Honors College Receives $300,000 Teagle Grant
The Farquhar Honors College received a $300,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation to support its Knowledge for Freedom program. The three-week program will provide underserved high school juniors in Broward County with an immersive college experience as they navigate the humanities to bring about change.
Qualifying students will commute to NSU’s main Fort Lauderdale/Davie campus for the program’s first week and reside in the dorms on campus for the final two weeks. Their weekly schedules will consist of attending humanities seminars with various NSU faculty. Lead faculty and Co-PI Aileen Farrar, Ph.D., associate professor and associate chair in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences (HCAS), will primarily lead these seminars focusing on transformative humanities texts.
“There is a lot to learn when studying the humanities,” said Farrar. “For me, the most important lessons that I hope will stick for our students are how to risk inquiry, appreciate ambiguity, and trust ourselves even when sometimes our own intuition and impulses might not yet fully make sense. When studying the humanities, we are often learning how to address and navigate the unknown, and learning how to do this prepares us to lead ourselves and others outside the classroom.”
Guest lecturers will include G. Nelson Bass III, J.D., Ph.D., assistant professor and associate chair in HCAS, and Vicki Toscano, J.D., Ph.D., associate professor in HCAS, who will bring a political science and philosophy perspective, respectively, to the discussions. NSU undergraduate humanities students will also have the opportunity to serve as teaching assistants and mentor the students.
The program will run for three weeks each summer over the next three years. Andrea Nevins, Ph.D., M.F.A., dean of the Farquhar Honors College, is PI, and Melissa Dore, Ph.D., director of Academic Support and Administration in HCAS, is Co-PI alongside Farrar.
Learn more about the Teagle Foundation’s Knowledge for Freedom program.
Posted 02/19/23