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"A Broadside for the Nation", assembled by ACTA’s National Commission on American History and Civic Education, makes the case for higher ed to restore a required course in US history and government in order to graduate - as well as how to make this vision a reality.
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This should be quite the discussion on institutional leadership on free expression our friends at @goACTA are hosting, moderated by @sfmcguire79, and we're all invited!
General info here:
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Registration:
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VIDEO PODCAST: Justin Garrison explains that while democracies must tolerate vehement disagreement, there has to be a shared respect for democratic government - something lacking in protest movements on and off-campus.
Watch the full episode of Radio Free Campus on Youtube: youtu.be/nayO20DhgQ4
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After surveying over 60 colleges universities on their free expression policies, ACTA's Campus Freedom Initiative has finally found a school that scores a perfect 20/20 on our Gold Standard for Free Expression.
It's in North Carolina.
goacta.org/campus-freedom-in…
American Council of Trustees and Alumni retweeted
Accreditation standards were saturated with DEI for years, and the AAUP was fine with it.
The one kind of diversity they can’t stand is diversity of ideas.
📹 "These people just completely lack any sense of decency."
On Radio Free Campus, ACTA's @sfmcguire79 explains that the October 7 anti-Israel protests can only be on that date for one reason: to hurt Jews and Israelis on campus.
American Council of Trustees and Alumni retweeted
One of my favorite recent genres is leftist professors discovering, as if for the first time, that DEI offices are in fact bad for free speech.
Penn State will likely cut 47 low-enrollment undergraduate programs soon.
The main campus alone will lose programs like geosciences, elementary and kindergarten education, and astronomy.
highereddive.com/news/penn-s…
"American universities—especially those that receive hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars—have a duty to prioritize the needs of America."
Fantastic new piece from Solveig.
Elite schools and universities: stop worrying about creating "global citizens" and start worrying about creating American ones.
My latest Substack: thesolveiggoldstandard.subst…
Legendary historian (and member of ACTA's National Commission on American History and Civic Education) Wilfred McClay praises Marco Rubio's speech on Western civilization - but notes that the roots of the West grow not just from Athens but Jerusalem too.
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Ilya is a great scholar who stood his ground after being unjustly persecuted by Georgetown. ACTA is proud to consider him a friend of the organization.
4 in 5 social studies teachers say they can't teach civics - because they don't know enough about civics to teach it. But how did we get here?
On Higher Ed Now, Judge Douglas Ginsburg explains his theory for the collapse of civics education in the US:
Listen to the full episode of Higher Ed Now on Spotify:
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Judge Douglas Ginsburg and ACTA President Michael Poliakoff discuss the essential reading list: from the Federalist Papers to Letter from Birmingham Jail, the bare necessities for informed citizenship must be taught to every single American college student.
Listen to the full episode of Higher Ed Now on Apple Podcasts:
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On Higher Ed Now, Judge Douglas Ginsburg argues that since slavery was legal everywhere on Earth in the 1780s, it's unrealistic to expect the Founders to have called for immediate abolition. Even today, slavery remains a serious problem in parts of the world.
Listen to Judge Ginsburg's appearance on Higher Ed Now:
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ACTA Senior Vice President Armand Alacbay was interviewed by Spectrum News yesterday on the serious allegations against former Bard College president Leon Botstein. He stresses the importance of a board establishing and maintaining a culture of accountability.
Learn more about the Bard College scandal: spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/ce…
