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Abigail Thompson, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of California-Davis, drew national attention in December 2019 with her Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “The University’s New Loyalty Oath.” Her bold challenge to the University of California’s...
WASHINGTON, DC – Dr. Abigail Thompson, chair of the mathematics department at the University […]
Could Albert Einstein get a job today at the University of California–Berkeley? Or Enrico Fermi, or Robert Oppenheimer, or John von Neumann? With the University of California’s (UC) experiments in diversity screening underway, the...
In “What Is Academic Freedom For?,” University of Chicago president Robert Zimmer says some things that need to be said—but is also silent some things that should not have been ignored. Zimmer is right...
WASHINGTON, DC—Robert David “KC” Johnson, professor of history at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, will receive the fifth annual Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education....
ACTA president Anne Neal participates in a moderated discussion on intellectual and ideological diversity with Penn State University professor Michael Bérubé at the annual convention of the National Communication Association. Click here for audio.
John M. Ellis is professor emeritus of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and president of the California Association of Scholars. He is a founder and former governing council member of the...
ACTA president Anne D. Neal speaks at an AEI conference on the role of alumni and trustees.
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