RIPON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A grant will help strengthen humanities throughout the southern Fox Valley region.
Ripon College received $150,000 Humanities Initiatives for Colleges and Universities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The grant will fund a three-year effort to reimagine humanistic study for the twenty-first century and support a plan to bolster humanities education by connecting faculty and students with cultural institutions across the southern Fox Valley region.
It’s expected to involve approximately 15 faculty members at Ripon and Marian, up to a dozen community partners at area arts and humanities organizations stretching from Baraboo to Oshkosh, and three distinguished visiting scholars from Princeton University, Stanford University, and Cornell University.
“The ultimate goal of this project is to build a robust, place-based eco-system of humanities education for our region,” Ripon College Professor of History Brian Bockelman said. “Our conversations with Marian University were an initial step toward articulating a vision of geographic uniqueness and attracting students to programs that offer both a universal and a particular education. The proposed project will be the first sustained attempt to understand the place, quite literally, of Ripon in the landscape of American colleges and universities.”
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