Special Guidelines for Teacher Seminars

Teacher Seminars

Humanities Iowa will consider proposals from colleges, universities, area education agencies and school systems for planning and conducting seminars in the humanities for elementary, secondary and post-secondary teachers. Special considerations for such grants are:

Academic credit, stipends, or both credit and stipends can be offered for such seminars
Primary emphasis must be given to humanities topics rather than curriculum design or teaching methods
Those who lecture or conduct workshops must be professional scholars in one or more humanities disciplines
Planning committees must include scholars, teachers and administrators as appropriate. The means and criteria for selecting the enrollees should be explained in the proposal.
The project director and principal humanities scholar may be the same person. Any payment to the project director shall be as an honorarium for the presentation only, not for administrative duties. Salary for administrative duties may be included as part of the cash contribution for cost-sharing.
A sponsor may calculate normal tuition for the seminar participants as a part of the cost sharing, provided that the tuition is waived for those in the seminar.
An agenda and list of texts to be used must be submitted as part of the proposal, subject to HI approval and/or adjustment.

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Humanities Iowa staff welcomes the opportunity to consult with applicants on proposals by telephone or e-mail.

Please contact Heather Plucar, Grant and Finance Director, at heather-plucar@uiowa.edu or at (319) 335-4150.

We will work with you to strengthen the application and answer questions.

If you would like to submit a draft proposal for critique, please do so several weeks before the deadline and we will help you refine the document before you submit a final version.

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All grant applications must be submitted online, through Submittable, our submissions manager.

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