Amid widespread budget deficits, several top universities have suspended admissions to their art history graduate programs or cut the size of the cohorts they will admit, along with modifications to other humanities concentrations. Boston University, the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and Princeton University are among those institutions seeing changes. The cutbacks come in the context of a widely discussed crisis in higher education. Philadelphia-based public radio station WHYY reported in November that both public and private colleges and universities are facing “enormous challenges,” including declines in state and federal funding, reductions in the numbers of foreign students owing to the Trump administration’s immigration policies, and a sharp decline in the number of college-aged students due to demographic trends. Related Articles Humanities programs at numerous universities are facing cutbacks. In one particularly notable example, Syracuse University in Upstate New York paused admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine art and digital humanities, while launching a new Center for the Creator Economy, which will support podcasters, streamers, and influencers. The changes to humanities programs also come …