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Today's webinar is an opportunity to find out more about the program and to ask questions. The Notice of Funding Opportunity is posted and applications can now be submitted. 00:00:42.050 --> 00:00:54.840 Macklem, Mary The deadline is April 12th, 2023 and notifications will be made in late December 2023. Projects can begin as soon as January 1st, 2024 or later. 00:00:55.690 --> 00:01:13.290 Macklem, Mary A quick introduction before we get started. I'm Mary Macklem. I'm a program officer in the NEH Division of Research programs, and I am the team lead for the three Awards for Faculty programs, for Hispanic Serving Institutions, historically black colleges and universities, and tribal colleges and universities. 00:01:14.420 --> 00:01:45.510 Macklem, Mary I am a musicologist by training. I've been at NEH for just over 10 years, and I am joined here by three of my colleagues. Thank you all so much for attending and helping to answer questions today. Jacob Lusk is the program analyst for the program, and Al-Nazir Fontenot and Dannal Perry are both grants management specialist at NEH and I will pass the microphone to each of them to say a word of introduction and a brief note about how they work with the program at NEH. 00:01:45.770 --> 00:01:46.300 Macklem, Mary Jacob? 00:01:47.770 --> 00:01:54.920 Lusk, Jacob Hi everyone. My name is Jacob Lusk. I've been at NEH for about four years now. And I work closely with the Awards for Faculty program with Mary. 00:01:55.860 --> 00:02:08.660 Lusk, Jacob If you e-mail our box, I'll often be one of the people responding to your messages and if you're awarded in this program, I'll be one of the foremost people working with you on your grant. 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:39.130 Lusk, Jacob So today, throughout the webinar I'm going to be monitoring the chat feature in teams, so if you have any questions as we go along, I'll try to answer them as I can. There's going to be a Q&A session at the end of the presentation. So, if you ask a question during the webinar that might be good for everyone to to hear an answer to, we may answer it verbally there at the end. Thanks so much for being here and 00:02:39.250 --> 00:02:42.330 Lusk, Jacob looking forward to working with you all in the future. Thanks. 00:02:43.340 --> 00:02:45.790 Macklem, Mary Thank you, Jacob. How about Al-Nasir? 00:02:48.400 --> 00:03:05.220 Fontenot, Al-Nasir Hello, my name is Al-Nasir. I've been working with NEH for about 3 years as a grants management specialist. I work for the Office of Grants Management where we work in managing these awards. So any questions related to the acceptance forms or 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:20.670 Fontenot, Al-Nasir compliance, submitting reports that kind of a thing--we are who responds to those kinds of questions and help on the administrative side of the award. So that is myself and Dannal. And with that, I'll pass it back to Mary. 00:03:22.100 --> 00:03:24.090 Macklem, Mary Great. And Dannal, would you like to say hello? 00:03:26.920 --> 00:03:28.790 Macklem, Mary OK. 00:03:28.200 --> 00:03:33.230 Perry, Dannal I'm sorry. I'm Dannal. I do exactly what Al-Nasir does. 00:03:34.880 --> 00:04:04.770 Macklem, Mary Thank you so much. Yes, so we have our e-mail here for the program. If you write to that e-mail as Jacob indicated, he will see those emails, and we will see those emails and be able to pass them on to Al-Nasir or Dannal. If it's a question that they're more equipped to handle, you can also find our contact information for this program in the Notice of Funding Opportunities. So, we're always happy to help answer questions or find answers for you. 00:04:04.930 --> 00:04:12.440 Macklem, Mary So please don't hesitate to reach out to us. And with that, let's move to the next slide. 00:04:45.230 --> 00:05:16.680 Macklem, Mary As I talk, as Jacob indicated, please feel free to type in questions to the chat. We will have a question and answer period where we will all be talking and available to answer your questions at the end of the presentation. You will also see a link on this screen for the program page for the Awards for Faculty at HSIs program and I will be referring to it throughout. You have lots of resources on there. In fact, everything I talk about today is. 00:06:33.460 --> 00:06:40.920 Macklem, Mary on your NEH project or in some combination, I will say more about those details later in the presentation. 00:07:25.580 --> 00:07:42.940 Macklem, Mary The full time equivalent. As I mentioned, you can opt to work part time. The award amount is $5000 per full-time month of work and up to $60,000, and that is modified if you are taking a working less than full time on the award. 00:07:45.070 --> 00:08:18.120 Macklem, Mary So let's look at eligibility requirements for the program. All full time, part-time, adjunct and retired faculty or staff who are affiliated with a Hispanic Serving Institution are eligible. In the Notice of Funding Opportunity, you can find out more details about this in sections C. NEH suggests that you check with staff at your institution to determine whether your university or college is eligible this year and meets the criteria for a Hispanic Serving Institution. 00:08:18.670 --> 00:08:36.740 Macklem, Mary We go by this as defined and determined by the US Department of Education. This determination process by the Department of Education is a yearly process. So, each year you need to check. NEH goes by the status of your institution at the time of application. 00:08:37.640 --> 00:08:39.850 Macklem, Mary So the deadline, April 12th, 00:08:40.450 --> 00:08:45.660 Macklem, Mary and institutions must apply for eligibility determinations. 00:09:17.770 --> 00:09:37.180 Macklem, Mary Are some sort of degree. Then you would have to wait until you're finished with that. The only caveat is that, if you have satisfied all your requirements for the degree, so you've finished your thesis or you've finished all the work that you need to do, and you're just waiting for the conferral of the degree. 