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Apply Now: New NEH Initiative, “A More Perfect Union”

This Constitution Day, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) launched a new initiative focusing on American history and civic education.

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Register Now: National Endowment for the Humanities Peer Reviewers

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is currently seeking peer reviewers.

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Harvey Mansfield on Free Speech and Higher Education

JMC faculty partner Harvey Mansfield recently appeared on Conversations with Bill Kristol to discuss free speech and its relationship to higher education.

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Kinder Institute: Thomas Jefferson’s Life of Learning and Law

On August 23, 2019, David Konig will speak at the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, a JMC partner program, on Thomas Jefferson's view of education.

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Kinder Institute: Americans and the German University System

On September 6, 2019, David Blackbourn will speak at the Kinder Institute, a JMC partner program, on the German influence upon American universities during the nineteenth century.

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Apply Now: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is partnering with the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to offer a special funding opportunity to assess civic education on the national level.

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Frederick Douglass Forum: What’s So Liberating about the Liberal Arts?

On March 15, 2019, the Frederick Douglass Forum at Linfield College held a symposium on liberal education and the American experiment.

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Purdue University: Remaking American Political History

On June 6-7, 2019, Purdue University will host a conference on American political history and how it can be made accessible to the public.

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Job Opening: Editor at University Press of Kansas

University Press of Kansas is currently accepting applications for an Acquisitions Editor who will be responsible for acquiring publications in the humanities and social sciences.

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American University: The Lincoln Scholars Program

American University is launching a new program for underclassmen who want to explore the great questions of moral and political life in a context of intellectual and political diversity.

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Harvard University: The Quest for Equal Results

On April 26, 2019, the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University, a JMC partner program, will host Amy Wax for a lecture on the meaning of equality within academia.

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JMC Annual Summit: Freedom of Speech on Campus

JMC's 2018 Summit on Higher Education addressed the problems of speech on campus and featured Robert Zimmer, Bill Kristol, Peter Berkowitz, and JMC faculty partners Diana Schaub and Wilfred McClay.

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An Overview of Title IX’s History in Higher Education

JMC board member Elizabeth Busch co-authored a book on Title IX and sex discrimination in higher education.

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Notre Dame Event: Speech and the University

This fall, Keith Whittington will discuss his book on higher education and speech at Notre Dame's Constitutional Studies Program, a JMC partner program.

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American University Students Discuss Political Theory

An overview of the the Political Theory Institute's 2017-18 academic year

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The 14th Amendment and Free Speech

The 14th Amendment may help reduce the number of vague laws that encourage expansive bureaucratic prerogative in speech regulation.

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Ed Schools Are Enforcing Ideological Uniformity

Lyell Asher examines the impact widespread ed school training has on academia at large.

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Nebraska’s Showdown over Free Speech

The small but momentous clash at the University of Nebraska is indicative of larger political disagreements over free speech.

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Should the University Be Practical or about Truth-Seeking?

JMC fellow Elizabeth Corey offers some reflections about the differing purposes of the university.

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Do College Students Care about the Humanities?

JMC fellow Mark Bauerlein considers OU's rigorous literature course and how students respond to it.

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Suppressing Speech and the Quest for Justice

JMC fellow Dr. James Piereson will discuss hostility to campus free speech at Villanova's Ryan Center, a JMC partner program.

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Free Speech on Campus and in Political Life

JMC faculty partner James R. Stoner reviewed four recently published books that weigh in on the national debate over free speech, including a book by JMC fellow Sigal Ben-Porath.

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Scott Yenor on the Corruption of Higher Ed

JMC faculty partner Scott Yenor chronicles the turn of his university, Boise State, toward an entrenched intolerant orthodoxy.

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JMC Fellows Named CU Boulder’s Visiting Conservative Scholars

Two JMC fellows, W.B. Allen and Stephen Presser, were named the 2018-19 Visiting Scholars in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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The Battleground of Higher Education

JMC fellow Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill writes about the liberal arts' potential comeback in higher education and the urgent need to continue advocating for them.

