Application

NEH Participant Application Guidelines

Please review the NEH Participant Application Guidelines: http://www.wmich.edu/history/landmarks/NEH_Participant_Guidelines.pdf.

Eligibility

The workshops are open to all full-time and part-time classroom teachers in public, private, parochial, and charter schools, as well as home-schooling parents.  Other K-12 school personnel, including administrators, substitute teachers, classroom paraprofessionals, and librarians, are eligible to participate, subject to available space.  Educators at institutions that carry out projects with K-12 schools may also
apply.  All disciplines are welcome.

Teachers at schools in the United States or its territorial possessions or Americans teaching in foreign schools where at least 50 percent of the students are American nationals are eligible for this program.  Applicants must be United States citizens, residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.  Foreign nationals teaching abroad are not eligible to apply.

Applicants must complete the NEH application and provide all of the information requested to be considered eligible.  An individual may apply to and participate in a maximum of two (2) workshops, and may not apply to a program previously attended.  Past or present participation in the NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes program does not affect an individual’s eligibility to participate in Landmarks programs.

Equal Opportunity. NEH programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age.  For further information, write to NEH Equal Opportunity Officer, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506.  TDD: (202)606-8282 (a special telephone device for the deaf).

Application Procedures and Deadline

Application packet. Your application packet will consist of three copies of the following collated items:

• Application Cover Sheet: Complete the application online at www.neh.gov/online/education/participants/ and hit the submit button.  Print the cover sheet to include in your packet.
• Resume or curriculum vitae
• Essay as described below (up to one double-spaced page)
• Letter of recommendation as described below

Essay.  Perhaps the most important part of the completed application is an essay of up to one double-spaced page.  Your essay should include information about your professional background and interest in the subject of the workshop; your special perspectives, skills, or experiences that would contribute to the workshop; and how the experience would enhance your teaching or school service. 

Letter of recommendation. Please submit a letter of recommendation from your school principal, department head, district administrator, or home-schooling association president as appropriate.  Please ask your referee to sign her/his name across the seal on the back of the envelope containing the letter.  Enclose the letter with your application.
 
Mailing your application. Please submit your application today, a few spots are still available.  (Please note that we cannot accept applications via fax, email, or as email attachments.)  Send your application to the following person/address:

Professor Fred Dobney
NEH Workshop
Department of History
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Email: Fredrick.dobney@wmich.edu

Notification. We will notify successful applicants by April 16, 2007.  You will have until April 23, 2007 to accept or decline the offer.  If you will not be home during the notification period, please provide an address and phone number where you can be reached.  No information on the status of applications will be available prior to the official notification period.

If you have any questions, please contact us at the above email address. We look forward to meeting you this summer!