ACTA’s 2019 ATHENA Roundtable featured speeches and panels with phenomenal higher education leaders, including Judge José Cabranes, University of Colorado Regent Heidi Ganahl, Sarah Lawrence College Professor Samuel Abrams, and former University of Texas...
Wallace Hall, Regent at the University of Texas, courageously flagged admissions corruption and malfeasance in the system as far back as 2011. He faced scathing criticism and censure before being fully vindicated years later....
Samuel Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College, underlines the problems of administrative bloat and threats to free expression on campus in this remarkable keynote address, delivered at ACTA’s ATHENA Roundtable on October 18, 2019.
2018 Philip Merrill Award Tribute Givers Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida (1997-2007) Charles Murray, author, and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Erskine Bowles, White House Chief of Staff (1997-1998) Nadine Strossen, President...
ACTA presented the Jerry L. Martin Prize for Excellence in College Trusteeship to Paul S. Levy, a former trustee at the University of Pennsylvania, for his steadfast commitment to protecting academic freedom. He was...
In April 2018, Paul S. Levy resigned as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and as an overseer of its law school, to protest the University’s treatment of law professor Amy Wax. Despite...
Hank Brown, former U.S. Senator and past president of the University of Colorado, shares why a robust and open exchange of opinions is crucial on college campuses.
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