The National Endowment for the Humanities: Caught in the collision of politics and budgetary restraint

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The National Endowment for the Humanities: Caught in the collision of politics and budgetary restraint

The Hill, D.C. "Congress" Blog - Opinion Piece

July 18, 2012

David J. Skorton, president, Cornell University, writes: In politics, as on highways, innocent bystanders are sometimes victims of collisions. The annual budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities is neither the cause of nor the solution to the nation’s fiscal problems. But once again it may become a casualty of the determination of legislators - on both sides of the aisle - to show they are serious about reducing the federal budget. What losses, for our nation and for our communities, further reductions of the NEH budget would entail!

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