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National Endowment for the Humanities Renews Funding for Bicultural Summer Institute at UTSA For the second consecutive year, the University of Texas at San Antonio has received National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funding for a unique summer institute that will immerse 28 secondary teachers in bicultural literature for a month. The NEH Division of Research and Education Programs awarded $170,000 to UTSA to renew Derrumbando Fronteras/Breaking Boundaries: Summer Institute for Integrating Mexican American and Latino Literatures and Culture into the Secondary Curriculum. During its debut last year, the program drew more than 500 applicants nationwide for just 25 available fellowships reserved for middle and high school teachers. Based at the UTSA Downtown Campus, the intensive four-week program is designed to help teachers from across the nation revamp curricula to be more inclusive of the Latino experience. It promises a provocative exploration of Mexican American and Latino literatures using a combination of traditional classroom exchanges and high-tech tools. According to co-director Ellen Riojas Clark, who is an associate professor of bicultural bilingual studies, the UTSA program will be one of a limited number of NEH-funded summer institutes during 2001, and it is the only one to focus on the literature and culture of U. S. Latinos. "The successful renewal of the institute promises to help consolidate UTSA's growing national reputation as a premier location for Latino and multicultural teacher education training," Clark added. In addition to Clark, other institute co-directors are Assistant Professors of English, Classics, Philosophy and Communication Louis Mendoza and Ben V. Olguin. Dates for the 2001 institute will be June 24 to July 22. Send
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