| CZ-50347-14 | Challenge Programs: Special Initiatives | Seminole Community College | The Cultural Understanding and Tolerance Initiative | 9/1/2012 - 7/31/2021 | $100,000.00 | Steven | | de Zwart | | | | Seminole Community College | Sanford | FL | 32773-6199 | USA | 2013 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Special Initiatives | Challenge Programs | 0 | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | Endowment for acquisitions and study abroad, a spend-down fund for a speaker series, curriculum development, exhibits, cultural service learning activities, and study abroad, as well as fundraising expenses.
To maximize impact on today's community college students, Humanities-related curricular and co-curricular content needs to address: (1) intersectionality, the examination of how categories of identity and structures of inequality are mutually constituted and need to continually be understood in relationship to one another; and (2) transnationalism, which focuses on cultures, structures, and relationships that are formed as a result of the flows of people and resources across geopolitical borders. Seminole State is seeking $100,000 in endowment and spend-down funding from NEH to establish a collegewide Cultural Understanding and Tolerance Initiative, which will take the integration of “culture” to deeper levels, offering students exposure to timely, contextual learning experiences atypical of the community college experience. |