The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, established in 1996 to enhance the humanities on campus, is in the process of accepting proposals from the faculty for its fall 2003 Visiting Collaborators' Program. The center is also seeking proposals for its instructional enhancement grants program.

The Baker-Nord Center will accept grant proposals through March 21 from faculty in the humanities, arts and social sciences for the collaborators program.

The same March 21 deadline applies to Baker-Nord's grants for the CWRU Undergraduate Instruction and Graduate Research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

Both award announcements will come April 4 for accepted proposals that are slated for Fall 2003 activities. "We hope that the grant programs in faculty visitors and undergraduate teaching initiated through the Baker-Nord Center will extend opportunities for student contact with an enhanced range of faculty expertise and provide novel learning experiences for undergraduates to complement what happens in the classroom," said Thomas Bishop, director of the Baker-Nord Center and associate professor of English.

The Baker-Nord Center will give faculty members up to $8,000 to bring in visitors through the collaborators' program for one- or two-week stays on campus. While visiting, the experts will engage in a variety of activities at different campus venues from the classroom to the lecture hall.

The instructional enhancement program will fund up to $1,000 for such activities as field trips, speakers or performers or special course materials to enhance classroom instructions in the humanities.

For more information, contact Bishop at 368-2371 or tgb2@po.cwru.edu or Timothy Beal from the religion department at 368-2221 or tkb5@po.cwru.edu.