Access/Enrichment Grants
Recognizing that the stimulus for innovative research and teaching, and for the organization of public events often emerge from ideas and experiences encountered outside the faculty’s usual scholarly societies and conferences, the Humanities Center supports several Access/Enrichment Grants each year. This program provides financial support to attend events that are not normally supported by the Faculty Travel Fund or Faculty Research Fund (those intended chiefly for those actively participating in a scholarly conference). Grants of up to $600 are available to fund such activities as interdisciplinary study days or visits to temporary exhibitions or special engagement performances sponsored by museums, libraries, arts presenters, and universities - programs not funded by other college resources. Funds may be used for travel and admission or registration, but not for material items (books, etc.). Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis. Only one grant per faculty member per year. The Center favors proposals for trips that anticipate, sustain, or develop themes from one of its other initiatives.
Access/Enrichment Grant Application

Course Innovation or Renovation Grants
Funding of up to $2,000 is available to help fashion a new course or renovate an existing one to augment its intellectual scope and appeal to students broadly interested in humanistic inquiry. Funds may be used to invite outside scholars or experts for visits or short (3-5 days) residencies involving public lectures, performances, exhibitions, class visits, and/or informal discussions with faculty and students; to procure relevant materials (slides, videos, books); to facilitate visits to libraries, collections, or other sites by the instructor; or to lend other aid to innovation.
Example of a funded Innovation or Renovation Grant
Ken Koltun-Fromm, Religion Department, supervised an independent study with a senior religion major to develop a new course: “Material Religion in America.” He and the student formulated reading lists relating to material religious practices in America (dress, food, art, music, sports, dance, ritual, media). The grant covered the purchase and copying of texts and articles. The introductory level course was offered in the spring 2006 semester and culminated in a Humanities Center funded symposium.
Note: Ken Koltun-Fromm’s interest in material religion developed out of his participation in a Faculty Seminar, “Culture, Value, Cultural Value” in 2002-03 led by Gus Stadler and will lead to a faculty seminar related to this subject in 2010.
Application Deadline: April 4, 2008
Course Innovation Application

Course Enhancement Grants
Funding of up to $500 is available to support class visits to libraries, collections, or other sites. The grants are for one-time exploratory class trips. The Center does not support ventures beyond the initial grant.
Application Deadline: April 4, 2008 for Fall of 2008 Courses; October 24, 2008 for Spring 2009 Courses.
Course Enhancement Application

Grant Application Form for Symposia, Talks or Readings (single or series), Performing Arts, Exhibitions, Film Screenings (single or series), Faculty Working Group, Summer Curricular Institutes, or Residency.