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Gordon Wood: the Importance of Early American History

JMC fellow Gordon Wood sits down with the WSJ and reflects on the importance of studying early American history and the recent failure of his field to do so responsibly.

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Harvard Lecture: Title IX and Higher Education

At Harvard's Program on Constitutional Government, Shep Melnick will discuss the ways Title IX has impacted higher education.

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The Abandonment of the Liberal Arts in Higher Education

Notre Dame Professor Christian Smith offers a critique of the socially-destructive patterns in higher education.

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ASU Event on Campus Speech and Violent Protests

Professors Stanger and Valdivia will discuss violent protests and campus speech at ASU.

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Jonathan Haidt on Polarization and the University

Jonathan Haidt's essay in City Journal on the causes of polarization and its effects on society and higher education.

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Wilfred McClay on Meritocracy in Higher Education

An article by Wilfred McClay in the Chronicle Review discusses the adverse effects of higher education's devotion to meritocracy for American society.

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David Bromwich on Free Speech

David Bromwich published an article in The Chronicle Review discussing the growing censorship of speech on college campuses.

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IHS Framework for Freedom of Speech on Campus

IHS produced a booklet, A Framework for Campus Free Speech, to serve as a resource for colleges and universities that wish to facilitate open dialogue on their campuses.

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James Ceaser: Free Speech and Thought on Campus

JMC board member and faculty partner Jim Ceaser will give a Constitution Day lecture at Missouri State on "Free Speech and Thought on College Campuses"

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Roosevelt Montás: Democracy and Higher Education

Roosevelt Montás' article in Chronicle of Higher Education on the importance of teaching modern students about the foundations of our liberal democracy

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Peter Wood on the Growing Contempt for Colleges

NAS President Peter Wood discusses the problematic politicization of higher education in America.

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Daniel DiSalvo on Cuts in Higher Education

Study coauthored by JMC Fellow Daniel DiSalvo

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Of Sanctuaries and Safe Spaces: Universities as Associations – Lecture at American University

By Jacob T. Levy (McGill University)
Hosted by the Political Theory Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies

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JMC Faculty Partner Vincent Phillip Muñoz Writes about Free Speech and Charles Murray

"Why I Invited Charles Murray to Speak at Notre Dame" for Real Clear Politics

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Mark Cuban: Liberal Arts is the Future

Abby Jackson writes for the "Business Insider"

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Teaching American Political History

Op-Ed by Fredrik Logevall and Kenneth Osgood in the New York Times

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New Research on Adjunct Faculty in Higher Education

Phillip W. Magness writes on the effects of for-profit colleges on the labor market in academia.

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“How to Get Tenure”

Steven M. Walt in "Foreign Policy" magazine

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Larry Summers on “Conversations with Bill Kristol”

Larry Summers discusses political correctness on college campuses and its effect on freedom of thought

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The Latest Intellectuals

Russell Jacoby (UCLA) considers the current divide between "public" and "academic" intellectuals in America

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Marilynne Robinson Discusses Higher Education at Stanford

Novelist Marilynne Robinson warns Stanford audience against utilitarian trends in higher education

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Lecture Me. Really.

An op-ed in defense of lecturing in the humanities

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College Calculus

The New Yorker asks, "What's the real value of higher education?"

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Farewell to America’s Small Colleges

Moody's predicts trouble ahead for American liberal arts colleges

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Academic Job Search: How Long Are You Marketable?

Data on academic hires.

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What Good Is Liberal Education?

Barry Strauss confronts Fareed Zakaria's In Defense of a Liberal Education

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Liberal Education and American Democracy

JMC Fellow George Thomas on the liberal arts and American civic education

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Liberal Arts, a Lost Cause?

