Overview
- Three $10 million awards went to UNC–Chapel Hill’s School of Civic Life and Leadership, UT Austin’s School of Civic Leadership, and the Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education, which is based at the Witherspoon Institute.
- UNC said its award includes a $10 million matching grant plus $100,000 in direct funding to endow eight professorships and expand undergraduate, graduate, and K–12 civic education programs.
- UT Austin said its grant will fund 16 faculty positions and proposed undergraduate majors in Strategy and Statecraft and Great Books, with launch contingent on state approval.
- News reports, citing unnamed sources, said many of the largest awards were noncompetitive; NEH and the White House did not comment as critics raised concerns following last year’s council firings and attempted grant cancellations later blocked in court.
- Other notable grants include $5.6 million for West Point’s American Foundations program, $5 million for Ohio State’s Salmon P. Chase Center, $2.2 million for the Museum of the American Revolution, $2 million for Grand Central Atelier, and more than $2 million for the Abigail Adams Institute.