ACTA will present the 2017 Merrill Award to University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer for championing free expression. We’ve released Bold Leadership, Real Reform 2.0, a guide for trustees advancing innovation and cost control. ACTA also highlights threats to academic standards in athletics and free speech concerns tied to the BDS movement. Speeches by past Merrill honorees Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Niall Ferguson are now in print.
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PodcastsInstitutional Neutrality
In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison analyze a new policy on teaching controversial topics in the University of Texas System. The podcast hosts also discuss what a new survey from Gallup/Lumina reveals about student free speech experiences on their campuses. Steve and Justin also debate an article from Inside Higher Ed that provides a Rawlsian defense of institutional neutrality. The show hosts also announce the University of Wyoming as this episode’s “Hero of the People” and a professor from Stanford University as RFC’s “Apparatchik of the Month.”
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