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President Trumps proposal to slash funding for federal arts endowments may have consequences for video games. The types of federally-funded education and social change-related games projects that have received grants in the past may need to scale down or search for other funding channels.
Nothing is being cut just yet, but the Presidents proposed 2018 budget first reported in major outlets yesterday calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and The National Endowment for the Humanities, an unprecedented move in their 50-year history. The endowments run off $300 million annually, a pittance compared to the total $1.1 trillion federal budget.
The NEH has invested $1.8 million in games. By my count, since 1998, the NEA has funded at least 34 grants that mention video games, encompassing over a hundred thousand dollars allocated to schools incubating game design projects. Public colleges that may not have designated funding for game design students apply for these federal grants. For example, over the last three years, The Virginia Commonwealth University, which does not have a dedicated game design major, received about $45,000 in funding from the NEA for their Learning from Digital Game Design program and Currentlab Game Design Institute, a professional development workshop.
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