Program

Challenge Programs: Challenge Grants for Universities

Period of Performance

1/1/1985 - 7/31/1989

Funding Totals (matching)

$125,000.00 (approved)
$125,000.00 (offered)
$125,000.00 (awarded)


Challenge Grant

FAIN: CU-20120-86

University of Alabama, Birmingham (Birmingham, AL 35294-0002)
Theodore M. Benditt (Project Director: May 1985 to January 1988)

To establish an endowment, as part of the university's first capital campaign, to enable the university to provide visiting scholars to conduct faculty semi- nars and to serve as guest lecturers in the basic interdisciplinary humanities courses and in the honors program.