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Program

Challenge Programs: Special Initiatives

Period of Performance

9/1/2011 - 7/31/2020

Funding Totals (matching)

$100,000.00 (approved)
$40,538.00 (offered)
$43,624.00 (awarded)

Establishing a Center for Humanities and Medicine at Ivy Tech Community College-Wabash Valley

FAIN: CZ-50312-13

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, Wabash Valley (Terre Haute, IN 47802-4883)
Allen Shotwell (Project Director: February 2012 to present)

Endowment and fundraising expenses to establish a Center for Humanities and Medicine.

As part of an ongoing, College-wide effort to increase the level of humanities education of its students, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, Wabash Valley (Ivy Tech) proposes to establish a Center for Humanities and Medicine. The Center will organize lectures, workshops and exhibits around an annual theme that relates medicine and the humanities and will be directed by a member of the Ivy Tech--Wabash Valley humanities faculty. By linking humanities and medicine, Ivy Tech hopes to increase student awareness of and participation in the humanities.