American foundations [usma?S american foundations program was established in january of 2023 under the leadership of DR

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $5.6 million to the Association of The Graduates of The United States Military Academy on June 1, 2026, under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130).

The funding supports the American Foundations Program at the United States Military Academy, established in January 2023 under the leadership of Dr. Hugh Liebert and Dr. Rob McDonald. The program offers an academic minor rooted in the humanities that enables cadets to study America's founding principles in depth and creates an interdisciplinary community of cadets and faculty to enrich institutional understanding and appreciation of the American Founding and the Constitution. The program addresses the limited constitutional knowledge many cadets possess despite their culminating oath to support and defend the Constitution.

The award period runs from June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2029, with performance taking place in New York. As a Challenge Grant, the funding operates as federal matching funds contingent on the recipient raising non-federal gifts certified over the period of performance. Once the required matching amount is raised and certified, the recipient will establish a term endowment to spend income advancing the humanities work at the organization.

Hugh liebert and DR. ROB mcdonald (see attachment 4: biographies of key personnel). The program offers an academic minor rooted in the humanities that allows cadets tostudy america?S founding principles in depth. More broadly, the program creates an interdisciplinary community of cadets and faculty who enrich usma?S understanding and appreciation of the american founding and the constitution. Cadets have a distinct relationship to the american founding, as their education culminates in an oath to ?support and defend the constitution of the united states.? Yet many cadets, like many americans, possess only a limited knowledge of the constitution, the contexts from which IT emerged, and the specific features of the democratic republic.]