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The American Academy for Liberal Education (AALE) is a United States-based educational:{accreditation organization with a focus on fostering liberal arts education, both in higher education and in earlier schooling.}:
AALE does not currently have U.S. Department of Education recognition as a higher education accreditor.[1]
History
AALE was formed in 1992 with the stated purpose of "supporting and recognizing excellence in undergraduate liberal arts teaching and learning through accreditation."[2] Founders included Jacques Barzun, retired philosophy professor from Columbia University, E.O. Wilson of Harvard University, historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese of Emory University, andLynne Cheney, former U.S. Secretary of Education.[3][4] Its initial focus was on undergraduate education, which Barzun said had become "confused, misdirected or not directed at all."[5]
In July 1995, the U.S. Department of Education granted AALE official recognition as an institutional accreditor for colleges and universities.[3] This recognition allowed AALE-accredited institutions in the United States to participate in student financial aid programs authorized under the Higher Education Act and other U.S. federal programs.[6]
In December 2006, the U.S. Department of Education suspended AALE's authority to accredit new institutions and programs.[7][8] This restriction was lifted in December 2007.[9] In the ruling that lifted the restrictions for a period of three years (expiring in December, 2010), Education Secretary Margaret Spellings wrote of "continued concerns stemming from AALE's being cited consistently since 2001 for either not having clear standards with respect to measuring student outcomes or not collecting and reviewing data on how institutions it accredits measures student outcomes."[10]
In November 2010, AALE voluntarily withdrew its request for renewal of U.S. Department of Education recognition as a higher education accreditor.[11] For institutions accredited by AALE in 2010 or earlier, accreditation remained valid through July 1, 2012 for purposes of federal government financial aid to students under Title IV of the Higher Education Act.[12]
Accreditation
AALE provides two types of accreditation for higher education institutions that offer general education programs in the liberal arts. It provides institutional accreditation for universities and colleges that want AALE to be their sole accreditor and it provides program accreditation for liberal arts programs within higher education institutions that are institutionally accredited by another accreditor.[13] AALE accreditation activities are not limited to the United States; the organization works with institutions and programs worldwide that emphasize liberal education and the liberal arts.
The organization also is an accreditor of K–12 charter schools and independent schools throughout the United States.
As of August 2009, AALE had accredited about 20 institutions within the United States,and another dozen members outside the country.[14] Several AALE-accredited institutions follow a "great books" approach.[7]
Leadership
Since January 2011, AALE has been led by acting president Charles E. Butterworth, an emeritus professor of politics and government at the University of Maryland.[15]
See also
- Higher education accreditation in the United States
- List of recognized accreditation associations of higher learning
- Standards-based education reform
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Charles Butterworth, Ph.D. (born 1938) is a noted philosopher of the Straussian school and currently an emeritus professor of political philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Butterworth is also a translator and editor of numerous books about the philosophers Rousseau, Alfarabi, and Averroes.[1]
Butterworth received his B.A. from Michigan State University. He trained in political philosophy and Arabic as well as Islamic civilization at the University of Chicago, where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science. He has also studied at the University of Ayn Shams in Egypt, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Nancy in France (receiving a doctorate in philosophy from the latter).[2]
Before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland, Butterworth taught at the University of Chicago and Federal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia). He has also taught at St. John's College, Georgetown University, and Harvard University, in addition to Marmara University, the University of Bordeaux, the University of Grenoble, the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), the University of Paris X (Nanterre), and the École pratique des hautes études.
For several years he was the Principal Investigator for the Smithsonian-sponsored Project in Medieval Islamic Logic in Cairo.[3] He has also been the Principal Investigator for a project on medieval Islamic logic sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and has organized a two-week Salzburg seminar on the Commonality of Cultural Traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
In 1992–1993, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. during which time he pursued a project on the relationship between revelation and political philosophy. From October 1999 until March 2000, Butterworth held a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research and Lecturing Award at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany, and from May through August 2000 a German Academic Exchange Professorship at the same university. Also, during May and June 2000, he gave a series of lectures at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris entitled "Des origines de la philosophie politique en Islam."
At the University of Maryland, he has been recognized as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher (1990–91) and he received an award in Excellence in Teaching and Mentorship (2001–02) granted by the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.[4]
See also
References
- Jump up *Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker (ISBN 978-0814710197)
- Ethical Writings of Maimonides (ISBN 978-0814709849)
- Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (co-foreworded with Thomas Pangle) (ISBN 978-0801487163)
- Alfarabi's Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (ISBN 978-0801489136)
- Averroes' Three Short Commentaries (ISBN 978-0873952088)
- Averroes Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory ISBN 0-8425-2479-7
- Jump up *University of Maryland Biography "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2009-11-30.
