A three-year project focused on curriculum development and the creation of an archive combined with campus and community activities exploring a natural and cultural heritage site adjacent to the college’s Palamanui campus.

In keeping with the National Endowment for the Humanities’ “Protecting Our Cultural Heritage” and “Providing access to NEH-funded products” priority areas, Hawai’i Community College will engage students, faculty, and the community in a project that utilize a wide array of humanities-based activities in a newly formed Palamanui Forest Preserve adjacent to our campus. Combining experiential learning, we plan to study, teach, and share the rich cultural heritage of indigenous Hawaiian people in a region containing an important remnant of the world’s most endangered ecosystem, the lowland tropical dry forest. The project includes creating a map and digital archives of the ancient and modern trails and rich cultural heritage of the forest, establishing a cultural speaker series and workday for the community, and faculty professional development opportunities to develop curriculum that recognizes the region as a cultural heritage.

Retention of eight staff positions to develop an online curriculum, teacher training, and a family engagement program based on Native Hawaiian storytelling, oral history, and geography.

Project Huli Honua will address the needs of students, parents, and teachers as we navigate through a new normal. Online Hawaiian cultural, historical, and place- based units will be developed focusing on the geology of Hawai‘i in order to perpetuate traditional Hawaiian knowledge and methodologies through various digital platforms. This project supports formal classroom teachers with a comprehensive standards-based curriculum as an online resource that is easily accessible to students through Google Classrooms and various distance learning alternatives.

Preparatory training sessions and discussion groups that integrate veterans’ experiences into an ancient Native Hawaiian rite of passage, for Maui County veterans.

Ka Ho?ea Mai Ana, the warrior’s arrival home is a moment of joy and sorrow, relief and remorse with human responses that transcend time. Ka! Mauli! is an ancient Native Hawaiian practice to reintegrate male and female warriors consisting of: 1) The Rite of Ka Mauli—the choice to enter the military, 2) ?Uo and Malina Ke Kino—integration of strengths gained through service, and 3) ?Uo Ke Kino Wailua—making meaning of the experience. These core concepts will be brought to life through cultural demonstrations providing an empowering lens to explore expressive genres spanning U.S. conflicts. The program will include two large-scale discussions (75-100 participants), two 14-week small-group discussion sessions (20 participants), and a preparatory training for discussion leaders (5 peer and 5 community vet leaders). Results include: 1) increased awareness for 75-100 community members, 2) therapeutic experience for 20 small-group participants, and 3) 10 trained leaders to continue discussions.

A traveling exhibition, "Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front, 1941-1945" in seven communities throughout the state, together with local programming and a teacher workshop on the significance of World War II.

The Hawai’i Council for the Humanities will tour a Smithsonian Institution Museum on Main Street exhibition called “Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front, 1941-1945” to seven community venues around the state in 2006. Each site will develop local programs through mini-grants provided by HCH and the Council will coordinate development of a display and curriculum materials and hold a teacher workshop on the significance of World War II and the home front around the nation, including the immediate post-war period, and compare and contrast this with the experience in Hawai‘i.

A variety of projects including teacher workshops, on American and local history, programs to commemorate the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial, Literature and Medicine discussion groups, and History Day.

The Hawai’i Council for the Humanities will coordinate: three teacher workshops on American and local history; programs with the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History; Literature and Medicine reading-discussion groups exploring concerns among health care professionals; public and school library participation in the NEH “We the People Bookshelf;” and related history day and Motheread programs and publish a special issue of its newsletter.

Development of up to four websites using primary documents and sources for the creation of teaching materials associated with Hawai'i's educational history standards and benchmarks. Funding will also support partnerships with established cultural organizations to expand HCH's outreach, teacher workshops that take advantage of and build upon national commemorative events and resources, and HCH's "Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care" and "Motheread" programs.

The Hawai'i Council for the Humanities (HCH) will coordinate a series of partnership agreements and contracts with trusted humanities groups and scholars to 1) created at least four web reference sites for K-12 teachers tied to primary sources found in the partner's archive, library or collections, with lesson plans and classroom activities linked to the Hawai'i state Department of Education history content standards and benchmarks; 2) continue and pursue partnerships that allow HCH to take a more active role in community programs, literary festivals, and educational programs, with the goal of extending such programs to hard-to-reach and at-risk communities, including bringing more programs to the islands of Maui, Kaua'i, Hawai'i, Moloka'i and Lana'i; 3) continuing partnerships with hospitals and health care professionals to do "Literature and Medicine" programs in Hawai'i; and 4) coordinating the primary council-conducted programs of the Council, history day and Motheread.

