| CHA-261900-19 | Challenge Programs: Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants | Arizona Western College | Arizona Western College's Project Impact | 10/1/2018 - 9/30/2023 | $400,000.00 | Angela | L. | Creel | | | | Arizona Western College | Yuma | AZ | 85366-0929 | USA | 2018 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants | Challenge Programs | 0 | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | The renovation of Arizona Western College’s library
to include a digital humanities center that supports the college as well as three
other public universities.
PROJECT IMPACT will build infrastructure and increase
capacity-building at the sole academic library in Southwest Arizona that serves
scholars at Arizona Western College and Arizona’s 3 public university. NEH Challenge Grant funding will establish a
Digital Humanities Center that will support intellectually
transformative thoughts and behaviors that will continue to grow over time. The
development of the Conservation Lab will allow scholars to practice the craft
of arts preservation and cataloging while preserving local art
collections. The establishment of a
Digital Humanities Center will provide a large population of low-income,
first-generation, Hispanic scholars access to multimedia, multidisciplinary
learning space dedicated to preserving the region’s unique intellectual content
of materials, disseminating local knowledge to a wider audience, and acting as
a transformational tool to produce new ways of interacting, expressing, and
creating knowledge.
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