- Jump up The Murphy Institute http://murphy.tulane.edu/events/lectures/1622.php
- Jump up Charles Butterworth University of Maryland Biography "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2009-11-30.
External links
- University of Maryland faculty page
- University of Maryland Biography
- Journal of the History of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
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Beyond general political identification, the professors were asked for views on specific issues, and here too, the authors find faculty backing for positions associated with liberal politics. Of professors, 84 percent somewhat or strongly agree that women should have the right to have abortions, and 88 percent agree that policies should favor environmental protection even if those policies result in higher prices and fewer jobs.
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LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
2016 to present Member of the Board of the American Academy for Liberal Education
2012 to present Director, Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Texas Tech University
2014 to present Chairman of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions
2010 to present Member of the Board of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of
Western Civilization
2009 - 2012 Chairman and Director of Special Projects, National Association of Scholars
1987 to 2008 President, National Association of Scholars: Dr. Balch was the principal founder
of the organization in 1987 and served as its president for twenty-one years. The
National Association of Scholars now has about 3,000 academic members and fortyseven
state affiliates.
As the chief executive officer of the National Association of Scholars, Dr. Balch has
received extensive coverage in the national and educational media. He also played a
key role in the founding of five other higher education organizations including the
American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the American Academy for Liberal
Education, the Historical Society, the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and
Writers, and the Association for the Study of Free Institutions, as well as numerous
academic programs at American universities and colleges focused on the study of
free institutions and Western civilization.He is also co-author of several major NAS
studies of curriculum evolution and problems including, The Dissolution of General
Education:1914-1993 and Losing the Big Picture: The Fragmentation of the
English Major Since 1964. In addition, Dr Balch serves as Editor-in-Chief of the
NAS journal, Academic Questions. REGNERY
2002 to 2006 Director, Philadelphia Society
1997 to 2003 Trustee, Medaille College, Buffalo, New York
1994 to 2011 Founding Director, American Council of Trustees and Alumni
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National Association of Scholars
221 Witherspoon Street, Second Floor
Princeton, New Jersey 08542-3215
Founded: 1985
President: Stephen H. Balch
Publications: NAS Update quarterly newsletter, Academic Questions quarterly journal, and Science Insights; and occasional reports
Finances: Has an income of less than $25,000 per year.
NAS Principle Issues:
- NAS was founded to bring together conservatives in academia to fight the "liberal bias" on college and university campuses and to target multiculturalism and affirmative-action policies.
- NAS organizes professors, graduate students, college administrators and trustees, and scholars who believe that there is a "[d]ogmatic hostility to Western civilization, and turning the study of non-Western cultures into an instrument for denouncing American society" on college campuses.
- Fights against the "[d]ecline in civility on college and university campuses."
NAS Principle Activities:
- NAS builds scholar networks, organizes panels, conferences, and lectures and creates NAS campus communities. NAS organizes outreach programs to recruit new members.
Major Right Wing Donors:
- Sarah Scaife Foundation
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc
- Castle Rock Foundation
- John M. Olin Foundation
NAS's Board of Advisors:
- John H. Bunzel, Hoover Institution
- Edwin J. Delattre, American Enterprise Institute
- Chester E. Finn, Fordham Foundation
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, Independent Women's Forum
- Paul Hollander, National Review,Front Page Magazine
- Harry V. Jaffa, Claremont Institute
- Donald Kagan, Project for the New American Century
- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, UN Ambassador under President Reagan, American Enterprise Institute
- Irving Kristol, American Enterprise Institute
- Richard D. Lamm, American Reform Party
- Leslie Lenkowsky, National Review
- Seymour Martin Lipset, Hoover Institution
- Christina Hoff Sommers, Independent Women's Forum
- Shelby Steele, Hoover Institution, Manhattan Institute
- Stephan Thernstrom, Manhattan Institute
- James Q. Wilson, Manhattan Institute
Updated July 2004