Interview with economist David W. Breneman on the state of the liberal arts in America

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Two College Presidents, on Higher Education

University presidents at Harvard and Lafayette College respond to worries about the utility of a liberal arts education

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US Recessions Reduce Demand for Liberal Arts Degrees

Study shows students choose "more challenging" majors in bad economic times

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The Suicide of the Liberal Arts

Agresto defends the liberal arts as a form of education that both complements and is complemented by vocational training

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A Science of Literature: Book Reviews

Ben Merriam considers several recent books on the trend towards digital humanities

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2015’s Great Colleges to Work For

From the Chronicle of Higher Education

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Economic History is Dead; Long Live Economic History

Economist writers argue that historians of economics are needed to investigate the claims made by economists and to moderate disagreement within the field.

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Linker – How to Save Liberal Arts Education

Damon Linker on how to protect liberal arts education in America

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Antidotes to the Closing of the American Mind

Thomas L. Jeffers reviews Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow's "The State of the American Mind"

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The Reason Behind High Tuition Costs

Law professor Paul Campos on the high cost of tuition.

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“The Slow Death of the University”

A former Oxford chair discusses the current state of the university system in Great Britain.

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Report on the Health of the Humanities in Higher Education

American Academy of Arts & Sciences reports on the state of the humanities in higher education.

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Sacrifice a Good Living for the Pleasure of Teaching?

Is the love of teaching enough to sustain academics?

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“Can Robert Putnam Save the American Dream?”

Review of Putnam's latest book.

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“I Was a Professor at Four Universities”

An adjunct professor describes her effort to make ends meet.

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Q&A with Gregory Woodward, President of Carthage College

A JMC interview with Gregory Woodward, President of Carthage College

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Tom Kelly Leads Civic Education Discussion

“Civic Renewal and Higher Education”: a discussion at Villanova.

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A National University in the US?

George Thomas at UCLA's CLAFI
Thursday, February 26, 7:30 p.m., Law School Room 1447

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JMC Partner Programs in Chicago Collaborate through the Galileo/Shakespeare Project

Partner programs collaborate in Chicago.

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The Founders and the Idea of a National University

George Thomas on his latest book.

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JMC’s Tom Kelly to Lead Discussion on “Civic Renewal and Higher Education”

A "Civic Renewal and Higher Education" discussion at Villanova.

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Increased Wealth Drives Record Giving to Colleges

"Huge explosion of wealth" thought to be behind record gifts to colleges in 2014.

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Community College, Shrinking Humanities, and the State of the Union

A report on community college and the humanities, Obama's proposal for free tuition.

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Ruth Wisse on the University in Decline

"Liberal democracy is not biologically transmitted. I don't think [universities] understand that."

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Speakers Reflect on State of Liberal Arts

On the survival of the liberal arts.

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Sacred and Secular Approaches to Liberal Arts Education: A Conference at Rhodes

September 25 – September 27, 2014
at Rhodes College

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“Machine Grading and Moral Learning”

Is something lost when software grades essays?

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From Newsweek: “American Horror, Ivy League Edition”

"[I]f the Ivy League is turning out imperfect citizens, then its imperfect teachers are to blame."

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Must the Humanities Adapt to Media Variety?

"If the humanities are to survive, if they are not to become as marginal and small as classics departments, they will have to pay more attention to the variety of media narrative now lives in."

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Bloomberg Assails Intolerance of Diversity of Ideas at Universities

"Great universities must not become predictably partisan. And a liberal arts education must not be an education in the art of liberalism."

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JMC Chairman’s Award Winner is “Conscience” of Documentary

NYT's Frank Bruni Discusses "Ivory Tower" Documentary

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from NYT Magazine: Who Gets to Graduate?

"There are thousands of students like Vanessa at the University of Texas, and millions like her throughout the country..."

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OU Teach-In on the Civil War

Panel Explores How To Make History Vital To 21st Century Education

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Crimes Against Humanities

Leon Wieseltier responds to Steven Pinker.

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Humanities or Self-Help?

Faculty object to a plan to replace humanities requirement with self-help course.

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