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,...
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20 of 100 episodesGlenn 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...
Reinvigorating Civil Discourse at M.I.T.
MIT Concourse is a program for first-year students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that "brings science into conversation with...
Civil Discourse Surges at UNC-Greensboro
ACTA's Program Coordinator for the College Debates and Discourse Alliance, Kayla Johnston , returns to her alma mater, the University of Nor...
John Hillen: American Civics and Student Leadership
ACTA President Michael Poliakoff welcomes The Honorable John Hillen , distinguished resident fellow at the Center for Politics in Duke Unive...
Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi: Expanding Civil Discourse at Winston-Salem State University
This episode features Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi , professor of economics at Winston-Salem State University. Dr. Madjd-Sadjadi has more than 30 ye...
Jane Calvert: The Imperative to Study America's Founding
In this episode, ACTA Vice President of Policy Bradley Jackson talks with Jane Calvert, director of the John Dickinson Writings Project and...
Juniata College: Embracing Debate from the Campus to Classroom
In this episode, Sadie Webb , ACTA's Associate Director of the College Debates and Discourse (CD&D) Alliance , discusses the Alliance's exte...
Jon Hardister: Theory and Practice of Excellent University Governance
ACTA's chief of staff and SVP, Armand Alacbay , sits down with Jon Hardister , who once chaired North Carolina's House Education Committee,...
Ohio Senator Jerry Cirino: Fortifying Open Discourse in the Buckeye State
ACTA president Michael Poliakoff speaks to Ohio Senator Jerry Cirino , vice chair of the Senate's Higher Education Committee, on his promise...
Mitch Daniels: The Heart of the Academic Enterprise
Focusing on the role of higher education in preparing young Americans for citizenship, ACTA's president Michael Poliakoff speaks with Mitch...
Joshua Dunn: Intellectual Diversity and Informed Patriotism
ACTA's president Michael Poliakoff speaks with the distinguished scholar and education leader, Joshua Dunn , who took on leadership of the r...