campus partner(s)

Minnesota Humanities Center

state(s)

MN

amount

$250,000

initiative

Education for American Civic Life

award date

05.2022

project director

Trygve Throntveit

Grant Summary

$250,000 over 36 months to scale Third Way Civics to six sites in Minnesota. Third Way Civics teaches civic knowledge through primary sources and civic skills through classroom exercises. The Minnesota expansion will create a model for national growth through state humanities centers, develop the structure for national faculty training, and give a sophisticated civic education to 1,000 students.