Education
June 23, 2022
Supported by a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Portland professors Dr. Molly Hiro and Dr. Jen McDaneld have embarked on a mission to change the way students connect with the community through engaged study in the humanities.
“Core Humanities: Integration through Curriculum, Campus, and Community” is a project developed by Hiro, McDaneld and UP’s Public Research Fellows. The grant will fund core exploration courses and the development of an Engaged Humanities Hub to promote long-term advancement of the humanities across academic disciplines and beyond the campus.
“A more engaged approach will harness the power of the humanities by connecting them to our communities and our daily lives in ways that are more visible to students, parents, faculty and the public," McDaneld said. “The team also plans to promote connections between traditional humanities fields and other academic disciplines.”
Across the grant year, Hiro and McDaneld will:
“The program that Jen and I have been building over the past three years has attracted a lot of interest from students and faculty,” Hiro said. “This demonstrates real investment in the kinds of thinking, conversations and experiences that the engaged humanities can provide our community.”
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded more than $33 million in grants for 245 humanities projects across the country. Of the five NEH awards in the state of Oregon, the University of Portland and the University of Oregon received the largest funding for programs in the “Human Connections Planning Grants” category.
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