Mr. Chisholm is a member of the MIT Free Speech Alliance, and was previously a member of the MIT Corporation (or board of trustees). He has four decades of experience as entrepreneur, CEO, and investor, having founded and served as Chairman/CEO of Decisive Technology (now part of Google), and of CustomerSat (now part of FocusVision), a leading provider of enterprise feedback management systems. These days he heads up John Chisholm Ventures, a San Francisco-based entrepreneurship advisory and investment firm. He is the author of Unleash Your Inner Company: 10 Steps to Discover, Launch, and Scale Your Ideal Business.
ACTA’s former VP of Academic Affairs, Jonathan Pidluzny, interviews business leader John Dana Chisholm about the concept of holistic diversity and its potential to influence higher education policy.
Higher Ed Now delves into issues of merit, fairness and equality, academic freedom, and more with Dorian Abbot, associate professor in the department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. It’s well known that Dr. Abbot was invited last year to give the prestigious Carlson Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—and then, in September, he was disinvited by MIT after a group of activists launched an online cancellation campaign against him.
ACTA’s president Michael Poliakoff is joined by Chuck Davis, the newly elected chair and president of the Alumni Free Speech Alliance.
In recent days, the University of Michigan has been rocked by a series of public controversies. On Wednesday, January 19, 2022, the university announced it would pay $490 million to compensate more than a thousand victims of a decades-long sexual abuse scandal, reportedly among the largest agreements ever reached by an American university. Less than […]
Last week, the North Dakota House of Representatives passed HB 1446, creating a pilot program which would provide for post-tenure review of faculty members at two universities. The bill will now head to the Senate. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has long held that tenure reform, if done well, will play a […]
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