Students, faculty, and administrators from the School of the Humanities greatly appreciate the support of its donors. Our current fundraising objectives focus on endowing the Center for Public Humanities and the Academic Humanities Enrichment Fund. However, you may also choose to contribute to specific departments or scholarship programs. We are working closely with the Office of Development to form partnerships with individuals, corporations, foundations, service organizations, and government agencies to secure endowment funding for the following programs:
Donors may either contribute to the Center’s endowment with unrestricted gifts, or contribute to one of the four programs of the Center (Society of Public Humanities Fellows, Public Humanities Community Events, Hoverter Course, or the Teachers as Scholars program).
Donors may either contribute to the Academic Humanities Enrichment Fund with unrestricted gifts, or contribute to one of the four programs of the enrichment Endowment (Society of Humanities Research Fellows, Humanities Roundtable Reading Groups, Humanities House Living/Learning Community, or the Humanities Travel Grants fund).
This fund enables the support of a distinguished humanities scholar in residence for a two-three week period (perhaps during January Term), often in conjunction with a fellows seminar project or a conference. The scholar will be expected to offer lectures, master classes, and consultations where appropriate.
Two-year appointments as a Lecturer in the School of the Humanities for assistance in covering coursework of tenure-track faculty who are involved in the Center for Public Humanities initiatives. This program serve s a very valuable function in the recruitment of new faculty, as the College could choose to offer a tenure-track position to strong participants in the program after their postdoctoral appointment is completed.
We are seeking an endowed humanities scholarship for each of the seven departments in the School of the Humanities (Biblical & Religious Studies, Communication, English, History, Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Politics) to be named after the donor. These scholarships would be used in recruiting students of high academic promise and significant economic need.
We are seeking an endowed faculty chair for each of the seven departments in the School of the Humanities (Biblical & Religious Studies, Communication, English, History, Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Politics) to be named after the donor. Such endowed chairs would lighten the burden of the College’s operating budget for at least one faculty line, and would serve as a way of honoring faculty of excellence.
We are asking for support on this $2 million endowment building project. In December 2007 the Center for Public Humanities (CPH) was notified that it had been selected to receive the $200,000 National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grant, a presigious, competitive, sought-after award. This three-year Challenge Grant will match $1 to every $3 of gift awarded to either the Center for Public Humanities or the Academic Humanities Enrichment Fund. You can see that your gift then becomes even more valuable.
For more information about giving support, please contact: Jon Stuckey, Director of Development, Messiah College, Box 3013, One College Avenue, Grantham PA 17027, (717) 766-2511 ext. 3631,
jstuckey@messiah.edu.
For information about the School of the Humanities or the Center for Public Humanities, please contact: Peter K. Powers, Interim Dean, School of the Humanities, Messiah College, One College Avenue, Grantham PA 17027, (717) 766-2511 ext. 7376,
ppowers@messiah.edu.
