Faculty to provide immersive-humanities experiences for at-risk undergraduates

FAIN: AH-275816-20

Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN 47933-2484)
Jill Lamberton (Project Director: May 2020 to present)

The retention of three visiting positions to support the creation of courses for at-risk students.

This project retains Classics, Ethnomusicology and History visiting faculty in positions threatened by the pandemic. Together, the three faculty will restore nine humanities courses to the fall semester curriculum, and the course content will emphasize new, digital humanities experiences for online or hybrid courses. Our small liberal arts college for men has an excellent track record of graduating humanities majors. The success of our at-risk first-year students is directly attributable to a summer-bridge program designed that introduces them to humanities disciplines. This program is tentatively canceled due to the pandemic and will be restructured for delivery in the fall. Retaining three visiting faculty will allow us to reassign fall courses to ensure bridge-program directors can design a new, team-taught, interdisciplinary humanities course that includes, pending grant approval, humanities modules taught by the retained faculty, a new course to replace the summer-bridge program.