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Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese served on ACTA’s Board of Directors for many years. We now continue to benefit from his wise guidance as Emeritus Director. November 2022, he graciously invited ACTA President...
In this episode, Steve McGuire, ACTA’s Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom, interviews Justin Dyer, executive director of the Civitas Institute, which was recently established at the University of Texas (UT)–Austin.
Washington, DC—On Thursday, June 2, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed H.B. 5001 into […]
ACTA's Doug Sprei interviews Paul Carrese, acclaimed founder of the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. Professor Carrese shares the underpinnings of this influential program, which aims to prepare the...
This past November, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) released the second edition of “No U.S. History? How College History Departments Leave the United States out of the Major.” Higher education donors...
Washington, DC—The Scala Foundation, founded by Princeton Theological Seminary professor Margarita Mooney Suarez, […]
Colleges like to claim that they provide students with a broad education, and, in the past, there was some truth to that. They used to require students to take general education courses that covered...
The word deplorable understates the status of civic education at American colleges and universities. But there are new initiatives to address it, some led by trustees, some by legislatures. Such changes are not without...
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