National Endowment for the Humanities 1995 SUMMER INSTITUTES FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATORS ** ADVANCE COPY ** HOW TO APPLY TO INSTITUTES All those currently teaching in an American elementary, middle, or high school -- whether public, private, or church affiliated -- are eligible to apply for admission to summer institutes. Librarians and school administrators may also be eligible to apply for some institutes. Prospective participants should write or call the contact person listed for the institutes in which they are interested. There is no need to communicate directly with the Endowment as application is made to the institute and not to the NEH. For detailed information about application procedures, selection criteria, and subject matter of the institutes, please use the address and telephone number listed with each entry. The application deadline is March 15, 1995 unless otherwise indicated. Institutes dates may change and should be verified with the contact person listed. NATIONAL INSTITUTES The U.S. Constitution: American Political Ideas and Their Historical Context Center for Civic Education July 10 - August 4, 1995 Information: Duane Smith Center for Civic Education 5146 Douglas Fir Road Calabasas, CA 91302 818/591-9321; FAX 818/591-9330 Teaching Japanese in High School: Intensive Training for High School Teachers of Japanese Exchange: Japan (to be held at Bryn Mawr College) Early July through Early August (six-week program) Academic Director: Eleanor H. Jorden Information: Penny Corbett Exchange: Japan P.O. Box 1166 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1166 313/665-1820; FAX 313/665-5229 penny.corbett@um.cc.umich.edu The War in the Pacific: History and Memory Five Colleges, Inc. (Smith College) July 16 - August 9, 1995 Project Directors: Richard H. Minear and Kathleen Woods Masalski Information: Kathleen Woods Masalski Five Colleges Center for East Asian Studies 8 College Lane Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 413/585-3751; FAX 413/585-2075 kmasalski@smith.smith.edu Institute on Russian Language and Culture Friends School (to be held at Bryn Mawr College) June 25 - July 22, 1995 Information: Zita Dabars Friends School 5114 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21210 410/532-3257; FAX 410/532-3339 zitad@aol.com French Cultural Services/AATF/Indiana University Summer Institute for High School Teachers of French (Language of instruction: French) Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana: June 26 - July 7, 1995 Aurillac, France: July 8 - July 29, 1995 Project Director: Albert Valdman Information: Susan Emmerson Quinn Committee for Research and Development in Language Instruction (CREDLI) Ballantine Hall 604 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 812/855-0097; FAX 812/855-2386 emmerson@indiana.edu Summer Institute for School Teachers on Ancient Greek Religion Michigan State University (to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Museum) July 10 - August 4, 1995 Information: Nicholas Smith Department of Philosophy Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 517/355-4490 The African-American Roots of American Culture: The Harlem Renaissance National Alliance of Black School Educators (to be held at Washington University, St. Louis) July 9 - July 28, 1995 Project Directors: Gerald Early and Linda Riekes Information: Linda Riekes Law and Citizenship Education Unit 5183 Raymond Avenue St. Louis, MO 63113 314/361-5500 ext. 257 NEH/NCHE History Institute for Elementary Teachers: History and Imagination: Narrative and Biography of the 19th Century National Council for History Education (to be held at the University of California, San Diego) July 10 - August 4, 1995 Project Director: Theodore Rabb Information: Elaine Reed National Council for History Education 26915 Westwood Road Suite B-2 Westlake, OH 44145 216/835-1776 ae515@cleveland.freenet.edu Divining America: Religion and the National Culture National Humanities Center June 26 - July 14, 1995 Project Director: Richard Schramm Information: Summer Institute Office National Humanities Center 7 Alexander Drive P.O. Box 12256 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 919/549-0661 Native American Voices in American Literature Newberry Library June 26 - August 4, 1995 Information: Lawana Trout D'Arcy McNickle Center The Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street Chicago, IL 60610 312/943-9090 National Arabic Language and Culture Institute for Secondary School Teachers The Ohio State University July 10 - August 11, 1995 Project Director: Frederic Cadora Information: Lynne Fiala, Program Coordinator Department of Near Eastern, Judaic and Hellenic Languages and Literature 256 Cunz Hall 1841 Millikin Road Columbus, OH 43210 614/292-3129 fiala.2@osu.edu Mexico In Transition: A Summer Institute for the Combined Study of Mexican Literature, History, and Methodology (Language of instruction: primarily Spanish) University of Oregon June 24 - July 22, 1995 Information: David Curland Foreign Language Resource Center University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 503/346-4027; FAX 503/346-4067 dcurland@oregon.uoregon.edu Japanese Elementary Immersion Institute Portland Public Schools in conjunction with Pacific University Portland, Oregon: June 25 - July 21, 1995 Oregon and Japan: Summer 1996 Project Directors: Mary Bastiani and David Stout Information: Mary Bastiani Portland School District #1 P.O. Box 3107 Portland, OR 97208-3107 503/249-2000 ext. 4392 bastiani@aol.com david_stout@unixmail.pacificu.edu The Worlds of the Renaissance Renaissance Society of America (to be held in New York City) July 9 - August 4, 1995 Information: Albert Rabil, Jr. Summer Institute 324 Post Avenue #9H Westbury, NY 11590 516/997-6917; FAX 516/997-7694 National Institute for Teaching Shakespeare Shakespeare & Company, The Mount June 28 - July 25, 1995 Application deadline: March 1, 1995 Project Director: Kevin Coleman Information: Lezlie Lee Shakespeare and Company The Mount Lenox, MA 01240 413/637-1199 ext. 103; FAX 413/637-4274 The American West: An Institute for Secondary History and Literature Teachers Social Science Education Consortium July 10 - August 4, 1995 Information: James Giese Social