Illinois has selected 17 proposed projects to receive a total of more than $11 million with an aim to generate new sources of revenue. The new initiative, Investment for Growth, is an effort to develop sustainable budget models that create alternative and additional sources of revenue and allow the university to deliver on its academic missions. Read more about the Investment for Growth initiative.
One of the funded projects was IPRH's Training in Digital Methods for Humanists. This program is a mid-career faculty development initiative akin to “study in a second discipline.” It is designed to confront the challenge of equipping humanities scholars with the digital tools, computational methods, and technological expertise they need to keep abreast of changes in scholarly research, teaching, publication, and communication. Through a competitive application process, three cohorts of four tenured faculty each will audit two undergraduate or graduate courses offered on campus that will allow them to develop competencies in “digital humanities,” broadly conceived.