Last year, colleges awarded fewer bachelor's degrees in the humanities than any time since 1991, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences found.
The fate of bipartisan bills is in doubt at the congressional level, while state-level proposals have stalled in the legislatures.
But amid higher education's progress, conference rooms still mostly sit empty, per an analysis from Occuspace.
Tuesday's vote follows more than a year of attacks by the Trump administration on the legal organization and its diversity work.