Efforts to cut federal funding for the humanities and the arts are anything but new; funding for the NEH has had a series of peaks and valleys, rising to roughly $150 million a year in the late 1970s, falling some during the 1980s, rising to roughly $170 million annually during the early 1990s, dropping sharply (to $110 million) in the mid-1990s, and then settling back in the $150-million-a-year range since then… “The NEH’s programs are preparing people to play critical roles in what’s happening in our society in the 21st century, whether it’s analysts in our intelligence agencies or people who drive innovation in our companies. If the NEH’s programs are not going in the direction that people want, let’s debate those programs, let’s debate those directions. Let’s not gut those programs.”

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by Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed.

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