Joint Statement on Cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities
- On April 3, 2025, the ACLS, CGS, and Phi Beta Kappa released a statement in New York regarding the NEH.
- These organizations convened a commission in 1963 that identified a need for federal support of the humanities.
- The NEH, founded in 1965, supports community and scholarly life, costing less than a postage stamp per American.
- The organizations expressed deep concern over April 2 notices that cancelled NEH grants and reduced NEH staff.
- Cuts will deprive communities of resources, diminish teaching, and signal a turn away from civic values.
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Maine cultural organizations reeling from canceled grants, threats to funding
Letters were sent Thursday to recipients of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, telling them their grant awards were terminated.

Joint Statement on Cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities
NEW YORK, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- 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…
Staff and Funding Cuts at the NEH Loom
Exactly how many staff members and grants will be slashed from the National Endowment for the Humanities remains unclear, but prior cuts at the Education Department and National Institutes of Health offer a grim forecast. The Department of Government Efficiency has struck higher ed institutions once again—this time through the National Endowment for the Humanities. Leaders of the agency—which supports research, innovation and preservation in dis…
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