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ACTA presented our 18th annual Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education to Professor Alan Charles Kors.
ACTA presented our 18th annual Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education to Professor Alan Charles Kors.
Free Expression and the Task of American Colleges and Universities There are certain truths of American political life that antedate even the Founding and are as important for our age as they were for...
Five organizations have filed amicus briefs supporting a lawsuit filed by a free speech nonprofit over “unconstitutional” free speech policies at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Speech First sued the university in May over initiatives...
Washington, DC – The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) and the […]
Today’s colleges seem to be dominated by identity politics and progressive calls for more “diversity” and heightened attention to sustainability efforts. Surveys show that the already strong leftish orientation among faculty has strengthened over...
A nonprofit that sued the University of Texas for allegedly violating students’ rights to free speech is appealing a federal judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit. Speech First Inc., a Washington D.C.-based group that...
Speech First launched the first public interest litigation project against campus bias response teams, and […]
Washington, DC – The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) filed an […]
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