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Advocacy in Action
Advocacy in Action
Joy Connolly outlines how attacks on tenure, academic freedom, and international exchange threaten the vitality of higher education and our democracy.
ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”
Community Message for February 2026
Community Message for February 2026
ACLS Program Officer Daphne Weber shares how The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies is building infrastructure to support scholars across the full spectrum of research.
ACLS Signs Coalition for International Education Letter on Elimination of Title VI and Fulbright Funding
ACLS Signs Coalition for International Education Letter on Elimination of Title VI and Fulbright Funding
This article states the ACLS joined CIE letter calling to reverse the elimination of future funding for HEA-Title VI and Fulbright Hays.
ACLS Statement Regarding the White House Review of Smithsonian Institution Museums
ACLS Statement Regarding the White House Review of Smithsonian Institution Museums
ACLS stands in firm opposition to the latest directive by the White House forcing Smithsonian Institution museums to subject their presentation of American history to government review.
Strategic Framework 2025-2030
Strategic Framework 2025-2030
ACLS shares our first progress update on our 2025-2030 Strategic Framework, Bold Action For Strength and Growth.
Advocacy in Action
Joy Connolly outlines how attacks on tenure, academic freedom, and international exchange threaten the vitality of higher education and our democracy.
ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”
Community Message for February 2026
ACLS Program Officer Daphne Weber shares how The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies is building infrastructure to support scholars across the full spectrum of research.
ACLS Signs Coalition for International Education Letter on Elimination of Title VI and Fulbright Funding
This article states the ACLS joined CIE letter calling to reverse the elimination of future funding for HEA-Title VI and Fulbright Hays.
ACLS Statement Regarding the White House Review of Smithsonian Institution Museums
ACLS stands in firm opposition to the latest directive by the White House forcing Smithsonian Institution museums to subject their presentation of American history to government review.
Strategic Framework 2025-2030
ACLS shares our first progress update on our 2025-2030 Strategic Framework, Bold Action For Strength and Growth.
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