ACTA in the NewsCivil Discourse
The protesters who blocked the car of Cornell’s president, Michael Kotlikoff, on April 30 seemed intent on gaining victim status. Despite all reasonable care on the president’s part, one was slightly bumped, prompting a...
ACTA in the NewsCivil Discourse
During their meetings on Wednesday and Thursday, the UNC System Board of Governors discussed universities’ increasing debt capacities and a proposed medical school at UNC-Wilmington. They also heard updates on system wide civic discourse...
Mohsen Mahdawi arrived for an interview with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, VT., on April 14 of last year with dreams of becoming an American citizen. Instead, he left...
The College Debates and Discourse Alliance closed out 2025 with its most robust roster of campus and classroom events to date. During the Fall semester, our team members were constantly on the road, leading...
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...
Over the last two decades, negative views of the opposing party have become increasingly widespread. According to research conducted by Pew Research Center, in 1994, fewer than a quarter of Republicans and fewer than...
In the inaugural edition of this newsletter, readers were introduced to Dr. David […]
Dubbed “Washington’s School for Civil Discourse,” George Mason University’s (GMU) Antonin Scalia Law School exposes students to all legal and political viewpoints and leads them in civil, respectful debate. In this episode of Higher Ed Now, ACTA’s...
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