> > The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the availability of u > up to four fellowships in its Division of Public PPrograms, to be > awarded to promising public humanities professionals. FFFellllows > would participate in the work of the Division's Museums and > Special Projects programs from mid-January l995 to the end of > March l995. The application deadline is November 7, l994. > Decisions to be announced the week of November 21. Each fellow > will receive an NEH grant of $5,500. Guidelines and application > materials are available on NEH's electronic bulletin board at > 202/606-8688 (8-N-1) Applicants must currently be working in > some area of public programming in the humanities--in museums, > libraries, cultural centers, historical societies, public radio > or television stations, or other organizations that provide > public humanities programs. NEH actively seeks to extend its reach to underrep > resented groups, particularly to rural and inner-city communities > and minority and tribal individuals and iiinstitutions. Accordingly > the NEH encourages applications from individuals at small, embergi > emerging, minority and rural museums, libraries, cultural and tribal > centers, and public radio and television stations. > hi, i too looked at this announcement, and feel that interested persons need to know they are expected to come up with their own funds for air-fare and housing, which pretty much limits the number of people from small institutions or any graduate students who wish to respond...too bad, sounded like a very good program to take part in. Anyone else have any thoughts on the matter of fellowships, their exclusiveness or otherwise? thanks from another poor graduate student.