at local artistic and dramatic events and by the study of material artifacts in museums.

A series of activities, including a grant program, that focus on Iowa history between the World Wars, 1918-1940.

Humanities Iowa proposes to use the We the People funding to conduct council conducted programs and make re-grants for projects that focus on Iowa history between the World Wars, 1918-1940. $21,000 will be expended on council conducted programs and $33,630 in re-grants for projects involving Iowa's heritage, history and local heroes of the 1918-1940 era. Non-profit groups will be encouraged to create programs for the general public, particularly to include participation by students in the development of the programs. We will also promote applications for re-grants for teacher seminars.

To support both grants and programs conducted by Humanities Iowa that focus on the circumstances and people that have contributed to cultural, economic, and civic progress in the United States, with particular emphasis on projects that examine cultural and ethnic diversity in Iowan life and in the formation of civic identity on the local, regional and national levels.

Humanities Iowa proposes to administer Council-conducted programs and to make re-grants to Iowan nonprofits. Applicants for WE THE PEOPLE funding will be encouraged to design programs and projects that capture both the heritage and contemporary concerns of Iowans, especially in rural areas. Of special interest are projects that explore how cultural and ethnic diversity informs and challenges our collective ideas of identity, particularly our identity as Americans.

Council-conducted programs that examine the relevance of cultural and ethnic diversity in Iowan life and the formation of civic identity on the local, regional and national levels.

Humanities Iowa proposes to administer Council-conducted programs and to make re-grants to Iowan nonprofits. Applicants for WE THE PEOPLE funding will be encouraged to design programs and projects that capture both the heritage and contemporary concerns of Iowans, especially in rural areas. Of special interest are projects that explore how cultural and ethnic diversity informs and challenges our collective ideas of identity, particularly our identity as Americans and Iowans.

To support both Council-conducted programs and regrants in American history and culture, with particular emphasis on projects that capture both the heritage and contemporary concerns of Iowans, especially in rural areas, and that explore how cultural and ethnic diversity informs and challenges collective ideas of identity as Americans and Iowans.

Humanities Iowa proposes to administer Council-conducted programs and to make re-grants to Iowan nonprofits. Applicants for WE THE PEOPLE funding will be encouraged to design programs and projects that capture both the heritage and contemporary concerns of Iowans, especially in rural areas. Of special interest are projects that explore how cultural and ethnic diversity informs and challenges our collective ideas of identity, particularly our identity as Americans and Iowans.

To support the development of new donor sources for a capital campaign to restore historic buildings at the museum complex; to eliminate debts incurred in earlier restorations; to support installation of new computer and surveillance systems and augmentation of the operating endowment.

To assist in the renovation of the college's library, and to provide controlledclimate space for the library's special collections.

To support the establishment of an endowment for three humanities professorships, humanities faculty development and research, and core curriculum program development.

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To be used to eliminate debt and to endow a chair.

To be used for renovation in order to establish a Center for the Humanities and for creation of endowment for a revolving chair in the humanities.

To endow an annual distinguished teaching professorship that will be awarded toa faculty member who has taught the humanities with distinction, and who will teach core courses and develop activities aimed at improving humanities education.

To support completion of exhibitions and capital improvements at the Woodward Riverboat Museum; to support restoration of a historic house museum; to supportdevelopment of a permanent membership and fund-raising program and purchase of storage and archives equipment; to support an endowment for museum operations.

To support doubling the space at the Woodward River Museum, making capital improvements at the Mathias Ham House Historic Site, and increasing endowment to support education and exhibit programs.

To support the renovation and equipping of two networked computer classrooms toserve the college's introductory humanities core course.

Endowment for new humanities positions at the Mississippi River Museum: Curator of Environmental History, Education Director, Lead Interpreter, and Collections Manager.

To create an endowment to support humanities staffing, exhibitions, and interpretation.

The Dubuque County Historical Society requests $750,000 and commits to raise $2,250,000 to create a humanities endowment of $3,000,000 to support humanities staffing, exhibition and interpretation. This will endow the position of Director of Interpretation, who will be a highly talented and motivated humanist dedicated to quality exhibitions, collections and programs. He/she will be integrally involved in the intellectual life of the Society's museums: the River Museum, the Ham House, and the Old Jail Museum. The Director of Interpretation will be the lead humanist for the development of a series of exhibitions and interpretive programming supported by this endowment and presented at the three museums. The River Museum will continue to advance humanities programming and exhibitions in its current facilities. The humanities endowment will also support the interpretive programming at the Society's Mathias Ham House and Old Jail Museum.

The renovation of climate control systems in a history museum along with the restoration of several associated historic structures, which together document the history of the Mississippi River and of the people who lived on its banks.

Dubuque County Historical Society's Preservation & Restoration through Campus Improvements project will focus on preserving and maintaining our historical structures and intellectual property, expanding the river story that relates directly to history and innovation, and reinvigorating our interpretation model to provide the 21st century learner with real-world, vital, interdisciplinary, and design-based learning that relates directly to the humanities.

To establish an endowment to increase the library's budget for humanities materials.

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Consultant help is sought in redesigning an appropriate form and content for a re-entry liberal arts seminar for part-time, adult students in a degree program.