D degrees in history from Columbia University and the University of Michigan, respectively. Under federal legislation governing the National Endowment for the Humanities and affiliate state humanities councils, each state governor may appoint up to six persons to seats on the independent, nonprofit councils of their state for the duration of their terms in office. The Michigan Humanities Council regularly solicits nominations for Council membership, both academic and public representation from throughout the state. They are people like you who participate in the Council's work and identify with its mission of fostering intellectual and cultural life in Michigan. Members' responsibilities include participation in three Council meetings annually at sites around the state as well as committee work on program evaluation, proposal review, planning, fundraising, advocacy for public humanities, liaison to projects and other public representation of the Council.
Members serve without pay but are reimbursed for travel expenses.
It was developed to reach rural audiences and small museums and libraries whose programming is constrained by cost and limited space. Supplemental funding for programming will permit these host organizations to collaborate with others in their communities to expand the educational impact of the exhibit, according to LuAnn Kern, assistant director of the Council. Watch for more information on these local venues in upcoming newsletters a nd on the Council's new Web Site. The Council will officially introduce its new program and funding guidelines for 1997-98 at a Program Planning and Grant Writing Workshop Feb. 5 in Lansing. It invites collaboration by a wide range of educational, cultural, civic and other community-based organizations around humanities topics as a means to mutually anticipate and prepare to meet the challenges of the coming century.