#funding-crisis

#funding-crisis

After a year that has tested the resiliency of a centuries-old sector, ideas for reinvention have emerged. Most agree that higher ed is in a moment of crisis, but few agree on what exactly is the cause.

Every community relies on infrastructure - roads, power grids, water systems. Public media is no different. We've spent decades building one of the most remarkable content networks in the world: a constellation of local newsrooms, national shows, and independent creators. But it rests on infrastructure built for a different era: satellite distribution, analog assumptions, fragmented digital tools, FM carve-outs, and a thicket of vendor relationships that favor scale and capital over mission.

More than 11 million refugees risk losing access to humanitarian aid owing to a dramatic funding crisis, according to the United Nations refugee agency.

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet.

"With service that supports Texas' continued economic growth and the region's connectivity, sustaining the Heartland Flyer is essential to maintaining momentum and ensuring long term mobility in the region."

We've got this position which we have inherited, which we believe to be our divine right—it's not, she said. You have to work to maintain it.

Funds allocated for the whole of 2025 have already been almost entirely used up.

California Humanities CEO Rick Noguchi stated that funding was terminated unexpectedly as NEH redirects allocations under the President's agenda, impacting grant payments to grantees.