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April 7, 2025
Joint Statement on Cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities
The ASA has signed onto this joint statement:
(Original here.)
The American Council of Learned Societies, the Council of Graduate Schools, and The Phi Beta Kappa Society are deeply concerned by the April 2 notices cancelling grants made by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and by the reported plans to dramatically reduce its staff. As the organizations who played a critical role in helping to establish the nation’s cultural endowments, we urge the administration to reconsider this direction and ask Congress ...(Read more)
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