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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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For the good of the Nation, university leadership must seize this occasion to drive essential reforms—a process some began by adopting positions of institutional neutrality and improving policies related to campus protests. Before the end of 2026, I call on every postsecondary institution to describe to the American public your commitments to rigorous teaching, pathbreaking research, and national service—commitments that make our universities a bedrock institution of the American republic.
Now the administration is back with Compact 2.0, formally titled "A National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards." It includes some rhetorical flourishes intended to make it seem less threatening to teaching, learning and research. But make no mistake: It once again asks colleges and universities to align themselves with a far-right agenda at the expense of students’ education and the public’s well-being.