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=STEPHEN H. BALCH 301 Wayne Avenue Lubbock, Texas 79416 Home Telephone: (806) 407-5819 Office Telephone: (806) 742-1828 ext. 241 E-Mail Address: steve.balch@ttu.edu LEADERSHIP POSITIONS 2016 to present Member of the Board of the American Academy for Liberal Education 2012 to present Director, Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Texas Tech University 2014 to present Chairman of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions 2010 to present Member of the Board of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization 2009 - 2012 Chairman and Director of Special Projects, National Association of Scholars 1987 to 2008 President, National Association of Scholars: Dr. Balch was the principal founder of the organization in 1987 and served as its president for twenty-one years. The National Association of Scholars now has about 3,000 academic members and fortyseven state affiliates. As the chief executive officer of the National Association of Scholars, Dr. Balch has received extensive coverage in the national and educational media. He also played a key role in the founding of five other higher education organizations including the American Council of Trustees and Alumni,the American Academy for Liberal Education, the Historical Society, the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers, and the Association for the Study of Free Institutions, as well as numerous academic programs at American universities and colleges focused on the study of free institutions and Western civilization. He is also co-author of several major NAS studies of curriculum evolution and problems including, The Dissolution of General Education:1914-1993 and Losing the Big Picture: The Fragmentation of the English Major Since 1964. In addition, Dr Balch serves as Editor-in-Chief of the NAS journal, Academic Questions. 2002 to 2006 Director, Philadelphia Society 1997 to 2003 Trustee, Medaille College, Buffalo, New York 1994 to 2011 Founding Director, American Council of Trustees and Alumni 1992, Founding Vice President of the American Academy for Liberal Education: The AALE is a federally recognized accrediting agency devoted to enriching the content and enhancing the rigor of liberal education. HONORS National Humanities Medal, for distinguished service on behalf of the humanities, bestowed by President George W. Bush at the White House, November 15, 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Balch_receives_medal.jpg Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award, presented February 27, 2009 by the American Conservative Union Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Danforth Foundation Associate, 1980-1984 American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, 1972-1973 Phi Beta Kappa, 1964 Faculty Positions 1979 to 1987 Associate Professor of Government, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York 1974 to 1979 Assistant Professor of Government, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York 1973 to 1974 Assistant Professor of Urban Policy and Programs, Office of Urban Policy and Programs, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York 1971 to 1972 Instructor of Political Science, Rutgers University at New Brunswick 1970 to 1971 Acting Instructor of Political Science, University of California/Berkeley 1969 to 1970 Instructor of Government, University of San Francisco PERSONAL Date of Birth: 01/31/44 Married, two children EDUCATION B. A. magna cum laude, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 1964 M. A., Political Science, University of California/Berkeley, 1967 Ph. D., Political Science, University of California/Berkeley, 1972 CIVIC INVOLVEMENTS Republican Candidate for the Princeton Borough Council - 1985 Member, New Jersey State Supreme Court Task Force on Minority Concerns, 1986-1993. Chairman, New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1985-1990; Member, 1990-2005. Member, Board of Advisors, Educational Excellence Network, 1994-1996. Member of the National Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE),
2001 - 2004 PUBLICATIONS Dr. Balch’s most recent writings have been concerned with the issue of intellectual pluralism in higher education and the nature of academic life. Among the more notable are: Toward the New Tyranny of Talk, Accepted for Publication in Quadrant. On the Fragility of the Western Achievement, Society, January 2014 The Antidote to Academic Orthodoxy, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 23, 2004. Build It and They Will Come: Reviving Academic Diversity through New Programs, Philanthropy, May/June 2005. The Dubious Value of Value-Neutrality, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 16, 2006. The Route to Academic Pluralism in The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, Reforms (The American Enterprise Institute, 2009) pp. 227-240. Among his earlier publications on the subject was: The Tenured Left, Commentary (October 1986), with Herbert I. London Reports The Dissolution of the Curriculum 1914 – 1996, NAS (co-authored) The Vanishing West, NAS 2012 (co-authored) Political Science Journal Articles Do Strong Presidents Really Want Strong Legislative Parties?, Presidential Studies Quarterly , VII, iv (Fall 1977) Amending the United States Constitution: The View from the States, State Government, LIII, ii (Spring 1980) The Journey Along the Naturalistic-to-Bureaucratic Continuum: Another Route, Politics and the Life Sciences, III, I (August 1984) The Neutered Civil Servant: Eunuchs, Celibates and the Calculus of Organizational Loyalty, The Journal of Social and Biological Structures, VIII, iv (October 1985) Marxism and Magic: A Review Essay of Leszek Kolakowski’s Main Currents of Marxism: Interpretation, (Spring 1987) Metaevolution and Biocultural History, The Journal of Social and Biological Structures (Fall 1989, pp. 303-318) Plus book reviews and other opinion pieces on higher education issues in Society, Constitutional Commentary, and The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Philanthropy Magazine, The Washington Times and The New York Post, the NAS website, Pajamas Media and NAS Update. ==