Programs

The Jack Miller Center is dedicated to supporting, cultivating, and providing educational funding to young faculty members who emphasize teaching tomorrow’s leaders about our national heritage. The intellectual and political thought of the American Founders drew upon a rich history and an important part of contemporary education is the opportunity for students to wrestle with these ideas for themselves.

Education Funding

The programs of The Jack Miller Center encourage these educational opportunities in many ways. We conduct our own educational programming for young faculty and advanced graduate students at our two-week Summer Institutes. These flagship programs offer seminars from America’s leading scholars, publishing workshops with editors from University Presses, grant writing workshops, and other professional development opportunities.

In partnership with leading educational institutions and other donor partners, the Jack Miller Center is also proud to offer educational funding to a variety of university fellowship programs for young teachers. These teaching positions include Post-Doctoral Fellowships at some of America’s leading Universities and Colleges as well as teaching fellowship opportunities for some graduate students. More information on these fellowship and grant opportunities are available on this website. (Application procedures and selection for these positions is handled solely by the host institutions and their faculty.)

The Miller Center also provides on-campus program support through our Academic Centers and regional campus partnerships, such as our Chicago Initiative. These activities include conferences, speaker series, and curriculum support. Each year, the faculty of our on campus centers meet with University Presidents and other administrators for discussion and educational support at our annual Summit on Higher Education. Our 2009 Summit took place in Philadelphia.

In the past year, the Miller center has also begun a book subvention program to aid in deferring the production costs of scholarly manuscripts.

In addition, as part of our Chicago Initiative, a Fund for New Academic Initiatives has been put in place to provide a small number of seed grants to be dispersed this year in the regional vicinity of Chicago. These smaller grants are intended to be a first step in enhancing educational funding opportunities for both students and faculty. Application procedures are available here.