Documenting Impact
Documenting Impact: Public Humanities Lab at Middlebury College
Posted OnAugust 2, 2022 byBy Younger Oliver In 2021, the Axinn Center for the Humanities at Middlebury College received a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation to launch their Public Humanities Lab (PHL) initiative. Led by Axinn Center co-directors Febe Armanios and Marion Wells, the initiative offers courses that integrate humanities skills, content, and expertise into public facing projects, often done…Read More…
Documenting Impact: GWU-Spelman East Asia Partnership
Posted OnNovember 10, 2021 byBy Younger Oliver As part of our efforts to document the impact of public humanities initiatives across higher education, we partnered with the East Asia National Resource Center (EANRC) at The George Washington University (GW) to conduct a focus group with undergraduate students participating in its professional development program. Acting on its mandate as a Title VI Center to…Read More…
New Surveys in the Humanities Impact Survey Toolkit
Posted OnApril 22, 2021 byBy Cecily Hill Since 2017, the NEH for All team has documented and communicated the impact of National Endowment for the Humanities funding, which has included working with project directors to survey ongoing NEH-funded projects. NHA’s Humanities Impact Survey Toolkit was developed from these efforts. The Humanities Impact Survey Toolkit includes tips for evaluating the public impact of humanities programs in…Read More…
Workshopping Questions to Evaluate Your Humanities Program
Posted OnNovember 24, 2020 byBy Cecily Hill At the Virtual National Humanities Conference, which took place earlier this month, Emily McDonald and I conducted a workshop on evaluating the impact of humanities programming. The workshop aimed to introduce participants to our Impact Survey Toolkit, as well as to offer tips about how to write stronger questions for surveys they…Read More…
Documenting Impact: Humanities Research for the Public Good Grants
Posted OnNovember 17, 2020 byBy Younger Oliver In April 2020, the Humanities for All team partnered with the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) to conduct focus groups with students who had participated in publicly engaged projects funded by the CIC’s Humanities Research for the Public Good (HRPG) grants. We held five focus groups with 20 students from 15 institutions who generously shared their…Read More…
Storytelling with Data during COVID-19
Posted OnSeptember 28, 2020 byBy Emily McDonald and Younger Oliver Advocacy on behalf of our cultural institutions is as crucial now as ever. The COVID-19 crisis has cast a shadow of deep uncertainty on all areas of American life, and how far these social and economic impacts may reach is still very much unknown. Over the past six months,…Read More…
Documenting Impact: Wayne State Humanities Clinic
Posted OnSeptember 8, 2020 byBy Younger Oliver This summer, we launched the Humanities for All blog to showcase publicly engaged humanities initiatives in the words of the faculty, staff, students, and community partners directly involved in the projects. Our September 8 post by Lillian Wilson focuses on the Wayne State Humanities Clinic, an innovative graduate internship program at Wayne State University in…Read More…
Introducing our Impact Survey Toolkit
Posted OnMay 13, 2020 byBy Cecily Hill After two years of working with NEH grantees to document the impact of their programs, it is a delight to introduce one product of this effort—Documenting the Impact of Your Humanities Program: A Toolkit. Since 2018, we’ve worked with twenty-nine NEH funded programs to tell the story of their impact through surveys….Read More…
NEH Impact: Fostering Community Pride Through the Humanities
Posted OnJanuary 28, 2020 byBy Emily McDonald The Mastheads, a public humanities organization in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was founded in 2016 with a goal of connecting Pittsfield residents to the literary heritage of the region, cultivating pride in place, and supporting the production of new creative work. This mission grew out of the challenges Pittsfield has faced since General Electric,…Read More…