TY - JOUR TI - Recent Trends in Funding for the Academic Humanities and Their Implications AU - Zuckerman, Harriet AU - Ehrenberg, Ronald T2 - Daedalus AB - [Excerpt] Never abundant, financial support for the "academic humanities" is now scarce. How scarce it is, both in absolute and relative terms, and whether the humanities now confront particularly hard times, are the pressing questions. To piece together an answer, we ask first how much the government, foundations, and private donors provide for the humanities now compared to estimates John D'Arms made in 1995, when he completed his important review of "funding trends." Then we probe expenditures universities and colleges make on the humanities. Is there evidence, for example, in institutional budget allocations that the humanities are holding their own, or have rising costs of other academic activities, such as scientific research, been accompanied by reduced support for the humanities? And last, because public universities are so large and numerous, and because many operate on conspicuously tight budgets, we ask how well the humanities in this class of institutions have fared in comparison with their counterparts at private universities. DA - 2009/// PY - 2009 DP - ZoteroBib VL - 138 IS - 1 SP - 124 EP - 146 LA - en UR - https://www.amacad.org/publication/recent-trends-funding-humanities DB - DigitalCommons@ILR Y2 - 2020/06/16/07:15:46 KW - Humanities KW - Humanities foundations KW - Humanities funding KW - Humanities government agencies ER -