Awards for Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Eligible Applicants:

Within the parameters listed below (see the next several headings), individuals who are fulltime, part-time, adjunct, and retired faculty members and staff members affiliated with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as designated by the U.S. Department of Education at the time of application, are eligible to apply. Confirm your institution’s status with the U.S. Department of Education by visiting the Accredited HBCU Listing page below. The eligible IHEs are in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carlina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, DC, and West Virginia.

Citizenship
U.S. citizens who teach at, serve on the staff of, or have retired from an HBCU are eligible to apply. Foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the application deadline are also eligible, provided that they teach at, serve on the staff of, or have retired from an HBCU. Foreign nationals who take up permanent residence outside the United States any time between the application deadline and the end of the period of performance will forfeit their eligibility to hold an award. (Leaving the U.S. on a temporary basis is permitted.)

Currently enrolled students
While applicants need not have advanced degrees, individuals currently enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible to apply. Applicants who have satisfied all the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral are eligible for NEH Awards for Faculty. Such applicants must include a letter from the dean of the conferring school or their department chair attesting to the applicant’s status as of April 8, 2020 in application attachment 6: Degree conferral.

Applicants may apply to only one of the following programs in a given federal fiscal year:
- Awards for Faculty
- Fellowships
- NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publications
- Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

Applicants to one of the above programs may, however, compete concurrently in the following programs for individuals in a given year:
- Public Scholars
- Summer Stipends
- NEH and National Science Foundation Fellowship Program for Documenting-Endangered Languages (DEL)
- NEH-funded Fellowships at Independent Research Institutions

Applicants may not apply for funding for a project previously supported by an NEH Fellowship, an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication, a Public Scholars award, or an Award for Faculty. Applicants may, however, apply for funding for a project previously supported by a two-month NEH Summer Stipend.

You may not hold two or more NEH individual awards (for example, an Award for Faculty and a Summer Stipend) with overlapping periods of performance, and you may not accept or hold two NEH individual awards in the same fiscal year

NEH does not make awards to other federal entities or to applicants whose projects are so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity’s own authorized activities. This does not preclude applicants from using funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal entities in their projects.

There will be a pre-application webinar:

Monday, January 27, 2020
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM EST
To register: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2742491364787593227

Timeline:
- Application available January 2, 2020
- Optional Draft due February 12, 2020
- Application due April 8, 2020 at 11:59 PM Easter Time
- Expected notification date December 31, 2020

Applicants may submit a draft narrative for staff review. Draft narratives must be submitted no later than February 12, 2020.

Before applying for a funding opportunity, you need to register an account with Grants.gov. Whether you are an applicant for an organization or an individual applying for grants on your own, you only need to register one account on Grants.gov. The Grants.gov registration process can be completed in minutes. To register: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/register.html

View this opportunity on Grants.gov: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=323392

For a list of application documents, see the Package tab (press Preview) on the Grants.gov page above.

Accredited HBCU Listing: https://nces.ed.gov/COLLEGENAVIGATOR/?s=all&sp=4&pg=1

Webinar Recording: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/2779692243530116620