The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced termination notices for 65% of its employees, significantly affecting its ability to fund educational grants. This decision follows a leadership change and the termination of over 1,000 grants that supported research projects at various universities. Experts believe the cuts will adversely affect higher education and disproportionately impact rural communities reliant on humanities programs. The American Association of Colleges and Universities criticized the administration's actions, highlighting the importance of the NEH in making the humanities accessible and fostering scholarly research.
The administration's actions target a vital agency that, although relatively small and chronically underfunded, has for the past sixty years made the humanities accessible to all Americans and supported cutting-edge research and scholarship.
The draconian cuts to NEH programs and staffing will ripple across American life-cultural, educational, historical, and economic-and they will negatively affect teaching and learning, scholarship and research.
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