Program

Education Programs: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Education)

Period of Performance

1/1/2015 - 12/31/2016

Funding Totals

$350,000.00 (approved)
$350,000.00 (awarded)


Warrior-Scholar Project: Second Expansion Phase

FAIN: AH-230095-15

Warrior-Scholar Project (Washington, DC 20005-3408)
Christopher R. Howell (Project Director: September 2014 to December 2015)
Sidney Ellington (Project Director: December 2015 to May 2017)

A series of humanities workshops for American military veterans preparing to enter colleges and universities, preceded by an intensive training session for workshop leaders.

The Warrior-Scholar Project proposes to build on its recent success in conducting humanities workshops at Yale University, Harvard University and the University of Michigan for American military veterans preparing to enter colleges and universities.  It would expand to 5-7 additional college and university campuses in summer 2015. The summer sessions would be preceded by an intensive Directors Training Course for new workshop leaders.