00:10:37.560 --> 00:11:11.210 Macklem, Mary When you look at it, you will see on the bottom they've changed the way it looks this year a little bit. So on the bottom you have a range of institutional types. So, you would want to click on HSI and then you would want to look in column J to see if there is a “yes” and that would mean that you are eligible. But I just like to reiterate that we urge you to talk with people at your institution who can also advise you on this and you can also reach out to the Department of Education if you have any questions about that. 00:11:11.690 --> 00:11:17.030 Macklem, Mary Again, the Notice of Funding Opportunity Section C talks more about this as well. 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:49.300 Macklem, Mary So, let's take a little bit of a step back. I talked about the goals and the scope of the Awards for Faculty program. But before we go too much further, I wanted to give you a little bit more context about how NEH defines the humanities. Our definition begins with the agency’s founding legislation. The NEH was created by Congress in 1965, along with NEA. The humanities fields on this slide come from the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities. 00:11:49.390 --> 00:12:19.660 Macklem, Mary Act of 1965. It reads as follows, so it mentions a range of humanities fields, including those listed: “The term humanities includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following language. Both modern and classical linguistics, literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics, the history, criticism and theory of the arts. Those aspects of social sciences, 00:12:19.770 --> 00:12:23.340 Macklem, Mary which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods.” 00:12:24.310 --> 00:12:43.650 Macklem, Mary Umm. And so on. So we go from this definition. It's a very capacious we have a very capacious understanding of the humanities, and if you have questions whether your project falls within the humanities, by all means feel free to reach out to us. And we're happy to talk with you and learn more about your ideas. 00:12:46.180 --> 00:13:12.930 Macklem, Mary So looking back again, more specifically at the Awards for Faculty at HSIs Program, I wanted to look at project types. As I mentioned on the beginning slides, a key feature of this program is flexibility in both project types and work plans. So here you can see a listing of four kind of categories of project types that you could pursue. 00:13:13.870 --> 00:13:24.980 Macklem, Mary If you'll notice, all of these rely on humanities research, so research in the, you know, in the areas described in the preceding slide-- literature, philosophy, history and so on. 00:13:25.690 --> 00:13:26.640 Macklem, Mary 00:13:27.780 --> 00:13:50.950 Macklem, Mary However, the humanities research can support a variety of project goals and outcomes. Like the NEH fellowships program, with which some of you may be familiar, this program supports research in primary and secondary materials leading to the development of books, peer-reviewed articles, digital materials, translations with annotations and other scholarly resources. 00:13:51.850 --> 00:14:03.730 Macklem, Mary However, in addition to those types of projects, this program can support institutional or community goals or interests and draw on institutional or community archival collections, for example. 00:14:04.530 --> 00:14:24.080 Macklem, Mary Or projects can improve an existing undergraduate course revision, including the development of humanities resources-- for example, oral histories or identification and preparation of previously unavailable primary sources, or newly compiled historical or literary collections. 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:31.530 Macklem, Mary Please note that this program does not support development of new courses. The course must have been taught previously. 00:14:32.170 --> 00:14:38.180 Macklem, Mary And also only undergraduate course revisions, not graduate, can be supported through this program. 00:14:39.060 --> 00:14:45.790 Macklem, Mary Lastly, your humanities research could lead to digital or web-based products intended to supplement 00:14:46.470 --> 00:14:50.670 Macklem, Mary one of the types above. So, a course revision or a publication project. 00:14:51.880 --> 00:15:22.610 Macklem, Mary A faculty or staff member might collect oral histories to develop scholarly tools like language dictionaries or databases, or to contribute to an undergraduate course revision. Or a faculty or staff member might use the unique archives of your university for a project with an institutional goal or interest. In recent competitions, for example, the program funded a course revision project on Spanish place names in Colorado. Another example was a scholar working on 00:15:22.710 --> 00:15:26.070 Macklem, Mary research and supporting materials for an art exhibition on her campus. 00:15:26.800 --> 00:15:30.990 Macklem, Mary And the program has funded translation projects as well as book projects. 00:15:32.140 --> 00:15:47.550 Macklem, Mary So, I would just say that if you are unsure if your project this program, by all means, we encourage you once again to reach out to us at our number there, or you can e-mail to us, and we will get back to you 00:15:48.680 --> 00:15:49.970 Macklem, Mary and be happy to talk to you. 00:15:52.100 --> 00:16:18.310 Macklem, Mary So to sum up: Some of the typical activities and products that applicants want to do and can be supported through this program, a wide range of methods and activities can be supported, including archival research in local or distant repositories, collections of oral histories and ethnography. You might be working from a home or university office on editing, writing, and revision. 