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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">James Piereson, Chair of Minding the Campus</span>, is president of the William E. Simon Foundation and serves on the boards of many other non-profits, including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pinkerton_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pinkerton Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_W.Smith_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas W. Smith Foundation</a>, the Center for Individual Rights, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy_Roundtable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Philanthropy Roundtable</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Cultural_Review&action=edit&redlink=1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Foundation for Cultural Review</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Spectator" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Spectator Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hoover Institution</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stanford University</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donors_Trust" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Donors Trust</a>. </span>Trained in political science, he taught courses in political thought and U.S. government at Iowa State, Indiana University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Camelot and the Cultural Revolution </em>(2007).</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Debra S. McEneaney, Director and Treasurer</span>, is a partner in Hopeworks Ltd, a consulting company. She has applied over 40 years of marketing, management, and strategic planning know-how to a spate of non-profits, including the East Hampton Artists and Writers Charity Softball Game, where she grew the annual donations from $20,000 to $202,000 over nine years. She is currently Marketing and Community Advisor for the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Bauerlein, Director and Vice President</span> is an English professor at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_University" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emory University</a> and the author of the 2008 book, <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30)</em>, which won the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_Book_Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nautilus Book Award</a>. Bauerlein worked at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Endowment for the Arts</a>, serving as the Director of the Office of Research and Analysis. Bauerlein contributed to the NEA study, “Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Karen Ann Love, Director and Secretary</span>, has provided, strategic, operating and legal advice to nonprofit organizations on matters relating to governance and board relations, development and charitable events for more than 15 years. She has advised, drafted or negotiated on fundraising, sponsorship, and commercial disaster relief and other emergency assistance programs; gift agreements and grant agreements; establishing and administering grant-making guidelines; establishment, and approval, of scholarship programs; and forming and seeking federal, state and local exemptions for nonprofits. In addition to her work with nonprofits and her strong commitment to pro bono matters, she has devoted the rest of her practice to media/ entertainment / sports law matters, and general corporate / litigation matters.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" border="border" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700;">John Leo</span>, Editor,<i> </i> is a former senior fellow at the <b>Manhattan Institute</b> and contributing editor at the Institute’s <i>City Journal</i>. His popular column, “On Society,” ran in U.S.News & World Report for 17 years, and was syndicated to 140 newspapers through the Universal Press Syndicate. Leo has worked as a senior writer for Time magazine, and as a staff reporter for the New York Times specializing in intellectual trends and the social sciences. Among other position he has held are assistant administrator of New York City’s environmental protection administration, editor of a Catholic newspaper in Iowa, associate editor of Commonweal, book editor of the social science journal Trans-Action (now Society), and “Press Clips” columnist for the Village Voice. 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ACTA has proven a reliable voice for the interests of trustees and alumni in University affairs, with members from over 400 colleges and universities. It produces a quarterly publication Inside Academe.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thefire.org/index.php/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FIRE, founded in 1998 by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate following the publication of their The Shadow University is devoted to protection of “freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience” at American universities. FIRE has two principal efforts, the Individual Rights Defense Program and the Individual Rights Education Program. The defense program provides legal and institutional support for students’ free speech rights. The education program is devoted to appraising students of these rights. In both particulars FIRE is active in campaigning against restrictive campus speech codes. It publishes a yearly Spotlight on Speech Code, publicizing speech restrictions at American universities, as well a several student guides to free expression. The Spotlight, available online, profiles the speech policies of some 200 colleges and universities.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.isi.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intercollegiate Studies Institute</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ISI was founded in 1953 by Frank Chodorov, with William F. Buckley as first President to convey to students “an appreciation for the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society.” At present, ISI conducts a wide variety of educational programs, providing conferences, lectures, and seminars, and offering Fellowships for Graduate studies. It pursues a wide range of publishing, issuing numerous books, including a noted College Guide, and three journals, The Intercollegiate Review, Modern Age, and The Political Science Reviewer. Its membership numbers over 50,000 students and faculty members.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I.S.I. additionally directs the Collegiate Network, which provides “technical and financial assistance” to nearly 100 independent publications at many American universities. It administers student internships and fellowships, as well as an online publication, Campus Magazine.com.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nas.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Association of Scholars</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The NAS is an academic association of professors, graduate students, trustees, and administrators pressing for “an informed understanding of the Western intellectual heritage.” Its prominent concerns include “the substitution of social reform for the pursuit of knowledge”, “dogmatic hostility to Western civilization”, and the decline of core curricula and rise of “unscholarly curricular innovations.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It publishes a quarterly journal Academic Questions, a quarterly newsletter NAS Update, a general scientific publication, Science Insights, and commissions occasional research and surveys. Conferences and events are help by both the national organization and local chapters. It has local chapters in 45 states and the District of Columbia and a Canadian affiliate, with a membership in total of something over 4,000</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ALSO RECOMMENDED</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.aale.org/aale/about.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Academy for Liberal Education</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The American Academy for Liberal Education is an association that accredits institutions offering “quality general education programs in the liberal arts.” Their accreditation is premised upon “demanding core studies in the arts, sciences, and humanities” These distinctions are measures for parents and students seeking challenging and comprehensive programs of studies. It is a U.S. Department of Education-approved accreditor of Higher Education institutions, with members such as St John’s College, Thomas Aquinas College, and the University of Dallas.