Community Impact reports that a nearly $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities has been awarded to Lone Star College-Online to transform its U.S. History curriculum.
The $148,594 grant is one of just a few humanities grants that are given to community colleges.
The three-year project, led by Professor Chris Davis, will introduce thematic tracks with popular U.S. History survey courses. These thematic tracks allow students to specialize in subfields that line up with their interests and goals.
On the grant, Professor Davis collaborated with colleagues from other campuses along with external contacts from Texas Southern University and San Jacinto College.
He says there are various modules and differing assignments that students can self select. He passed along an example that “nursing students or healthcare professionals might want to look at U.S. History through the lens of health and medicine, focusing more on pandemics and vaccines and how they have informed the subject while still covering the basics.”
The project should get underway in the 2025-26 academic year. The following year, a larger pilot is planned.
