Where Have All the Funders Gone? How Big Philanthropy Left the Humanities Behind
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Where Have All the Funders Gone? How Big Philanthropy Left the Humanities Behind

Editors’ Note: Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch discuss the decline of U.S. philanthropic foundation support for the humanities in higher education, based on their book The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education (Johns Hopkins, 2021). And then there were none. As the millennium unfolded, humanists have watched as funders have deserted U.S. higher … Continue reading