“A university curriculum that omits the study of ideas that promote moral and intellectual excellence, defends individual liberty against democratic and egalitarian threats, explains the claims of religion in educating citizens for liberty, and jealously guards free-market capitalism against established ways, in order to make room for progressive ideas is a curriculum that deprives students [...]
Jun 24, 2009 | Categories:Teach Freedom Initiative, U.S. & Canada | Tags: academia, Ashbrook Center, Center for Vision and Values, Hoover Institute, James Madison Program, Mathew Ryan Project, Peter Berkowitz, Study of Constitutional Democracy, Tocqueville Forum, Wall Street Journal | Comments Off
On April 5th Atlas held a half day conference, “Improving Students’ Appreciation of Free-Market Thinking Through the Academy”, just prior to the APEE meeting in Guatemala. The keynote speaker for this meeting was Jeff Sandefer, Professor and CO-Founder of Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship. His speech was entitled, An Alternative Model for Educating Business Leaders. In [...]
Apr 14, 2009 | Categories:@ Atlas, Events, Podcast, Teach Freedom Initiative | Tags: academia, Academic Centers, Acton MBA, entrepreneurship, Jeff Sandefer | Comments Off
This is pretty cool. Our favorite free-speech-on-campus watchdog group, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, has taken their database relating to speech codes at American universities, created a simple-to-understand coding sytem (red light, yellow light, green light) to rank each university, and they’ve written a little script so you can imbed a widget at [...]
Jul 23, 2008 | Categories:U.S. & Canada | Tags: academia, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, free speech, widget | Comments Off
