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...Harvard lecturers are among 137 American scholars who last week received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH...
...National Endowment for the Humanities, which provided $1.3 million to the $4.6 million series, received 300 letters alleging distortion. So when Accuracy in Media, a group dedicated to liberal bias, suggested a rebuttal show, NEH Chairman William Bennett awarded a start-up grant of $30,000, despite disagreement among his top aides. Explained Bennett: "It seemed only reasonable to answer some of the questions raised." According to A.I.M. Chairman Reed Irvine, the reply, to be offered to PBS stations, will show up "errors and omissions" in the series' coverage of Vietnamese history and the life of Ho Chi Minh...
...boost or a promotion, secondary school teachers frequently return to college during the summer, often earning credit for taking such soft subjects as "Decision Making and Leadership Development." William Bennett, chairman of the federally financed National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), had a better idea about the instructors' true wishes. Instead of educational methodology or the latest curriculum fads, he argued, "what teachers want to study is the real stuff, the right stuff." So NEH decided to fund 15 seminars this summer for high school faculty members. The program offered no formal academic credits but did pay teachers...
...past, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)--which ran the seminar program--has sponsored summer study in the humanities on college campuses throughout the country for college professors...
...department recruited Baranczak on the basis of his published work, but not all refugees have had that assistance. Sixty-eight-year-old Soviet writer and dissident Kirill Uspensky, now working at the Russian Research Center with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), says he wrote to universities "all over the world" to find a place to finish his project, the compilation of a dictionary of unconventional Russian words. Once Harvard had invited him, it provided him with office space and supplies for his work, and colleagues at the University helped him prepared documents for his NEH...