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:48.990 Macklem, Mary And then to look at the other side of this screen, the print and digital products, the outcome of award support: These are the what we typically would see-- undergraduate course revisions could result, as could peer-reviewed articles, monographs, translations, editions and other interpretive tools. For course revision projects, you might devise a way to disseminate the project more broadly, whether for other course sections on campus or to other universities. 00:16:49.730 --> 00:17:07.960 Macklem, Mary And a project centered on community or institutional goals might result in other types of print or digital materials. One example might be research and writing of an exhibition catalog for an art or historical exhibit on campus. In fact, that was an example that we just saw in our recent round of awards. 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:31.290 Macklem, Mary So to give you an idea of some projects that have been funded by this program, here are three recent books whose authors received support through this program. The first is authored by Kristina Richardson, previously of Queens College, CUNY, and Professor Richardson received 12 months of full time support for the project. 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:38.170 Macklem, Mary She researched and wrote a book about Roma language and culture in the pre modern Middle East. 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:55.030 Macklem, Mary The second project is an anthropological study of two Brazilian indigenous leaders, whose lives spanned the 20th century, and large scale state projects in Amazonia. 00:17:55.940 --> 00:18:02.980 Macklem, Mary And the recipient, Suzanne Oakdale, is a professor at University of New Mexico; she received seven months of full-time support. 00:18:03.710 --> 00:18:21.710 Macklem, Mary And the last project is by Angela Vergara at California State, Los Angeles, and Professor Vergara used the award to complete a book on the history of unemployment in Chile, from the Great Depression through the 1980s. And she received 12 months of full-time support. 00:18:23.030 --> 00:18:52.560 Macklem, Mary Given the flexibility of the project types funded in the program, I have not pictured here but want to just reiterate the possibility of humanities research leading to other types of products, not only book products. As I mentioned, we've supported a number of projects leading to undergraduate course revisions, peer-reviewed articles and projects supporting institutional or community goals. If you are interested to see the full range of awards made through this program. 00:18:52.660 --> 00:19:01.370 Macklem, Mary There is a link on the program web page for recently funded projects and you'll see everything that's been funded through this program. 00:19:03.790 --> 00:19:30.660 Macklem, Mary So now let's just take a look at some of the deadlines and dates this year. NEH staff will read and respond to draft narrative and work plans, so I want to bring that to your attention. That's coming up on February 8th. These are optional. Staff will provide you with written feedback, and we endeavor to get these back to you, you know, 7 to 10 days before the formal program deadline in April. 00:19:31.910 --> 00:19:36.730 Macklem, Mary As I mentioned, these are optional, but applicants in the past have found them helpful. 00:19:37.520 --> 00:19:52.330 Macklem, Mary If you choose to do that, you should do your best to prepare a narrative and work plan ing to how these are described in the Notice of Funding Opportunity, and you can find full instructions about the drafts in section D4. 00:19:53.450 --> 00:20:22.800 Macklem, Mary The program deadline is April 12th, 2023, so at that deadline you'd need to have everything ready and submit it to the Grants.gov portal. I'll talk more about that in a minute, and your notification this year will be in December. That's when you would learn that you were or were not funded December 2023. You could start as early as January 1st, 2024 and as late as September 1st, 2025. 00:20:29.260 --> 00:20:57.760 Macklem, Mary So here's the slide with the criteria for the program. These criteria appear in section E1 of the Notice of Funding Opportunity, and we advise you to keep these prominently in mind when you're writing your proposal. Everything NEH receives goes to peer reviewers who are external to NEH to read and review, and the peer reviewers use these five criteria and only these. 00:20:59.550 --> 00:21:17.620 Macklem, Mary The first criterion pertains to the intellectual significance of your project for the humanities, and so you should tell your reader about your project, what it's about, and why it's important, how it will change or add to or revise what's understood in your area. 00:21:18.420 --> 00:21:33.250 Macklem, Mary And you should write for a humanities generalist because lots of people will potentially read your materials. Therefore, you should also situate the project within the broader context of humanities research and knowledge. 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:56.560 Macklem, Mary The second criterion considers the quality of the conception, definition, organization, and description of your project, as well as your clarity of expression. Peer reviewers generally find a well written, clear application is a predictor of the quality of the planned publication. So writing a good abstract and narrative is important. 00:21:58.770 --> 00:22:00.520 Macklem, Mary Moving on to the third 00:22:00.610 --> 00:22:21.030 Macklem, Mary criterion, your plan of work, and I will say a little bit more about a work plan in a moment. But this is what do you propose to do during the award period? And it should clearly state how much support, how much time you are requesting and whether that's part- or full -time support. 00:22:43.820 --> 00:22:51.290 Macklem, Mary And then the last criterion considers the likelihood that the project will be completed, as well as your dissemination and access plans. 