campus partner(s)

Kent State University

state(s)

OH

amount

$250,000

initiative

Knowledge for Freedom

award date

11.2023

project director

Mark Bracher; Sonya Williams

Grant Summary

$250,000 over 42 months to implement Liberation Learners, a Knowledge for Freedom program that will give promising underserved high school seniors from Northeast Ohio an opportunity to participate in a three-week humanities seminar and a school-year college support and civic engagement program. Through the seminar, students will read transformative texts focused on the relationship between freedom and responsibility. Liberation Learners will be Kent State’s signature pathway to college program focusing on the humanities.