ACTA Chief of Staff Armand Alacbay was appointed to the George Mason University Board of Visitors, bringing decades of governance expertise to his alma mater. ACTA’s recent surveys at Ohio State and UT–Austin reveal troubling trends of widespread student self-censorship and growing support for silencing campus speakers. In a major policy victory, Kansas passed the nation’s strongest donor intent law, empowering philanthropists to protect their gifts. ACTA also proudly recognized Dr. Carole Hooven as the 2023 Hero of Intellectual Freedom for her steadfast defense of academic truth at Harvard.
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In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison discuss the past, present, and future of academic freedom with David Rabban, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and author of the book Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right.
ACTA’s Hero of Intellectual Freedom award was presented to Pano Kanelos, Founding President of the University of Austin. Dr. Kanelos served as the inaugural president of UATX from 2021 to 2024 and then as chancellor until Fall 2025. Under his leadership, UATX devoted itself to showing how higher education can be rescued from the illiberalism […]
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