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Sen. Gregg on the Higher Education Act
In today's New Hampshire Union Leader, home-state Sen. Judd Gregg writes about some provisions he authored in the recently reauthorized Higher Education Act. As his mention of the Bradley Project report E Pluribus Unum (coordinated by ACTA) and our study Losing America's Memory show, Sen. Gregg has long shared ACTA's interest in protecting the free exchange of ideas and promoting the teaching of American history in the academy, and those areas are precisely what these sections of the new law address.
Of course, ACTA believes it is ultimately up to colleges and universities themselves -- not Congress -- to make certain that the marketplace of ideas on campus is healthy and that the next generation of American citizens are properly learning their history. But it is surely noteworthy that Sen. Gregg and his congressional colleagues have underscored the importance of these issues -- and troubling that it was necessary for them to do so.
Notably, back in 2003 Sen. Gregg chaired a Senate hearing on intellectual diversity where ACTA president Anne D. Neal (click for her testimony), City University of New York professor KC Johnson, FIRE president Greg Lukianoff, and then-University of Virginia student Anthony Dick testified. We appreciate the Senator's passion and leadership.
Posted by Charles Mitchell at August 19, 2008 05:25 PM
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