00:22:52.490 --> 00:23:20.290 Macklem, Mary So if you plan to publish a book or an article, you can mention what venues you might try. You may not know yet which publisher or which journal you are going to go for, but you can still indicate to peer reviewers if you have an idea of where you might look to publish. If you are doing a course revision, there might be other kinds of you know, when will you offer that course next and how will the materials be utilized? 00:23:23.100 --> 00:23:52.910 Macklem, Mary So let's shift into the area about what do you need to prepare in order to apply for this program? And I have taken a screenshot out of the Notice of Funding Opportunity of all of the pieces of an application for this program. And as you'll see from this table, there are four columns. Some of these are grants.gov forms. These are digitally completed in grants.gov. 00:23:53.090 --> 00:24:07.560 Macklem, Mary And some are attachments that you would write, you know, when you're ready to do that, and then you need to save these as a PDF and include it in your application materials. 00:24:08.650 --> 00:24:38.620 Macklem, Mary It tells you how to name your files. It tells you in the designation column if this is a required document or if it's recommended at the time of application, or if it is conditionally required. And I would pay special attention to those aspects because if it is required, you absolutely need to submit that at the time of application. If you do not submit-- for example, your resume, you forget-- 00:24:40.040 --> 00:24:56.170 Macklem, Mary [Your application] will be considered incomplete and it will not go through the review process. So it's very important to see if something is required or if it is not required. So also don't submit things that are not asked for. 00:24:57.050 --> 00:25:16.730 Macklem, Mary Because those are all reasons that your application might be rejected and might not go through review. And then the other column here are page limits. These are also very important to abide by. You'll see the word “mandatory” this year is new. We use the word mandatory--so your narrative can be only three pages. No more. 00:25:17.910 --> 00:25:25.560 Macklem, Mary If you go over the three pages, that can lead to your application also being considered nonresponsive, and it would be. 00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:56.470 Macklem, Mary rejected. So, those are details that are really important to be aware of. And I just want to also tell you that if you're wondering, what do these things include, the narrative, the work plan and so on. We do have narrative samples up on the program resource page, and I would encourage you to look at those if you find that useful. We did put four new ones up this year. And there are a range of humanities fields for you to look at. 00:25:56.560 --> 00:26:18.310 Macklem, Mary These are actual applications that were funded; some of those were written before the formatting was changed in certain ways. So, you should always go by the Notice of Funding Opportunity currently available when preparing your application. But just hope that it will be helpful to you to see some samples of what other people have done. 00:26:20.710 --> 00:26:45.880 Macklem, Mary I’m going to take just a few minutes to talk specifically about a few of the required attachments. Not all of them, in the interest of time, but I wanted to talk a little bit about the narrative today. This is the document which explains your project to reviewers. Your narrative should address four areas, and these are described in the Notice of Funding Opportunity section D. 00:26:46.780 --> 00:27:10.570 Macklem, Mary So, significance and contribution, organization and methods, competencies, skills and access and final product and dissemination. You'll notice that those follow fairly closely the review criteria for the program and there's lots of suggestions or guidance in the Notice of Funding Opportunity about what those 00:27:11.010 --> 00:27:12.880 Macklem, Mary what you should include there. 00:27:14.860 --> 00:27:22.030 Macklem, Mary Another required attachment for this program that I just wanted to mention a little bit more about today is your work plan. 00:27:23.140 --> 00:27:53.250 Macklem, Mary This is a separate attachment. It's attachment 2, and it also is required. This must only be one page. You can present it in any format you choose, whether it's a table, whether it's a listing, whether it's in prose, or some combination, but it should not go beyond a page, so be sure to be careful with your pages and you should indicate on this how many months of support you're requesting 00:27:53.770 --> 00:28:07.200 Macklem, Mary and whether you propose full or part time work, or a combination thereof. So, you can you can toggle between, you know, full time during the academic year, part time during the summer and back to full time, or whatever works with your schedule. 00:28:08.330 --> 00:28:21.580 Macklem, Mary The only thing to draw your attention to about that is the work plan must be continuous, so you can't work full time for four months and then not work on the NEH project for three months or something, and then go back to the [NEH project]. So, it has to be continuous. 00:28:22.970 --> 00:28:36.490 Macklem, Mary The other thing to mention here is that your minimum time commitment must be at least half time. So NEH defines part time as at least half time, or fifty percent of your usual load devoted to the NEH project. 