Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Curriculum and Experiential Learning through National Parks | P18AS00609

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The Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Curriculum and Experiential Learning through National Parks opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number P18AS00609) is a National Park Service education project designed to use national park sites, especially battlefields, military parks, and other historic places tied to military service, as living classrooms for learning and dialogue. The idea is to connect the people who teach and serve in the military community with students and park professionals in the very landscapes where major parts of American military history unfolded. By doing that, the program aims to make military history more immediate, more meaningful, and more collaborative than a traditional classroom-only approach.

At the center of the project is experiential learning that brings together several groups at once: veterans who are also Junior ROTC instructors, university students, high school students in grades 9 through 12, and National Park Service personnel. Rather than treating these groups as separate audiences, the project is built around joint study and analysis of military history, with an emphasis on shared preparation and shared delivery of content. That means veterans and park staff are not just guest speakers or hosts; they are meant to play an active, hands-on role in mentoring, networking, and co-leading the learning experience alongside higher education and K-12 participants.

The opportunity grows out of prior work by Kutztown Universitys Frederick Douglass Institute, which found that the experiential model works better when veterans and park personnel have a more central role in the learning process. This project responds directly to that finding by emphasizing collaboration across communities in researching military history topics, preparing learning materials and discussions, and presenting or facilitating those topics on site in national park spaces. A key outcome is the exchange of perspectives, especially student perspectives, as students talk directly with veterans and park professionals about military history and what it means in the context of the countrys continuing effort to live up to ideals like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary cooperative agreement through the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, under CFDA 15.954. The award ceiling is $75,000, and the agency expected to make one award. Importantly, this notice is not an open competition: it is a notice of intent to partner with Kutztown University under an existing cooperative agreement, and no applications were to be accepted. The posting was created on August 29, 2018, and serves mainly to document the planned partnership and the purpose of the funded work rather than to solicit proposals from other organizations.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Curriculum and Experiential Learning through National Parks" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.954.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 29, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Notice of intent to partner with Kutztown University under existing cooperative agreement. No applications will be accepted.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $75,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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