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fromNextgov.com
2 months ago

Inside DOGE's early days of pressure campaigns, rule breaking and 'chaos'

DOGE officials pressured NEH leadership to terminate approximately 1,400 grants and lay off two-thirds of its workforce, with depositions revealing questionable justifications for cancellations labeled as DEI elimination.
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fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

Former DOGE staffer says ChatGPT helped feds cancel grants mentioning 'LGBTQ+'

A Trump administration staffer testified that NEH humanities grants were flagged for cancellation based solely on LGBTQ+ terminology appearing in project descriptions, revealing systematic targeting of diversity-related scholarship.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

What $1 Million of Anti-Racist Leadership Training Buys You

My reporting charts the changes the foundation has undergone since 2018, when Elizabeth Alexander, a noted poet, became its president. The nonprofit has become more and more openly political; in 2020, Alexander declared that Mellon would prioritize 'social justice in all of its grantmaking' going forward. Because Mellon is the country's largest humanities funder by several orders of magnitude, larger even than the federal government, this new direction has
Higher education
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