00:28:38.600 --> 00:29:00.750 Macklem, Mary So this is another listing. It's very similar to the table from the Notice of Funding Opportunity, of your attachments for the application. The required attachments are listed there. So, I spoke about the narrative and the work plan. The bibliography is a one-page document and should have primary and secondary sources, and 00:29:01.910 --> 00:29:13.850 Macklem, Mary we have more guidance in the Notice of Funding Opportunity. Your resume also is described there. I would look at that. It's a two-page document. And then there's the grants.gov forms that are required as well. 00:29:15.260 --> 00:29:44.450 Macklem, Mary Recommended this year, as was last year, is the document called the Confirmation of Institutional Support. This document should confirm that you have institutional support, signed by an institutional representative--so someone in the Office of Sponsored Research, if you have such an office, or a vice president or a Dean, and it should indicate that your institution will allow you to accept 00:29:44.950 --> 00:30:02.780 Macklem, Mary and award if offered, even though it might reduce your teaching load. So, the other thing to mention about this is it's recommended as you can see. So what does that mean? That just means that NEH encourages you to submit this document when you apply on April 12th. 00:30:03.980 --> 00:30:22.350 Macklem, Mary However, if for whatever you know, it takes time to get this document, you can't get the signature you need or whatever, you do have some wiggle room with this one. It's recommended, but if you are recommended and offered an award, you must submit it before NEH will issue you an award. 00:30:23.330 --> 00:30:31.720 Macklem, Mary And you can actually submit that at anytime throughout the review period, but we strongly encourage you to put it in with your application materials. 00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:51.830 Macklem, Mary And then the last element there are conditionally required attachments. These are discussed again in the Notice of Funding Opportunity, Section D and there are specific types of projects where you are required to submit some additional information, such as course revision projects. 00:30:53.070 --> 00:31:21.920 Macklem, Mary You are required to put in some syllabi, [for exampler]. So I'm not going to go through those in detail today, but just to alert you to that also for translation projects you would want to put a sample in, but you should follow the page numbers and all of that in the Notice of Funding Opportunity, and you should not submit anything else that is not required, recommended or conditionally required. And if you have any questions at all 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:30.840 Macklem, Mary about any of that, please reach out to anyone of us. We would be happy to talk with you about it and to answer your questions prior to the deadline. 00:31:33.420 --> 00:31:47.530 Macklem, Mary A few things extra to know about these are all in the Notice of Funding Opportunity, but I mentioned the required grants.gov forms and just be aware that you would be filling these forms out in the grants.gov 00:31:48.660 --> 00:32:17.130 Macklem, Mary website and you will be asked for a few things that you should have ready to go. One is of 1,000 character abstract of your project and title and this will appear on the front page of your application. Reviewers will use it to understand an overview of your project. Another thing you will be asked for on the grants.gov forms is contact information for two letters of reference. 00:32:47.330 --> 00:33:10.120 Macklem, Mary Umm, just to go back to this point. I mentioned it already talking about application materials, but I just don't want anyone to not understand or not be aware of this that NEH enforces what's said in the Notice of Funding Opportunity. So NEH will not consider applications submitted after the deadline. 00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:42.230 Macklem, Mary Even you know, 2 minutes after the deadline, so I would urge you to submit your application early so that you can make sure, you know, there weren't any technical errors. There wasn’t any congestion on the web or whatever, so that you can get that proposal the application materials in. NEH will not consider incomplete, nonresponsive or ineligible applications for funding either. So those words mean different things to us at NEH, but an incomplete proposal-- if you've missed one of the required attachments. 00:33:43.010 --> 00:33:58.640 Macklem, Mary Or if you have, you know a 10-page narrative instead of the required mandatory 3. Those things can lead to your application being rejected and not going through review. So, we don't want that. So, I'm drawing your attention to it now. 00:33:59.880 --> 00:34:16.730 Macklem, Mary Then, also NEH will not consider applications that exceed page limits or deviate from the formatting instructions. So just take the Notice of Funding Opportunity; it has step-by-step kinds of advice and guidance to help you. 00:34:19.010 --> 00:34:26.510 Macklem, Mary So the last little bit before we go to a Q&A session is about how do you submit your application? 00:34:27.820 --> 00:34:57.620 Macklem, Mary And at this point, you're probably tired of hearing me say that, well, the Notice of Funding Opportunity will tell you, but it does. And we do try every year to be as clear as we can in that, to give you kind of step-by-step how this works. But first you need to know that your application must be submitted to grants.gov and it must be submitted online and in order to use grants.gov, you will need to create a login.gov 00:34:57.770 --> 00:35:13.810 Macklem, Mary user account to register and log in to grants.gov. In the Notice of Funding Opportunity, there's a link that will help you know exactly how to go about creating a login.gov user account and registering with grants.gov. 00:36:05.010 --> 00:36:34.930 Macklem, Mary The next thing to just let you know. I would urge you to register for grants.gov. and the login.gov account; I would even do it today if you have time, or, you know, sometime soon. Just put it out of your mind so that you can do it and that you know it's been processed and everything is in order and you can access the system--so that you're not trying to do this a week or two before the deadline. It does take grants.gov sometimes a bit of time for this to go through. 00:36:35.030 --> 00:36:38.200 Macklem, Mary So I would urge you to do it early as possible. 