Schrum and Sleeter unpacking the history of higher education in the United States
2023-11-27
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Kelly Schrum, Professor, Higher Education Program; Affiliated Faculty, History and Art History, and Nathan Sleeter, Research Assistant Professor, History and Art History, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), received $220,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the project: "Unpacking the History of Higher Education in the United States."
This funding began in Oct. 2023 and will end in late Dec. 2024.
The history of higher education is central to understanding its present and future, especially for students in Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) programs who will lead colleges and universities for decades to come. Project Co-Directors, Dr. Kelly Schrum (Higher Education Program), and Dr. Nate Sleeter (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media) at George Mason University, will offer a four-week institute, Unpacking the History of Higher Education in the United States, in summer 2024, designed to improve history of higher education courses nationally and to deepen humanities engagement among future higher education leaders. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), this institute will enable participants to engage deeply with history content and history as a discipline. Participants will explore topics throughout the history of higher education and create digital teaching resources. The project will result in a robust Open Educational Resource (OER) on the history of higher education designed to facilitate teaching nationwide. This project grew out of a collaboration funded by 4-VA in 2020 and again in 2021.
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