GRANTS
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
CHALLENGE GRANT
Appalachian State University has received a $400,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. However, the University must first obtain $1.2 million in private support for this project over the next three years to meet the grant's one-to-three matching requirement. These funds will create an Appalachian Studies Humanities Endowment through the University's Center for Appalachian Studies, the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, and the Appalachian Cultural Museum.
To find out how you can support the Appalachian Studies Humanities Endowment through the NEH Challenge Grant please contact Dr. Patricia D. Beaver (828-262-4089) or Vivien McMahon (828-262-4013)
For more information on giving go to: Donor Advancement Services
APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION
APPALACHIAN TEACHING PROJECT 2006-07
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CENTER FOR APPALACHIAN STUDIES AND SERVICES
EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
The Center for Appalachian Studies, as part of the The Consortium of Appalachian Centers and Institutes, received a $4000 grant to participate in a region-wide Appalachian Teaching Project. Each participating institution offers at least one course in which students will address the question, "How do we build on community assets to shape a positive future for Appalachia?" Working with local communities, faculty and students design varied approaches that best fit the goals of the courses, the students' initiatives, and the communities' needs. The Center offers ANT 5120, Appalachian Culture and Social Organization as the framework for this project. The focus has been the headwaters of the North Fork of the New River watershed and the complex issues addressed in this locale: class and elevation, sensitive ecologies, water quality, maintenance of traditions, political history (as a preipheral region of a border county), agriculture (including Christmas trees), Hispanic farm workers, small businesses, development pressures and gated communities. The students have interviewed more than 30 local residents and public officials; placed in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection Archives a number of historic photographs, church minutes, and store records; visited farms and homes; met with the Riverview Community Center, the Creston Volunteer Fire Department, the National Committee for the New River, and the offices of Extension Services to name a few. Four students have written MA theses based on research begun during this course, and a large number have presented papers at the Appalachian Studies Association annual meetings, and other public and professional venues.
ORAL HISTORIES AT JIMMY CARTER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
The Center for Appalachian studies received a $13,000 grant in 2006 from the Department of the Interior's National Park Service to conduct audio taped interviews and transcriptions from selected individuals with the objective of gathering institutional information about the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site that will assist the park in creating an Administrative History. Two graduate students are interviewing and video taping individuals during summer 2007.
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