Cohort activities & post-cohort opportunities

During the DHI-B cohort year

Cohort activities will run roughly from March through December 2019 and will tentatively include the following:

• March-April 2019
  • Cohort community-building through project sharing and introductions
  • Webinars on topics related to the cohort’s projects and interests
  • Online consultations with AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Programs Member Coordinator
• May 2019
  • At DHI-B: Cohort-focused elements of DHI-B
• May-November 2019
  • Mid-year reporting on project status, including requests for training & consultation
  • Webinars on topics related to the cohort’s projects and interests
  • Online consultations with AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Programs Member Coordinator and invited experts (the Cohort Organizers will work with teams to identify and match consultants most appropriate to their project)
• December 2019
  • Final reporting on projects, including recommendations for shaping related future AMICAL programs

After the DHI-B cohort

Starting around the end of the cohort year, participants will be be particularly well-placed to benefit from the following opportunities, sponsored by AMICAL:

• Course-Integrated Digital Collaborations: during the DHI-B workshops and cohort meetings, cohort participants will be exposed to a variety of possible avenues being planned for building liberal arts course-based connections across AMICAL institutions through digital projects and methods. Over the next few years, AMICAL will be providing training and support for these Course-Integrated Digital Collaborations, and cohort participants will be among those best-prepared to participate, and prioritized for acceptance, in these future initiatives.
• Small Grants for projects: projects whose planning has been successfully advanced through participation in the cohort could receive prioritized reviewing if Small Grant funding is required to get the project over a critical threshold.
• Small Grants for staff exchanges: teams from different institutions, but with common goals or challenges, may develop plans for a site visit between some of their members, for joint meetings with critical stakeholders, sharing of invited consultants, or other actions expected to produce substantive outcomes. Teams whose goals were successfully advanced through participation in the cohort could receive prioritized reviewing.
• On-site consultation and training: in addition to consultation as part of their cohort participation, successful cohort participants will be given priority in their requests for on-site consultation and training supporting their project, or supporting other DH or digital liberal arts initiatives on which they are working, that are of broad impact across the institution. Onsite consultation and training would be provided by AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Mellon Fellow (from Fall 2019) and/or AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Programs Member Coordinator.