LINGUIST List 9.1185

Wed Aug 26 1998

FYI: NEH Education Program Grant Opportunity

Editor for this issue: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar <aristarlinguistlist.org>

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1. Serventi, Jennifer, NEH Education Program Grant Opportunities

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1998 and 1999 DEADLINE DATES FOR 
NEH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION GRANTS

The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and
college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the
teaching and learning of history, literature, foreign languages and
cultures, and other areas of the humanities.

The Education Development and Demonstration Program offers the following
programs:

*National Education Projects* Includes materials development projects,
curricular development and demonstration projects, and dissemination
projects of national scope and significance Application deadline:
October 15, 1998 and October 15, 1999 Funding available: up to
$250,000 total for three years

*Humanities Focus Grants*

Propose a study of a humanities topic during the summer or academic
year with colleagues from your school building, school district,
college or university. Work with humanities scholars. Application
deadlines: April 15, 1999 and April 15, 2000 Funding available: up to
$25,000

For more information about these grant opportunities, or if you have
ideas about developing a project, please write or call:

Education Development and Demonstration 
Division of Research and Education Programs 
National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. 
Washington, D.C. 20506
Phone: 202/606-8380
FAX: 202/606-8394
e-mail: educationneh.gov
TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282

Guidelines and application forms may be retrieved from the NEH
World Wide Web site: http://www.neh.gov (under Applying for a
Grant, Application Forms)