Ryan Bangert: The Arc of Religious Liberty in American History
ACTA President Michael Poliakoff welcomes Ryan Bangert , Senior Vice President at the Alliance Defending Freedom and Visiting Instructor in...
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Higher Ed Now
Higher Ed Now is a production of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. It is a podcast concerning issues and policy in America's higher education system.
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20 of 110 episodesStephen Trachtenberg: A University President's Guide to Rebuilding the American Story
ACTA President Michael Poliakoff welcomes Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president emeritus of George Washington University and member of AC...
H.R. McMaster & John Hillen: Teaching Military History Reveals America's Complexity and Character
On this episode of Higher Ed Now Civics Edition, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff moderates a bracing and illuminating conversation with Lt....
Vincent Phillip Muñoz: Faith and Free Speech
On this episode of Higher Ed Now Civics Edition, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff speaks with Vincent Phillip Muñoz, the Tocqueville Profess...
Michael Auslin: The Making of a National Treasure
On this episode of Higher Ed Now Civics Edition, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff speaks with Michael Auslin , the Payson J. Treat Distingui...
Aimee Guidera: Higher Education and the Nation's Founding Aspirations
In April 2026, Dr. Bryan Paul, Curricular Fellow for ACTA's College Debates and Discourse Alliance, joined Aimee Guidera , former Secretary...
Mike Balow: Resisting MSU's Crackdown on Dissent
ACTA's Nick Down interviews Michigan State University (MSU) Board of Trustees member Mike Balow . The aftermath of an emergency meeting to r...
Max Schanzenbach: An Insider's Guide to Divestment
ACTA's chief of staff and SVP, Armand Alacbay , interviews Max Schanzenbach , the Seigle Family Professor of Law at Northwestern University...
Mark T. Mitchell: How Patrick Henry College Sets the National Standard
ACTA's Academic Affairs Fellow Veronica Bryant is joined by Dr. Mark T. Mitchell , Dean of Academic Affairs at Patrick Henry College as well...
David Rohrbacher: Inside New College's Curriculum Turnaround
ACTA's Veronica Bryant welcomes David Rohrbacher, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Classics at the New Colleg...
Lucas Morel: Frederick Douglass's Evolving View of Abraham Lincoln
On this episode of Higher Ed Now, ACTA's Michael Poliakoff hosts Washington & Lee University's John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics,...
Glenn Corn: A Former CIA Agent's Case for Language Learning
ACTA's Academic Affairs Fellow Veronica Bryant welcomes Glenn Corn , who spent 35 years working in the national security and international a...
Wagner, Colonialism, and K-Pop: How Language Learning Connects Us to Culture and History
ACTA's Academic Affairs Fellow Veronica Bryant is joined by Dr. Marie Kawthar Daouda , stipendiary lecturer in French at the University of O...
David Eubanks: How Accreditation Does (And Does Not) Work
ACTA's Kyle Beltramini welcomes David Eubanks , assistant vice president of the Office of Institutional Assessment and Research at Furman Un...
Thad Westbrook: Leading Higher Education Reform at the University of South Carolina
ACTA's Nick Down interviews Thad Westbrook , chairman of the University of South Carolina 's (USC) Board of Trustees . Mr. Westbrook earned...
Lee Strang: Revitalizing Civics Education in the Buckeye State
ACTA president Michael Poliakoff speaks with Lee Strang , the inaugural director of the new Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and S...
Building Bridges for Higher Ed Accreditation Reform
Description: In this episode of Higher Ed Now, ACTA Policy Research Fellow Kyle Beltramini and Third Way Education Policy Advisor Emily Roun...
Douglas Ginsburg & Deecy Gray: Teaching Civics Amid Academia's Pushback
In this episode, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff discusses solutions to our nation's civic education crisis with distinguished jurist Dougl...
Richard Haass: Guarding Democracy by Teaching Civics
ACTA president Michael Poliakoff speaks with Richard Haass, distinguished diplomat and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relation...
Free Speech Soars at GMU Law School
Dubbed "Washington's School for Civil Discourse," George Mason University's (GMU) Antonin Scalia Law School exposes students to all legal an...