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Across the United States, faculty and students at higher education institutions are engaging communities in humanities research, teaching, preservation, and a wide variety of public programming. Humanities for All showcases the full range of these higher ed-based publicly engaged humanities initiatives, presenting a cross section of over 1400 undertaken over the past decade from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This collection includes a wide range of humanities projects that engage with diverse publics as audiences and as partners. The catalogued publicly engaged humanities initiatives fall into one or more of the following categories:
- Outreach: scholarly programming and media for a general audience, including public lectures, op-eds, and podcasts;
- Engaged research: research initiatives in which higher education faculty and students partner with community members, including community-based research;
- Engaged teaching: higher education coursework involving community engagement, including service learning and project-based learning beyond the university;
- Engaged public programming: public programming in which the primary objective is not the transfer of knowledge, but the creation of an experience, such as community conversation programming; and
- The infrastructure of engagement: institutional structures that support engaged scholarship, including degree programs, centers, funding opportunities, digital technologies, and curriculum reorientation initiatives.