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What Is the Mellon Foundation Doing to Higher Education? - The Atlantic

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Is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation the last best hope for American arts and letters—or is it killing them?

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 37:24 In 1964, an influential report identified a disquieting trend in academia. “Increasingly during the past few years,” it began, “concern has been expressed about the condition, in this country, of those fields of intellectual activity generally called the humanities.” The 200-plus-page document was a publication of the National Commission on the Humanities, which had been established the previous year. Reading the commission’s findings six decades later, one could reasonably conclude that what today gets called the “crisis of the humanities” is not so much a dis

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