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Stipend
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Teachers selected to participate in four-week projects will receive $3,300. Stipends are intended to help cover travel expenses to and from the project location, books and other research expenses, and living expenses for the duration of the period spent in residence. Stipends are taxable. Applicants to all projects, especially those held abroad, should note that supplements will not be given in cases where the stipend is insufficient to cover all expenses.
The value of the dollar and your choices regarding housing and meals may mean that you will need to supplement the costs of participating with your own funds. Also note that while NEH neither encourages nor discourages family members traveling with the participant, all costs for family members must be borne personally.
NEH does not allow us to send you any money prior to your arrival in Mexico. To avoid problems with cashing checks in US dollars in Oaxaca, our plan is to prepare automatic deposits to participants’ personal bank accounts: the first ($1500) would be authorized upon your arrival (July 11) and the second (also for $1500) with be authorized for transfer the last day the Institute. We will withhold $300 USD to cover the costs of excursions, admissions, and other instructional expenses we encounter. Any balance remaining after the last day will be sent to your home address within two weeks of the end of the Institute.
Automatic deposits to your account will require close coordination with us in the months immediately preceding the Institute and anyone who would prefer to to receive an actual check in Oaxaca or have it sent to your home for a family member or friend to deposit may elect to do so.
Tenure
Seminar and institute participants are required to attend all meetings and to engage fully in the work of the project. During the project’s tenure, they may not undertake teaching assignments or any other professional activities unrelated to their participation in the project. Participants who, for any reason, do not complete the full tenure of the project must refund a pro-rata portion of the stipend.
Conditions of Award
At the end of the project’s residential period, participants will be asked to submit online evaluations in which they review their work during the summer and assess its value to their personal and professional development. These evaluations will become part of the project’s grant file and may become part of an application to repeat the seminar or institute.
