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Dr. Dorian Abbot
Professor Abbot was the focus of a highly publicized cancellation in October 2021 when MIT administrators canceled...
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Alumni | Intellectual Diversity
Reforming the Politically Correct University
November 1, 2007 by Anne D. Neal Download PDF
ACTA president Anne D. Neal speaks at an AEI conference on the role of alumni and trustees.
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Doug Sprei: Vice President of Multimedia & Campus Partnerships at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni
As Vice President of Multimedia & Campus Partnerships, Doug advances ACTA’s messaging and digital media presence for our core audiences focused on issues of academic freedom, excellence...
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Diversity Done Right
In October 2022, ACTA's ATHENA Roundtable Conference in Washington, DC was highlighted by two panels featuring extraordinary higher education thought leaders. Today we present the first of those panels – headlined as DIVERSITY DONE RIGHT, and hosted by our good friend Jonathan Rauch – Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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Yet Once More: Political Correctness on Campus
Sometimes the stars seem to come into alignment. Just as I was getting ready to write a column (this column) on a new documentary about free speech and political correctness on campus, the film’s producer and director, Evan Coyne Maloney, made news of another, but related, kind. According to the New York Post of Oct. […]
ACTA in the NewsFreedom of Expression
Can States Monitor Political Bias on Campus?
At journalism school I flunked my class in “Trends: How to Identify Them, How to Invent Them.” So I’m not qualified to peg what follows as a genuine social or cultural trend. But it’s happened in four state legislatures already. And we can always hope. Most recently it’s been percolating in Missouri, where Representative Jane […]
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Legislatures fight college political bias
Christian DeJohn returned from a National Guard tour in Bosnia only to fight his own war with academics at Temple University, who he says, have delayed approval of his master’s thesis because of political conflicts in the classroom. His case is just one in a national debate fueled by allegations that some liberal professors are […]
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