Two one-week workshops to study the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, interpreting local sites in their geographical, historical, and cultural contexts.

Two one-week workshops for eighty school teachers to study the history and commemoration of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In most history books, Pearl Harbor is reduced simply as an event: a treacherous Japanese “sneak attack that incites “slumbering” America to war and ultimately to its victory. Missing is the complexity of causes and legacies of war, including social and cultural—the important lessons of history. This proposal outlines a plan for two weeklong workshops for 80 teachers, held in Honolulu, Hawaii in June and July 2007. The workshop will engage teachers in examining the Pearl Harbor attack and investigating the structuring of that history within broader social, cultural, and historical contexts that emphasize multiple perspectives and connections to global forces, events, and ideas. Participants will apply their workshop learning in web-based lessons and collaborative projects that they develop in peer groups. Project work will begin in October 2006 and end in December 2007.

This proposal outlines a plan for two one-week workshops that provide 80 humanities teachers with training and experience in the use and interpretation of the USS Arizona Memorial, the historic site devoted to honoring those who died in the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and related material and archival resources. Through historic site visits, lectures by scholars, and sessions led by experienced teachers, participants will explore the historical significance and meanings of the attack. Participants will also develop technology-enhanced lesson plans that apply their new understanding in their teaching.

Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on World War II landmarks in and around Pearl Harbor in Hawai'i.

This submission proposes two one-week workshops for community college faculty on "History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War" (July 25-30; August 1-6, 2010). Utilizing resources associated with Pearl Harbor and Hawaii's World War II historic sites, the workshops will consider the importance of culture(s) of commemoration for understanding and teaching Pacific War history. The program will examine a number of key sites of memory in Hawaii, the Pacific and Asia, and provide an opportunity for participants to pursue individual research and teaching interests relevant to a range of disciplines,including history, anthropology, Asian and Pacific studies, international politics, and religion. The workshops will be cosponsored by the East-West Center, the Arizona Memorial Museum Association and the National Park Service World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument.

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To support an endowment for visiting professorships leading to a senior chair; faculty development; increased library and information technology acquisitions.

To support purchase of land, construction of an access road and a building for orientation exhibitions, endowment for a key humanities position, and fundraising costs.

Integration of various databases and digital assets into a central content management system to ensure improved access to and continued sustainability of Indigenous cultural collections at Bishop Museum, Hawai'i.

Ho?a Hou Ka Lamaku - Lighting a Path to New Digital Infrastructure for Bishop Museum Cultural Collections will provide transformative change for the care and sharing of digitized cultural heritage at Bishop Museum centered on the inclusion and attribution of Indigenous knowledge. This project will improve every aspect of our digital framework by investing in information systems and hardware; data standardization, integration, and digital asset management; and online platform development and outreach.

This project will publish 'Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia,' written by NEH Fellow Nancy J. Smith-Hefner (NEH grant number FB-37676-02), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and redistribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook.

To plan, develop and offer a course that will develop awareness of the necessity for critical study of alternative perspectives of development in communication policy and planning.

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To support integration of the humanities into the general education requirements of vocational students by developing a competency-based, humanities- oriented program: a series of 4 sequential cross-disciplinary courses and modules that focus on the theme "Man as Creator".

To support a series of local workshops and a planning meeting to bring together scholars of Asia and scholars of Africa to explore themes and events that connect the two continents.

To support a SCHOOLS FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM planning project to connect humanities education and technology at a public secondary school in Honolulu.

A series of faculty development seminars and workshops to be delivered over two years by the Asian Studies Development Program at four mainland sites.

To conduct a seminar of 30 established humanist-legal scholars for use in liberal arts-law courses in American colleges and universities

To support an eight-week institute for 20 college and university teachers on selected topics in comparative Asian and Western philosophy.

To support a six-week summer institute on Nagarjuna and the effect of his writings on the philosophy, religion, and art of Asia.

To support five-week summer institutes for 26 faculty members in three successive summers: Chinese culture and civilization in the first year, South Asian traditions in the second, and Japanese and Korean cultures in the third.