Bunker Hill Community College Wins NEH Grant
Monday, June 16, 2014
Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) has received a Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The College will receive $120,000 to conduct a three-year project in Asian American studies in partnership with the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Asian American Studies Program. “The project will provide a template for partnering with community organizations and institutions to produce robust humanities scholarship that is grounded in the Boston area’s rich local history, culture and communities,” said Pam Y. Eddinger, President of Bunker Hill Community College.
The collaboration will strengthen BHCC’s humanities program through the design and integration of Asian American studies curricula into the College’s learning communities. “I am thrilled that our institutions have joined together through an explicit humanities-centered curriculum focus,” said J. Keith Motley, Ph.D., Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Peter Kiang, Ed.D. Professor of Education and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, will serve as the university’s Team Leader for the project. BHCC Dean of Humanities and Learning Communities Lori A. Catallozzi will serve as Project Director, and Director of Learning Communities Liya Escalera will serve as BHCC Team Leader. The U.S. Department of Education has designated both institutions as Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI).
The National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation.
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About Bunker Hill Community College
With more than 50 years of academic excellence, Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) is Massachusetts' largest community college, annually welcoming a diverse community of around 16,000 students. With campuses in Charlestown and Chelsea, BHCC extends its reach across several locations in Greater Boston. The College offers associate degrees and certificates, early college and dual enrollment, community education, corporate training, and industry-specific training programs. BHCC is celebrated for its diversity, boasting a student body where 65% identify as people of color and more than half are women. The College also embraces a global perspective, with over 600 international students representing 90 countries and conversing in more than 65 languages. Our commitment to diversity is further reflected in BHCC's designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI).