Our panel, "Funding History Faculty 
Research in the Twenty-First Century:  Public, Private/Internal, External," 
will address the question raised in point six of the Conference Call, 
namely, how humanities faculty can cooperate with museums, historical 
societies, humanities councils, and libraries.

Our panel will discuss issues such as: Should we be funding content or 
access to technology?   What criteria do we use to judge funding requests 
that feature technology?  How should agencies  increase their technological 
prowess to support history and the humanities, e.g., should they be 
technological resources for teachers or maintain a focus on traditional 
topics such as reading and critical reasoning?  Where do funders, who may 
not be current with technology, turn to for help in discerning what 
technology is important and appropriate for humanities teaching?  How 
should colleges allocate money internally for technology and scholarship?