Indepth Arts News:
"NEH Announces $17.6 Million in New Grants"
1999-07-22 until 1999-07-22
National Endowment for the Humanities
Washington, DC,
USA United States of America
WASHINGTON, July 22 – William R. Ferris, chairman of the
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), today
announced 163 grants totaling $17.6 million.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is helping to bring
exciting programs, technology and storytelling into the nations
classrooms, living rooms and communities, said Chairman Ferris.
This summers grants offer fine examples in each of those areas,
including Schools for a New Millennium, documentary films,
museum exhibitions, literacy programs and family-history
activities. These projects will bring the many voices of the nations
past into the hearts and minds of millions of Americans of all
ages.
Among the grants awarded this round are 14 Schools for a New
Millennium grants, which enable selected schools to weave
computer use into their humanities curriculum and become models
for how to use computer technology in day-to-day teaching.
These grants are part of NEHs contribution to its new
partnership with Americas Promise: The Alliance for Youth, a
nonprofit organization chaired by General Colin Powell. The
NEH-Americas Promise partnership is a joint effort to commit
resources addressing educational and other needs of the nations
young people.
Other important projects receiving funding are:
literacy projects, including a national project by Raleigh,
N.C.s Motheread, Inc. to incorporate Latino history and
literary traditions, and national expansion of Louisianas
Prime Time-Family Reading Project, which helps newly
literate parents and children bond through reading and
discussion of themes such as courage, greed and fairness;
museum exhibitions on George Washington, the rise of the
New South, the history of migrant farm-labor, and
technology in the 20th century.
National Public Radio series, marking the celebration of
the millennium, on how recorded sounds have shaped
20th-century American culture and can help envision the
nations future;
film documentaries on Woodrow Wilson, Ulysses S.
Grant, Zora Neale Hurston, George Wallace, Ralph
Ellison, Chinas Cultural Revolution, and the rise of modern
cardiovascular surgery based on a Depression-era
intellectual partnership between a black lab technician and
a white surgeon; and
family history project at Mesa College, a community
college in San Diego, that will gather family photographs
from area residents, exhibit the photographs and hold
discussions on how the local photos relate to national
historical events and traditions. (NEH will launch a national
family history initiative called My History is Americas
History later this fall.)
Programs and number of projects funded this round are:
Public programs (76) ($10,467,000)
film documentaries (27) ($5,298,000)
museum exhibitions (32) ($3,110,000)
library programs and special projects (12) ($1,769,000)
radio programs (5) ($290,000)
Education programs (87) ($7,179,000)
K-12 education
summer programs for schoolteachers (27) ($3,305,000)
Schools for a New Millennium (using computers to enhance K-12
learning) (14) ($439,600)
K-12 curriculum development (8) ($194,400)
Higher education
summer programs for higher education faculty (22) ($2,825,000)
higher education curriculum development (12) ($295,000)
faculty graduate study at historically black colleges (4) ($120,000)
NEH grants are awarded on a competitive basis. Throughout the year,
humanities experts outside of the Endowment assess all applications and
judge the quality and significance of each proposed project.
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