00:36:39.520 --> 00:37:02.830 Macklem, Mary So once you're in grants.gov, you can access the application package through a link on the program resource page actually, and it will take you into where you need to go. If you take a look at it, be sure to apply to the correct opportunity, and that's what this screenshot shows you. So, as I mentioned at the beginning, the Awards for Faculty program 00:37:03.910 --> 00:37:15.660 Macklem, Mary has a program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Tribal Colleges and Universities and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. And so you need to apply to the Hispanic Serving Institutions link. 00:37:17.260 --> 00:37:39.510 Macklem, Mary As I mentioned, I would advise you to submit your application early, to allow plenty of time for technical problems. For example, if you submit your attachments as .docs instead of PDFs, grants.gov will reject it and [then] you will need to save your attachments and then resubmit. So you don't want to be encountering this right before the deadline. 00:37:40.610 --> 00:38:01.480 Macklem, Mary And the other thing is to watch for emails from grants.gov, because they will send you some automated emails saying that, you know, if there's any technical problems with your proposal, they can see that. Things like page numbers are checked at a later stage in the application process. 00:38:14.390 --> 00:38:20.580 Macklem, Mary Uh, so check, check [your application package]. And then the last thing to give you is the grants.gov helpline. 00:38:21.120 --> 00:38:40.400 Macklem, Mary They are at 1-800-518-4726 and any questions at all about creating the individual profile or how do I get to this opportunity or those kinds of things--they should be equipped to help you with, they know their 00:38:44.240 --> 00:38:47.370 Macklem, Mary platform very well. So they are a good place to turn to as well. 00:38:49.450 --> 00:39:03.620 Macklem, Mary On my last slide, before we're in the Q&A, is resources. So, these are a summation. I've mentioned a lot of these throughout today, and I have links here which I hope you can get to through the screen that you're looking at. 00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:55.400 Macklem, Mary And that has all of the details about all of all the requirements-- the required attachments, page numbers, all of that. Also what a narrative should include, you know, the kinds of things to consider if you're applying for a course revision project, that kind of guidance. Sample application narratives also appear on the program web page. As I mentioned, there's a link for recently funded projects through this program and a frequently asked question document. 00:39:57.610 --> 00:40:26.610 Macklem, Mary And the next thing to remind you of is to submit a draft narrative and work plan for staff feedback if you wish to. This is optional. You don't have to do that, but we'd be happy as a staff, to take a look at it and offer you what feedback we can. If you want to do this, you should follow the Notice of Funding Opportunity guidance on what this should look like, and you need to submit it by February 8th, 2023. If it comes in after that, we're not 00:40:26.690 --> 00:40:39.340 Macklem, Mary allowed to look at it. You would submit this to us at our e-mail box at facultyawards@neh.gov. So this goes into the e-mail. It doesn't go into grants.gov. 00:40:40.700 --> 00:41:10.010 Macklem, Mary Let's see what else. Yes, please call us or e-mail us with any questions and our contact info is there. And lastly, I have linked the Awards for Faculty Terms and Conditions. This is a document that helps you understand, you know, where you accept an award, what are some of the requirements and restrictions and so on and so forth. So, I hope that these links will help you. And just remember that 00:41:10.090 --> 00:41:23.540 Macklem, Mary we're here to help you. We're here to learn about your projects. We're happy to talk with you. And please feel encouraged to reach out to us. Here again is our contact information and our names and email. 00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:43.630 Macklem, Mary With that, I'm going to turn the mic over to my colleague Jacob to help with your questions and answers today and we're all going to just have a free, you know, a conversation. And we'll answer your questions. So very happy to hear from you. 00:41:44.950 --> 00:42:15.260 Lusk, Jacob So we've got a couple of questions that have come in. And I also have a list of questions that we get from lots of folks as well. So I'll, I'll just be tossing them out there. We've already got a question sort of about the relationship between the individual applicant and the institutional applicant. So, I just want to confirm what Mary said that you will need to create your own personal grants.gov account, and you'll need to apply as an individual; if you're awarded, the award will be yours, as an individual. 00:42:15.820 --> 00:42:20.600 Lusk, Jacob But now I'll turn this to Dannal and Naz. How are awards paid out? 00:43:04.910 --> 00:43:08.100 Lusk, Jacob Sorry, sorry, I'm answering questions and taking new ones at the same time. 00:43:28.650 --> 00:43:43.540 Lusk, Jacob The next question is how am I allowed to spend the funds? Do I need to propose how I'm going to spend funds in my application, or do I need to do any budgetary reporting after the award? 00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:48.450 Lusk, Jacob And again, I'll turn that to Nas and Dannal. 00:43:51.860 --> 00:43:59.960 Fontenot, Al-Nasir You would not need to do any financial reporting. There is no budget associated with the this program specifically. 00:44:01.660 --> 00:44:09.780 Fontenot, Al-Nasir There will be a report for a final performance report. Budgets again are not required and there's no financial reporting required. 