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Year in Review NHA Board of Directors Year in Review NHA Board of Directors OFFICERS: NHA STAFF James Grossman President Daniel Fisher Executive Director, American Historical Association Project Director Teresa Mangum Vice President [email protected] Director, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa Beatrice Gurwitz Deputy Director Paula Krebs Treasurer [email protected] Executive Director, Modern Language Association Ben Vinson III Secretary Cecily Erin Hill Provost, Case Western Reserve University Director of Community Initiatives David Marshall Immediate Past President [email protected] Executive Vice Chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara Stephen Kidd Executive Director DIRECTORS: [email protected] Mary Sue Coleman Alexandra Klein President, Association of American Universities Communications Manager Joy Connolly [email protected] President, American Council of Learned Societies Emily McDonald Amy Ferrer Manager of Community Research Executive Director, American Philosophical Association [email protected] Lena Hill Scott Muir Dean of the College, Washington and Lee University Project Director Tracey Hucks [email protected] Provost and Dean of Faculty, Colgate University Younger Oliver Frederick Lawrence Secretary, Phi Beta Kappa Society Research Associate [email protected] Ed Liebow Executive Director, American Anthropological Association Kassandra Wahlstrom Esther Mackintosh Membership and Events Coordinator President, Federation of State Humanities Councils [email protected] Deanna Marcum Senior Advisor, Ithaka S+R Tania Munz Chief Program Officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Timothy Murray Director, Cornell Council for the Arts, Cornell University Lynn Pasquerella President, American Association of Colleges & Universities Andrew Rusnak Executive Director, Community College Humanities Association Rick Spees Executive Director, Council of American Overseas Research Centers Michael Witmore Director, Folger Shakespeare Library 2 | 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear NHA Members and Supporters, Representing the humanities is an audacious venture. Disagreements regarding the role, scope, and values of humanistic thinking in public life are fundamental to humanities disciplines themselves. If we didn’t disagree, we would be doing the humanities a disservice. All well and good from an academic perspective. Or even from the vantage point of The National public humanities spaces that have stimulated conversation and debate for Humanities Alliance centuries, from coffee houses to mechanics institutes, athenaeums, and libraries. speaks for this unruly The survival and flourishing of such spaces, however, requires institutions that landscape of publicly- promote and nourish humanistic activity. Multivocal public culture is one thing; effective institution building and sustainability can be quite another, requiring supported humanities organizations that can say to wielders of power and custodians of resources that in the United States. humanistic activity is worth the resources it requires—even if we can’t agree on a We promote everyone’s working definition of “humanistic activity.” work, across a broad The National Humanities Alliance speaks for this unruly landscape of publicly- political, interpretive, supported humanities in the United States. We promote everyone’s work, across a and aesthetic broad political, interpretive, and aesthetic spectrum, seeing our purpose less as spectrum, seeing our commentary than documentary. purpose less as We need your support to do this work. The accomplishments summarized in this commentary than Review require participants in Humanities Advocacy Day, institutional members, and documentary. individual donors. Write to your representatives or show up at their local offices. Participate in the cornucopia of activities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, colleges and universities, and state humanities councils. These resources are mobilized by energetic staff led by executive director Stephen Kidd. The NHA’s board of directors congratulates them on a year worth reviewing, with gratitude for the hard work required to speak with one effective voice about so many important issues. Sincerely, Jim Grossman President 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW | 3 LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dear NHA Members and Supporters, NHA’s network of members has grown in recent years, bringing more advocates to our work to promote the humanities on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill. Further, with the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon We are proud to Foundation for our NEH for All, Humanities for All, and Study the Humanities learn about your initiatives we have connected with even more humanities organizations and work, tell the institutions across the country. story of its As the following pages demonstrate, many of you are finding creative ways to impact, and recruit more students to the humanities and engage communities in humanities share your research, programming, and preservation. We are proud to learn about your work, knowledge to the tell the story of its impact, and share your knowledge to the benefit of the entire humanities community. benefit of the entire The year ended with especially good news for federal funding for the humanities as humanities Congress provided the biggest funding increase to the National Endowment for the Humanities in a decade, as well as more modest increases for many other community. humanities funding streams. Humanities advocates paved the way for these increases by joining us for Humanities Advocacy Day, contacting their elected officials from afar, and sharing their stories through Capitol Hill testimony, briefings, and our in-district meetings with Members of Congress. We look forward to working with you in the coming year! Sincerely, Stephen Kidd Executive Director 4 | 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW Nicole Hall introduced the Liberal Arts Advantage, a partnership between the career services office and the Humanities Network & Consortium at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Photo: Morrison Photography Making the Case on Campuses Over the past year, we expanded our efforts to support administrators and faculty in making the case for the value of the humanities on campuses. We have worked to better understand the challenges of recruiting students to the humanities and offered a variety of tools to confront these challenges. We have also enhanced the capacity of publicly engaged scholars to carry out their work and make the case for it. 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW | 5 MAKING THE CASE ON CAMPUSES Supporting Humanities Recruitment Efforts Over the past year, we expanded our efforts to support administrators and faculty in making the case for the value of the humanities on campuses. At the NHA Annual Meeting, we showcased successful initiatives to attract students to the humanities. Barbara Will, pictured here, shared strategies aimed at prospective and admitted students at Dartmouth College. Photo: Morrison Photography Humanities Recruitment Survey In 2019, we launched the Humanities Recruitment Survey to better understand challenges faculty and administrators are facing in recruiting students to the humanities and how they are addressing these challenges. Student concern “Through more engagement about job prospects 397 through clubs, speakers, was identified as the Responses and intentional recruiting, top challenge to the number of philosophy recruiting students to majors has gone from 20 to the humanities. 294 90 in five years.” Institutions —Appalachian State University Our Study the Humanities initiative supports faculty and administrators in making the case for studying the humanities as an undergraduate. Learn more at studythehumanities.org. 6 | 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW MAKING THE CASE ON CAMPUSES Documenting the Impact of Humanities Recruitment Efforts Through partnerships with faculty and administrators, we documented the impact of particular programs, courses, and assignments on perceptions of the humanities. “[The “There are many career paths for humanities majors— historian, social worker, teacher, humanities judge, senator, and many more. are] more Being a humanities major interesting than will prepare you for I thought.” these types of jobs.” 91% —Undergraduate student —Post-survey response, Vanguard University’s Humanities Summer Bridge Program of respondents after creating a profile for Clio, a local history app in Vanguard University’s humanities summer bridge program were “aware of how skills in the humanities are useful in jobs” following the program. PARTNER TESTIMONIAL “NHA’s customized pre- and post-program survey has helped us have qualitative and quantitative data that demonstrate the effectiveness of our new program, which is helpful in conversations with both internal and external stakeholders.” —Kristen McCabe Lashua, Vanguard University “I would say that [this assignment] definitely has opened my eyes up to what current trends are in the humanities, as well as the ever-expanding range of things scholars and people of the humanities do in the real world.” —Undergraduate student after creating a Photo: Courtesy of Clio profile for Clio, a local history app 2019 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE YEAR IN REVIEW | 7 MAKING THE CASE ON CAMPUSES Building Support for the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Campuses Through convenings and
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