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Regional Studies for Liberal Arts Learning: 
An Appalachian Exemplar

A National Endowment for the Humanities
 Summer Institute for College and University Teachers
June 3-28, 2002

Twenty-five teachers will receive stipends of $2,800 each to discuss mainstreaming regionalism in the liberal arts curriculum. From a range of disciplines, the Institute will examine Appalachian issues that provide a window on the wider world. Institute leaders expect to choose participants from many regions of the country, not just Appalachia. Institute faculty are Stephen L. Fisher, Denise Giardina, Tina Hanlon, Patricia A. Johnson, Clyde Kessler, George Loveland, Susan Mead, Roddy Moore, Crandall Shifflett, Carolyn Thomas, Vaughan Webb, Charles Reagan Wilson, and Daniel Woods. The director is Peter Crow (pcrow@ferrum.edu; 540/365-4320).

An informational letter contains details. The application form may be filled out and printed, or printed and filled out. Postmarked no later than March 1, all application material should be mailed to: 

NEH Summer Institute
Ferrum College
Ferrum, VA 24088 
Attention: Denna Austin