00:44:13.710 --> 00:44:15.520 Lusk, Jacob This next question is. 00:44:17.290 --> 00:44:41.560 Lusk, Jacob Do projects have to relate to Hispanic culture or history, or have to relate to Hispanic institutions of any sort? And the answer to that question is no. This program will fund projects in any area of the humanities that Mary mentioned earlier, anything from literature to philosophy to archaeology, and, and so on. 00:44:41.980 --> 00:44:49.820 Lusk, Jacob And if your project is a community project, of course, then it might pertain a little bit more closely to the institution that you're at. 00:44:59.080 --> 00:45:20.190 Macklem, Mary No. So there there's no prioritization of project types. The whole idea from our perspective is to offer to, to hear from the applicants what kind of humanities research projects you are undertaking on your campuses, in your scholarly work and therefore, 00:45:20.260 --> 00:45:26.100 Macklem, Mary you know, book projects are just as valued as community research projects, 00:45:27.740 --> 00:45:53.100 Macklem, Mary and vice versa. The reviewers use the same review criteria for all projects, so you need to make a very strong case for whatever project you are proposing in those five areas. So the significance to the humanities, and so on. So that's all. I would just remind you, as you're writing your narrative, for whatever type of outcome that you need to be convincing in those five points. 00:45:55.630 --> 00:46:15.540 Lusk, Jacob Great. And then Mary, we're getting a couple of questions that I think relate to how do I fit as much information into these small documents as I can. We got a question about the bibliography. We got a lot of questions about a two-page resume. What tips do you have for people on how to how to condense everything into the page limits? 00:46:16.850 --> 00:46:32.340 Macklem, Mary Yes, thank you. Those are great questions, and I know it its difficult. We've heard that before, I think, but everybody on the other hand, everybody is required to follow those same rules and guidance. 00:46:33.340 --> 00:46:37.310 Macklem, Mary And so I would say about, you know, the bibliography. 00:46:38.980 --> 00:47:00.270 Macklem, Mary I've noticed that reviewers like to see a range of sources. Obviously, you can't cite all of the sources for a project, at least, probably not. But you know, if you have primary and secondary sources listed. If you're doing a film project, you might have films on there, as, you know, I guess your primary sources. So, there's all different types of sources you might include. 00:47:01.780 --> 00:47:33.830 Macklem, Mary I would recommend that you try to show the full scope of your project through what you select there. I would also say that in your narrative, if you are referring to you know you're providing the context for your project, you're providing the scholarly context for it. If you have a citation there, probably not a full citation, but you don't need to then replicate that citation in the bibliograph, if it's clear from the narrative. So just to point that out, and also if you have your own publications, 00:47:34.490 --> 00:47:40.640 Macklem, Mary you can save those for your resume document, rather than taking up space in the bibliography. 00:47:43.040 --> 00:48:11.410 Macklem, Mary Yeah. And in terms of the the resume, we give you guidance in the Notice of Funding Opportunity on what kinds of things you should keep in there. We're aware that many faculty resumes or CVS really are much longer than two pages. So we ask for very specific things for the reviewers to be able to see things like your education, things like publications that pertain. 00:48:11.490 --> 00:48:39.240 Macklem, Mary You know, especially if they pertain, if you've received previous NEH funding, you would list that and show what the result was. I think it's helpful to indicate language competencies on a CV if it's appropriate to your project of course, and those kinds of things. But we're also happy to talk with you one-on-one. As you work on preparing your proposal, if you have questions, feel free to just reach out. 00:48:41.240 --> 00:48:57.110 Lusk, Jacob Mary, I'm sorry if you covered this. I'm trying to answer other questions in the chat, but we did have a question about primary sources versus secondary sources in the bibliography. Is there like a recommended breakdown for how you know how they should allocate space? 00:48:58.730 --> 00:49:17.770 Macklem, Mary No, I don't think so. The sample application narratives give you ideas of the many different ways that applicants have successfully created these documents. There is no way you must do these things. I think it should speak to the project and what your project is about. 00:49:19.390 --> 00:49:20.710 Macklem, Mary That would be my suggestion. 00:49:22.550 --> 00:49:35.580 Lusk, Jacob We have a couple of questions about letters of recommendation: Who would make for the best recommender, the best referees? Who should people ask to write letters, and how are they used in the review? 00:49:39.030 --> 00:49:43.390 Macklem, Mary Do you want to take that Jacob or I am happy to talk about that too. 00:49:43.790 --> 00:49:46.680 Lusk, Jacob If you don't mind, there are a few more [questions]. 00:49:45.150 --> 00:50:15.880 Macklem, Mary Sure, sure. There are a lot of questions, OK. And I have to say Jacob will be departing at about 1:58 our time because he's doing another Notice of Funding Opportunity webinar with a different colleague. So, I'll still be here. We will finish at 2:00 o'clock, or you know on the hour. But if we haven't gotten to your question, we will try to e-mail back with you. But if you don't get a response, you're also very welcome to write to us. We'd welcome that. 00:50:15.980 --> 00:50:23.440 Macklem, Mary With your questions following the webinar and we'll get to those as we can over the next few days. So--I'm sorry, the letters of reference. 