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Ryan Quinn
Inside Higher Ed
The National Endowment for the Humanities—after losing in court over the termination of more than 1,400 grants, totaling over $100 million—began offering this month to reinstate those awards.
But first, the agency has a basic question for the grant recipients it previously cut off: “Do you want NEH to reinstate this award?” “Evaluate your organization’s intent and capacity to determine whether you want to resume the project,” the agency says on its website, in a step-by-step explanation telling organizations and individuals how to fill out the “Reinstatement Assurances Form” to revive their grants.
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Women’s and gender studies departments have been some of the most embattled on campuses in recent years, with the problems plaguing this field being emblematic of the viewpoint diversity crisis in social-oriented disciplines.
Dozens of organizations have cropped up promising to foster “civic discourse”, “dialogue across difference” and “viewpoint diversity”. Together, they make up a fast-growing ecosystem that has ballooned, by some estimates, into a $200m a year business some skeptics have billed the “civility industrial complex”.
Just 10 years ago, almost 60 percent of Americans said they had a lot of confidence in higher education. By last year, that number had fallen to 42 percent. Seventy percent of Americans told Pew last fall that higher education is moving in the wrong direction.
