| Outreach
and Service Committee
 The
Outreach Committee is responsible for two areas:
- developing a plan for the public programming outreach
designed to reach the broadest possible audience through
innovative techniques, and
- developing a plan to promote cultural tourism and increase
humanities content in regional tourism
Public Planning Outreach:
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The
committee will place emphasis on democratic dissemination
of information and outreach to traditionally under-served
audiences, e.g.,
minorities and the poor. |
The committee will inventory and identify best practices for
public programming outreach by surveying current practices of
humanities organizations, museums, archives, libraries, and
educational and cultural institutions. The committee will create
a "best practices" inventory which will be the basis
for a report to the center and an outreach workplan for the
first operating year. The committee will also survey techniques
for innovative media outreach, and develop a media strategy plan
and outreach protocols for the center, including a database of
regional media contacts. The committee will place emphasis on
democratic dissemination of information and outreach to
traditionally under-served audiences e.g. minorities and the
poor.
Cultural Tourism:
The committee will survey and identify best practices in
cultural tourism by consulting with state humanities councils,
and government and business tourism agencies. The committee will
also engage representatives from the region to identify
resources and methods for using these existing resources. These
consultations, along with an inventory of Internet-based
resources, will lay the groundwork for a report and a strategic
plan for promoting cultural tourism.
The outreach committee is particularly interested in
successful models for infusing regional humanities studies into
current tourism activities, as well as developing the Center’s
own cultural tourism programming. The committee’s work will
culminate in an outline for the outreach component of the final
NEH proposal, and an outreach strategic plan for the Center’s
first operating year.
We encourage your suggestions about outreach methods and
possible collaborations with other organizations in the region.
Contact:
Lance
Hill, Committee Chair
Southern Institute for Education and Research
MR Box 1692
31 McAlister Drive
New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 865-6100 ext. 2
Fax (504)862-8957
lhill@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
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