Oakton awarded $99,000 humanities grants

Oakton Community College is one of four community colleges nationwide to receive a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

"We are proud to be one of just four community colleges among the total of 208 recipients across the country to receive an NEH grant," Roxann Marshburn, director of grants and alternative funding, said in a news release.

"More importantly, the grant allows Oakton to expand upon its course offerings and student experiences."

The grant, worth $98,957 over 30 months, will fund "People, Place, and Purpose: Fostering an Understanding of a Complex World," an interdisciplinary collaboration to enhance the college's new environmental studies concentration.

Humanities Connections grants are intended to expand the role of the humanities in the undergraduate curriculum at two- and four-year institutions, and the grant will make possible the addition of two new courses.