Tusculum College Professor Katie Hoffman Doman attended Ferrum College's second National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers during 2004.

From a range of disciplines and at both campus and community locations, the Institute examined Appalachian issues that link regional study to the liberal arts. Doman, who has a long history of interest in Appalachian matters, literature and music, participated with others representing many regions of the country, Appalachia and beyond. The 25 teachers selected for the NEH Summer Institute, "Regional Study and the Liberal Arts: Appalachia Up Close," received stipends.

The NEH institute at Ferrum joined faculty members from throughout the United States to pursue opportunities in liberal arts learning that regional study provides. The first part of the institute brought to the Ferrum campus nationally-known authors such as Robert Morgan, Lee Smith, Altina Waller, Crandall Shifflett, and Anita Puckett, whose fiction and research focuses on Appalachia. The second part focused on Caretta, West Virginia, where institute scholars did community-centered projects such as interviewing black coal miners, reproducing and displaying community photos, and constructing a Web site for the local community action center.

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