Preserving Central Washington University’s Engaged Humanities Pedagogy, EthicsLab, and Digital Scholarship, Post-COVID

FAIN: AH-274442-20

Central Washington University (Ellensburg, WA 98926-7599)
Jill Hernandez (Project Director: May 2020 to July 2023)
Rebecca Lubas (Co Project Director: June 2020 to July 2023)

The retention of an archivist and six faculty lines addressing contemporary ethical challenges.

This proposal preserves and retains six Humanities faculty and staff within the College of Arts & Humanities and the Brooks Library at Central Washington University (a regional comprehensive with 12,000 students). Its success would provide uninterrupted course coverage and Humanities scholarship in multiple Humanities disciplines, and ensure Central’s new CWU EthicsLab can move forward despite current University spending freezes. The CWU EthicsLab is conceived as an interdisciplinary, public humanities team and space that develops innovative approaches to actual ethical dilemmas facing the community through data-informed ethical analyses, pedagogy, and research. The EthicsLab incubates the Library’s Digital Scholarship Lab, which will foster collaborative Humanities inquiry and active learning through data-intensive, visually-mediated scholarly exploration that provides access to analysis tools in a supportive environment.