SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The National Council on the Humanities is meeting pursuant to the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951-960, as amended).

The following Committees of the National Council on the Humanities will convene by videoconference on July 17, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. ET, to discuss specific grant applications and programs before the Council:

Federal/State Partnership;

Preservation and Access;

Public Programs; and

Research Programs.

The Education Programs Committee of the National Council on the Humanities will convene by videoconference on July 17, 2025, from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. ET, to discuss specific grant applications and programs before the Council.

The National Council will then convene in executive session by videoconference on July 17, 2025, from 3:00 p.m. ET until adjourned.

The plenary session of the National Council on the Humanities will convene by videoconference on July 18, 2025, from 1:00 p.m. ET until adjourned. The agenda for the plenary session will be as follows:

A. Minutes of Previous Meeting

B. Reports

1. Acting Chairman's Remarks

2. Actions on Requests for Chair's Grants and Supplemental Funding

3. Actions on Previously Considered Applications

C. Education Programs

D. Federal/State Partnership

E. Preservation and Access

F. Public Programs

G. Research Programs

This meeting of the National Council on the Humanities will be closed to the public pursuant to sections 552b(c)(4), 552b(c)(6), and 552b(c)(9)(B) of Title 5 U.S.C., as amended, because it will include review of personal and/or proprietary financial and commercial information given in confidence to the agency by grant applicants, and discussion of certain information, the premature disclosure of which could significantly frustrate implementation of proposed agency action. I have made this determination pursuant to the authority granted to me by the Chair's Delegation of Authority to Close Advisory Committee Meetings dated April 15, 2016.

90 FR 27348