Archive for the ‘Higher Education’ Category

Chicago Civic Education Roundtable, May 13

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History and the Constitutional Rights Foundation will host a Chicago Civic Education Roundtable, May 13, at the Standard Club.

Dozens of representatives from several Chicago area colleges, universities, and public and private  schools,  as well as organizations dedicated to strengthening civic education, will participate in the program, which begins with a lunch at noon .

Featured speaker will be the Honorable Marjorie Rendell, first lady of Pennsylvania and a member of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Rendell is one of the nation’s

Judge Rendell

Judge Rendell

leading advocates for civic education. She is a member of the National Advisory Council of the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools and is a lead partner of the Pennsylvania Coalition for Representative Democracy. Her remarks, “Does Civic Education Matter?” will be followed by panel discussions addressing the need to strengthen civic education at the K-12 level, at the college level, and concluding  with a sharing of ideas regarding recommendations and priorities going forward.

For more information, contact Mike Deshaies, at mdeshaies@gojmc.org., or tel. 484-436-2067.

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Conference on Jewish Law and America’s Founding Principles

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

DePaul University College of Law will host a conference on May 13 to compare and contrast the fundamental conceptual underpinnings of the founding principles of the American Republic with those of Judaism.

Scholars Celebrate Democracy

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

from the Indiana Daily Student
By KATIE DAWSON

Ten panelists from three different continents spoke about one influential Frenchman.
Alexis de Tocqueville scholars from around the world gathered in the Indiana Memorial Union Walnut Room on Friday  to celebrate the publication of a bilingual, French and English, edition of “Democracy in America.”
“The best work on American democracy was written [...]

Abolition and American Culture

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

by Andrew Delblanco, with commentary by Wilfred McClay

Miller Center Network Publications

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The Jack Miller Center wants to congratulate the members of our JMC network who have published a book length manuscript in the last calendar year. Few accomplishments are as meaningful and lasting for authors, and those who read them.

Pay Rises for Leaders of Colleges, Survey Says

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Many of the nation’s public universities eliminated courses and raised tuition last year, but the salaries and benefits of their presidents continued to rise.

The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University by Louis Menand

Friday, January 15th, 2010

The American university is suffering from a deep-seated institutional crisis that has grown rapidly more dire since the 1970s.

History Experiment at Indiana

Friday, December 18th, 2009

The History Department at the University of Indiana is reexamining how history is taught/modeled in the classroom.

Miller Center Essay Prize

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

The Jack Miller Center Essay Prize Competition for the best essays published in Historically Speaking during 2010 in the areas of Intellectual History or History of Political Thought, and Military or Diplomatic History.

83 Percent of U.S. Adults Fail Test on Nation’s Founding

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Who cares about the American Revolution and why should something that happened more than 200 years ago matter today? These are among the questions raised by a recent national survey, sponsored by The American Revolution Center, which revealed an alarming lack of knowledge of our nation’s founding history, despite near universal agreement on the importance of this knowledge.