AGENCY: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

PROGRAM: Teaching Development Fellowships

OBJECTIVES: This program provides funding to support college and university teachers pursuing research aimed specifically at improving their undergraduate teaching. The program has three broad goals: 1) to improve the quality of humanities education in the United States; 2) to strengthen the link between research and teaching in the humanities; and 3) to foster excellence in undergraduate instruction.

Projects must improve an existing undergraduate course that has been taught in at least three different terms and will continue to be taught by the applicant. Research undertaken as a part of the project may involve engaging with fundamental texts or sources, exploring related subjects or academic disciplines, or cultivating neglected areas of learning. Projects may entail the acquisition of new language or digital skills as a means to performing the proposed research. Projects must be directed primarily towards course improvement, not scholarly publication.

DEADLINE: October 1, 2009

FUNDING INFORMATION: Teaching Development Fellowships cover periods lasting from three to five months and carry stipends of $4,200 per month. The maximum stipend is $21,000 for a five-month award period.

AGENCY CONTACT:
Division of Research
Room 318
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8200
Email: TDFellowships@neh.gov
Web: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/TD_Fellowships.html

REMARKS: Applications must be submitted electronically using the Grants.gov system. Instructions and forms are available on the Grants.Gov website (http://www.grants.gov). Additional information about Grants.gov for BU Investigators can be obtained on the OSP website at: http://www.bu.edu/osp/pdf/Grantsgovinfo.pdf. Please contact the OSP Assistant Director assigned to your school or department as soon as possible to coordinate submission through the Grants.gov system.

Complete program guidelines and application material may be obtained from the web site listed above or from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP). Please distribute this notice to any faculty or staff members who might be interested in the information. For more information, please contact the OSP at X3-4365 orospinfo@bu.edu, or visit the OSP web site athttp://www.bu.edu/osp.