Science Education Consortium 3300 Mitchell Lane, Suite 240 Boulder, CO 80301 303/492-8154; FAX 303/449-3925 Shakespeare in Ashland: Teaching from Performance Southern Oregon State College July 2 - July 28, 1995 Project Director: Alan Armstrong Information: Emily Hexter Center for Shakespeare Studies Southern Oregon State College Ashland, OR 97520 503/552-6905 Alien Texts/New Responses: Writing by and about Women in the Renaissance Virginia Commonwealth University July 2 - July 28, 1995 Information: Boyd Berry English Department P.O. Box 842005 Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA 23284-2005 804/828-1331 bberry@hibbs.vcu.edu SPECIAL NATIONAL PROGRAM Upgrading Cultural Competency and Listening and Speaking Skills of Secondary School Teachers of Russian Ohio State University Dates: see description below Application Deadline: December 10, 1994 This is a telephone-assisted, self-paced program for secondary school teachers of Russian to refresh their listening and speaking skills. It will involve home study, course materials, and telephone tutoring from January 8 to August 30, 1995. There will also be a summer institute (July 23-28, 1996) on the integration of culture and the humanities with classroom Russian language instruction. Information: Leon Twarog Slavic Department 232 Cunz Hall Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 614/292-6733 REGIONAL INSTITUTES Confucian Classics and Cultural Values The American Forum, Inc. (to be held at the University of Vermont) July 5 - August 2, 1995 Region: New England, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Project Director: Hazel Greenburg Information: Liz Mahoney The American Forum, Inc. 120 Wall Street, Suite 2600 New York, NY 10005 212/742-8232 Legends of Mexico: Language and Culture Immersion Experience for Teachers of Spanish, Grades K-8 University of Cincinnati June 19 - July 22, 1995 (to be held in Cincinnati and Puebla, Mexico) Region: Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio Information: Susan Bacon Department of Romance Languages University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0377 513/556-1840 susan.bacon@uc.edu Growing Up American 1995: An Institute on Initiation Literature for Elementary School Educators College of St. Scholastica June 12 - June 30, 1995 Application deadline: February 13, 1995 Region: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin Information: Leo Hertzel John Schifsky Department of Languages and Literature College of St. Scholastica 1200 Kenwood Avenue Duluth, MN 55811 218/723-5901 or 218/723-6096; FAX 218/723-6290 jschifsk@css1.css.edu Taking a Stand in History: The Legal Status of Southern Women Furman University June 26 - July 14, 1995 Region: Contiguous parts of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee Project Directors: Christine Compston and Marian Strobel Information: Marian Strobel Department of History Furman University Greenville, SC 29613 803/294-3072 University of Iowa Department of Russian Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education (Language of instruction: Russian) University of Iowa June 24 - August 4, 1995 Region: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin Information: Ray Parrott Russian Department 673 Phillips Hall University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 319/335-0170 aatseel@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu People, Prairies, and Plains: A Summer Institute for K-12 Social Studies and Science Teachers on The Historical Role of People in the Environment Kansas State University July 9 - August 4, 1995 Region: Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma Information: James Sherow Department of History 208 Eisenhower Hall Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506 913/532-0375 jsherow@ksu.ksu.edu Project Pluma: Writing through Content in the 4th-12th Grade Spanish Class (Language of instruction: Spanish) Teachers College, Columbia University July 5 - August 7, 1995 Region: New York metropolitan area, and within 100 miles of New York, including areas of Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Information: Mari Haas Institute for Urban and Minority Education Teachers College, Columbia University 525 West 120th Street, Box 201 New York, NY 10027 212/678-3817; FAX 212/678-3085 mbh14@columbia.edu The Transformation of New England Culture and Character, 1790-1840 Old Sturbridge Village July 10 - July 28, 1995 Region: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Eastern New York Information: Peter S. O'Connell Old Sturbridge Village 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road Sturbridge, MA 01566-1198 508/347-3362, ext. 285 STATE INSTITUTES A brochure listing institutes that serve applicants from more limited geographic areas will be available after January 1, 1995. Please call or write our office to receive this brochure. INDEPENDENT STUDY OPPORTUNITIES NEH Fellowship Program for Foreign Language Teachers K-12 Six weeks of independent study abroad. Application deadline: October 31 for following summer Information: NEH Fellowship Program for FL Teachers K-12 Connecticut College 270 Mohegan Avenue New London, CT 06320-4196 203/439-2282 Summer Fellowships for Humanities Teachers and Librarians K-12 Six weeks of independent study. Application deadline: January 9 for following summer Information: Council for Basic Education Attention: ISH 95-I P.O. Box 135 Ashton, MD 20861 Summer Fellowships for Principals K-12 Four weeks of independent study. Application deadline: January 9 for following summer Information: Council for Basic Education Attention: ISH 94-P P.O. Box 135 Ashton, MD 20861 For general information about other division grant opportunities, contact the Division of Education Programs, Room 302, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20506, or call 202/606-8377. For information about other Endowment programs, write to the Office of Publications and Public Affairs, Room 406 at the same address, or call 202/606-8400. EEO Statement Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. For further information, write to the Equal Opportunity Employment Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20506. TDD 202/606-8282 (this is a special Telephone Device for the Deaf).