ACTA’s Hero of Intellectual Freedom award was presented to Roland G. Fryer, Jr., professor of economics at Harvard University. Called “the most gifted economist of his generation,” his scholarship on inequality, police use of force, and the academic achievement gap is characterized by an uncompromising adherence to data. Professor Fryer is calling higher education back to its once central and sacred foundation—that to uncover the truth, intellectual assumptions must be met with an open mind and subjected to rigorous analysis. Ian Rowe, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, delivered the tribute to Dr. Fryer.
Fall is a wonderful time at Furman University. Friends are reuniting after a summer apart. The mall is teeming with football tailgates. The leaves are just beginning to turn. All on one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country. It should be an ideal place to learn and grow.
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