Summits on Higher Education

The Jack Miller Center’s Advisory Council conducts a national summit for educators each year. These three-day conferences bring together college professors to strategize on how to develop an academic center on their campus. Workshops are led by professors who have established centers, university administrators, and representatives from grant making institutions such as the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Philadelphia Summit 2009

The Most Partisan Election in American History
March 11th, 2010 - Before we declare our politicians the most faithless, we should turn to a Washington insider who exposed the underbelly of politics in the `70s (that's the 1870s).
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Scholars Celebrate Democracy
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
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Montesquieu on the Uses of Nobility on March 12 2010 more
Lecture at Furman University on March 16 2010 more
Jack Miller Lecture at Michigan State on March 16 2010 more