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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
20081113-AQ
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Sep 11, 2008
Creation Date:
Sep 11, 2008
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Nov 13, 2008
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Nov 13, 2008
Archive Date:
Dec 13, 2008
Funding Instrument Type:
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
$25,000
Award Floor:
$0
CFDA Number(s):
45.163
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Promotion of the Humanities_Professional Development
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
State governments
City or township governments
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Agency Name
National Endowment for the Humanities
Description
The purpose of the Enduring Questions grant program is to encourage faculty and students at the undergraduate level to grapple with the most fundamental concerns of the humanities, and to join together in deep, sustained programs of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day. Enduring questions are, to an overarching degree, pre-disciplinary. They are questions to which no discipline or field or profession can lay an exclusive claim. Enduring questions can be tackled by reflective individuals regardless of their chosen vocations, areas of expertise, or personal backgrounds. They are questions that have more than one plausible or interesting answer. They have long held interest for young people, and they allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations. The Enduring Questions grant program will help promote such dialogue in today’s undergraduate environment. What are these enduring questions? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate.
What is the good life?
What is justice? Mercy?
What is freedom? Happiness?
What is friendship?
What is dignity?
Is there a human nature, and, if so, what is it?
What are the limits of scientific understanding?
What is the relationship between humans and the natural world?
Is there such a thing as right and wrong? Good and evil?
What is good government?
What are the origins of the modern world?
What is liberal education?
The Enduring Questions grant program will support new humanities courses at the undergraduate level: their design and preparation, teaching, and assessment, as well as ancillary activities that enhance faculty-student intellectual community. Courses may be taught by faculty from any department or discipline in the humanities or by faculty outside the humanities (e.g., astronomy, biology, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology), provided humanities sources are central to the course.
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electronically, please contact:
Division of Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
Room 302
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20506
202-606-8380
education@neh.gov
Synopsis Modification History
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