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Causes: Adult Education, Arts & Culture, Education, Graduate & Professional Schools, Humanities
Mission: The dallas institute of humanities and culture is a nonprofit educational organization whose purpose is to enrich and deepen the practical life of the city with the wisdom and imagination of the humanities. The institute accomplishes its mission through events, conferences, and general courses of study for our community, through professional programs for educators, and through publications.
Programs: Cowan center/the teacher's academy: year-round classes, conferences, and special events to strengthen school teachers and encourage retention in the field. Offers school teachers in all disciplines a transforming encounter with the major literary classics underlying world culture. The academy creates a strong community of teachers that possess authority in their classrooms and have deeply influenced tens of thousands of young students.
festival of ideas: the festival of ideas mission is to help shape the city of the future by igniting, uniting, and energizing the people of dallas through the power of ideas. The vision of the festival is to be the leading ideas festival in the nation that fosters and executes action, creating a lasting legacy for the city of dallas and its citizens.
general studies: classes and events for diverse groups of adults, enriching the lives of participants through the study of humanities.