00:50:24.560 --> 00:50:53.570 Macklem, Mary You know, in general, scholars who have taken the time to speak with you about your project, about the current stage of your project, and who have kept up with your work, can write very often the stronger letters-- perhaps because they know at what stage you're working and they're not just talking about what you were doing 10 years ago. So, I would think that that might be more helpful than someone who maybe has a very recognized name but has not had the time to keep up 00:50:53.830 --> 00:51:07.880 Macklem, Mary with you. I would also recommend that whomever you choose, that you share your proposal with them and so that they're, you know, up-to-date about what you're proposing to the NEH for your project. 00:51:09.020 --> 00:51:12.410 Macklem, Mary That’s some thoughts I had about that. 00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:30.590 Lusk, Jacob And we've had a couple of questions about concurrent applications, and I'd just like to confirm for everyone that you can apply generally to a lot of other NEH programs and at the same time that you're applying to the Awards for Faculty program. 00:51:31.910 --> 00:51:45.790 Lusk, Jacob There may be some things that have to be considered if you were to get more than one award. I do want to confirm that you cannot apply to the NEH Fellowships program at the same time that you apply to the Awards for Faculty program. 00:51:47.090 --> 00:51:49.670 Lusk, Jacob You can't compete concurrently in those programs. 00:51:50.150 --> 00:52:01.330 Lusk, Jacob Umm. And to Nas and Dannal, I think there may also be some restrictions over applying for the same activities in other NEH programs. Do you want to just quickly speak to that? 00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:04.690 Perry, Dannal 00:52:06.490 --> 00:52:16.590 Perry, Dannal You could apply for the same project that is in different stages across federal grants or just in the NEH, but you can't apply for the exact same 00:52:18.010 --> 00:52:18.780 Perry, Dannal activities. 00:52:19.390 --> 00:52:21.190 Perry, Dannal across federal grants. 00:52:24.200 --> 00:52:24.890 Lusk, Jacob OK, great. 00:52:25.290 --> 00:52:43.180 Macklem, Mary Yeah. And just to add to that, I mean you, so if there are some programs that support individual research at NEH and many of them have an April deadline. You can't, like Jacob mentioned [apply to some of those concurrently.] I would just take the Notice of Funding Opportunity to see the current listing for that. 00:52:44.900 --> 00:52:46.890 Macklem, Mary And then just call us if you have any questions. 00:52:49.090 --> 00:53:04.090 Lusk, Jacob I think, I hope, that I've answered most or all of the questions that have come into the chat. If we haven't answered any of your questions, please feel free to e-mail us at facultyawards@neh.gov and we'll be happy to get back to you as soon as possible. 00:53:05.610 --> 00:53:09.800 Lusk, Jacob I'm looking over my list here to see if there's anything else we could cover. 00:53:10.260 --> 00:53:11.030 Lusk, Jacob 00:53:12.380 --> 00:53:22.490 Lusk, Jacob Daniel and Nas do you just want to quickly talk about full time and part time and confirm for folks whether they can do both, whether they can, how that works? 00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:24.850 Perry, Dannal Sure. 00:53:24.540 --> 00:53:25.960 Fontenot, Al-Nasir Yeah, sure I can. I can take that one. 00:53:26.420 --> 00:53:50.560 Fontenot, Al-Nasir Full time is obviously allowed. [For] part-time, the minimum is 50%, so these awards are up to 24 months of part time. So, if you worked part time, you could work up to 24 months. You can work part time and full time and schedule out different periods of when you will be doing those and your 00:53:50.900 --> 00:53:59.610 Fontenot, Al-Nasir payment schedule will be adjusted ingly depending on how you work that out. It's usually $5000 per month. 00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:24.940 Fontenot, Al-Nasir So you would get paid typically $15,000 for four months if you were full time and we adjusted ingly. But yes, there's many ways you can work with working full time and part time and if you have any questions about that, you can reach out to the Office of Grants management or your grants management specialist and we'll be able to assist you in adjusting your schedule. 00:54:26.880 --> 00:54:57.490 Lusk, Jacob Thanks. OK, I'll just answer one more question and then Mary, I think we can wrap up. The last question is, what is the rate of success for applicants to this program, and it varies a little bit by year and ing to our budget. But, generally speaking, around 12 to 13%, and actually last year it was a little bit higher-- I believe closer to 15%. So, the success rate in this program is a little bit higher than in the regular Fellowships program. 00:54:57.710 --> 00:55:15.660 Lusk, Jacob And as you saw throughout the presentation, this program does have several different types of flexibilities that the general Fellowships program does not have. So those are sort of the main things to consider if you're thinking about deciding whether to apply to one program or the other. 00:55:16.290 --> 00:55:25.880 Lusk, Jacob I think that we've covered everything that everyone wanted to ask. So, Mary, I'll turn it back over to you and thanks so much. 00:55:28.110 --> 00:55:58.500 Macklem, Mary Thank you so much. Thank you. Jacob, I know you'll you have to cut out now and we just really appreciate everybody attending today. I appreciate my colleagues for being here today: Al-Nazir, Dannal and Jacob. And if any of us can help you with anything as you prepare your project, or if you have questions. We did try to answer most of the questions, but we may have overlooked some. So just be in touch on e-mail 00:55:58.580 --> 00:56:19.570 Macklem, Mary if we didn't get to your question or we didn't quite answer it and you still have a question, feel free. That's what this is for, to open a conversation and to tell you about this. And we'll be happy to help how we can. So, for that, I will just say thank you again for attending, and thank you to my colleagues. And we hope to see your applications this year. 00:56:20.650 --> 00:56:21.180 Macklem, Mary Bye bye.