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.coretexts.org/history.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Association for Core Texts and Courses</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ACTC, founded at Temple University in 1994, is a liberal arts professional association advocating the study of great texts and core curricula. It promotes “the integrated and common study of world classics and other texts of major cultural significance” through conferences, and symposia, continuing research on the varying nature and direction of core studies at U.S. Institutions. It possesses 66 “institutional contributors” including Columbia, Emory, Hampden-Sydney, Pepperdine, St. John’s, and the University of Chicago.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.freestudies.org/background.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Association for the Study of Free Institutions and Free Societies</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Association is dedicated to the revival of the study of free institutions and free societies in Higher Education. It works to promote the study of such institutions and their histories, along with ideological, totalitarian, or religious threats to their functioning. Particular encouragement is provided to centers on the model of the Madison Center at Princeton and the Colgate Center for Freedom and Western Civilization.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Campus Watch</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Campus Watch is a project of the Middle East forum dedicated to the review of Middle East Studies in U.S. Higher Education. Its principal focus is review for “analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students.” Campus Watch offers profiles of over fifty higher colleges and Universities, and the details of such incidents occurring there.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.claremont.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Claremont Institute</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Claremont Institute’s mission is “to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.” Since 1979, it has engaged in a wide variety of such activities, with many of them focused on higher education. It hold frequent lectures and symposia, and publishes both the Claremont Review of Books, a notable book review, and The Proposition, which features excerpts of the work of Claremont scholars. The Institute offers the Lincoln and Publius Fellowship, educational programs focused on the American founding, for students and professionals respectively.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.fed-soc.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Federalist Society</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Federalist Society is a legal association dedicated to “reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law.” Law schools’ advocacy of a “centralized and uniform society” has been a prominent focus of their activities since their founding in 1982. The Society has faculty and student divisions with some 5,000 members at over 180 law schools. It holds numerous lectures, symposia, and debates at member schools and engages in a wide variety of publishing, from the ABA Watch to the Pre-Law Reading List.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.tfas.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=216&srcid=244" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fund for American Studies</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fund for American Studies hosts nine institutes to provide college students with an education in “the theory, practice and benefits of a free society.” Eight institutes are held each summer, in Washington, Greece, Hong Kong, and the Czech Republic. One institute is held in the spring and fall in Washington. The Fund holds additional professor and journalism seminars. The institutes, consisting of internships, coursework, and lectures, focus on such particular topics as Political Journalism, Comparative Politics and Economics, Business and Government Affairs, and Philanthropy and Voluntary Service. It has some 7,500 alumni from 700 colleges and universities in the US and worldwide.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.theihs.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Institute for Humane Studies</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IHS is dedicated to “change the current climate of opinion to one more congenial to the principles and practice of freedom” and pursues this goal through a variety of student programs and fellowships. It awards over $400,000 in scholarships each year to University students worldwide, for graduate or undergraduate study, research, and filmmaking. Additional grants are available in essay competitions and to support faculty research. Numerous student summer seminars are held at colleges and universities across the country on a range of topics concerning liberty, free societies, economics, and journalism.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.libertyfund.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Liberty Fund</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Liberty Fund is an educational foundation and publisher established to “encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.” Founded in 1960 by Pierre Goodrich it has since been devoted to publications and conferences devoted to exploring the “dimensions of liberty.” It publishes around 20 volumes a year, many of them reprints of seminal works of economic and political theory. It organizes some 160 related conferences a year in Europe and the Americas.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.neh.gov/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Endowment for the Humanities</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NEH is an “independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.” It has been providing support since 1963 to fellowships, research, publications, and education in the humanities. It has supported such projects as Ken Burns’ Civil War and volumes on American history by Bernard Bailyn, Louis Menand, and James McPherson. It publishes a bimonthly magazine, Humanities.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.popecenter.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Pope Center, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, is dedicated to reform of higher education, especially, but not exclusively, in North Carolina. It encourages scholarly inquiry, responsible teaching, and student commitment to learning. It conducts a variety of research, publishing inquiry papers and holding conferences on such topics as governance, curriculum, financing, access, accountability, faculty research, and administrative policies. It publishes a weekly email newsletter on higher education, The Clarion Call, and the higher education section of The Carolina Journal.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.safs.ca/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship is a Canadian organization devoted to the maintenance of freedom and excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. Its concerns include resistance against speech codes, discrimination on grounds of thought, and unfair preferences. Its goal of “promoting reasoned debate on issues of academic freedom and scholarship” is pursued through a variety of advocacy activities. The Society publishes SAF Newsletter monthly.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.splc.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Student Press Law Center</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SPLC is a legal assistance agency devoted to “educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment and supporting the student news media in their struggle to cover important issues free from censorship.” The center provides legal advice and educational materials to students, along with a network of 150 attorneys offering free representation under most circumstances. It produces a quarterly report of Student Journalism censorship cases.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Students for Academic Freedom</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SAF’s mission is to “end the political abuse of the university and to restore integrity to the academic mission as a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.” Founded by David Horowitz, a central focus of SAF has been the promotion of an Academic Bill of Rights, dedicated to ensuring non-political instruction and freedom of expression. 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