Thiel College receives $59k grant to bolster humanities courses

Thiel College has received a grant worth $59,857 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to help integrate digital tools for general education courses in English, history and philosophy.

This grant is part of a project spearheaded by Thiel history professor and department chair David Buck and faculty members from across the college's English, history and philosophy departments.

"Our goal is to help students become more engaged and informed digital citizens by grounding digital learning in the values and practices of the humanities," Buck said.

Buck is the grant director for the project "Integrating the Digital into Thiel College's Humanities,"  which also sees collaboration from four other Thiel professors.

The project seeks to expand access to digital tools for students at the school while educating them about digital and informational literacy and fostering a dialogue about digital skillsets in the humanities campus-wide.

NEH has funded 68 other projects with a total of $9.55 million awarded to universities such as John Hopkins University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Michigan State University.

"The grants awarded today reflect the breadth and vitality of scholarship, preservation, and public programs across the humanities," said NEH Acting Chairman Michael McDonald.

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