An Update on NEH Funding Priorities and the Agency’s Recent Implementation of Trump Administration Executive Orders

Excerpt:  “In recent weeks the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has taken several internal operational steps to improve efficiency, eliminate offices that are not essential to fulfilling its statutory requirements, and to return to being a responsible steward of taxpayer funds. NEH has also taken programmatic steps to ensure that all future awards will, among other things, be merit-based, awarded to projects that do not promote extreme ideologies based upon race or gender, and that help to instill an understanding of the founding principles and ideals that make America an exceptional country. For these reasons, NEH is releasing the following statement of its priorities along with answers that are relevant to questions that the public may have. …”