The Community
College Humanities Association
(CCHA) will carry out a two-year national education project entitled "Advancing the
Humanities through Technology at Community Colleges" to
the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH). The project will provide a set of activities
designed to allow teams from sixteen community colleges to develop and
carry out action plans for integrating technology and the newest approaches
to the study of the humanities into their humanities programs. The project
will also furnish the participating community colleges with technology
models, humanities materials, pedagogical approaches and support mentors
to aide in the implementation of their action plans. These plans, along
with the examples presented by visiting scholars and presenting mentors
at a national conference, will serve as models for other community colleges
across the nation.
The project's main components will include:
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A national conference to be held at George
Mason University, 2-5 December 1999.
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Mentoring services which will enable sixteen
competitively-selected, two-year colleges (represented by three-member
teams) to work intensively at the national conference and in the following
year to implement an action plan designed to integrate an innovative technology
model into the humanities programs at their school.
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A web site with online discussion to provide
information to all participants in the project and to other interested
community college faculty and staff and to allow an ongoing discussion
devoted to the impact of technology on humanities education at community
colleges.
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Publication and dissemination of the technology
models presented at the conference and the final reports of the community
college teams.
Project staff will include:
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Charles Evans, Associate Professor of History
at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC), who will serve as project
director.
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David A. Berry, Executive Director of the
Community College Humanities Association, who will serve as project manager.
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Roy Rosenzweig, Professor of History and Director
of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, who
will serve as project senior scholar.
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