Welcome to ACTC
The Association for Core Texts and Courses supports individuals, provides fora, and develops initiatives that advance and strengthen the integrated and common study of world classics and texts of major cultural significance. ACTC welcomes faculty and administrators dedicated to building sound liberal education.
ACTC is an international, professional association that seeks to advance liberal education in institutions by developing and promoting successful general, liberal education programs (and other programs) which integrate core text courses with the most advanced developments in administration, curriculum, student support services, faculty support, and general education assessment and review.
Questions about ACTC conferences or activities? Call us at (949) 214-3623 or write to us: info@coretexts.org
ACTC is delighted to introduce Tara Flattley, our new administrative assistant.
Tara combines a high degree of professionalism with extensive experience in social media and website development, non-profit organizational management, and conference planning. She holds a B.A. and M.Ed. from Concordia University-Irvine and returns to her alma mater, now the home of the ACTC Liberal Arts Institute.
Contact Tara at:
Concordia University
1530 Concordia West
Irvine, CA 92612
Office: Beta 206C
Phone: 949-214-3623
tara.flattley@coretexts.org
Welcome, Tara.
The 2018 annual conference will be in Framingham, MA, from April 19-22.
ACTC Conferences may be the most stimulating conference you attend all year – at least that is what repeat
ed surveys of conference attendees tell us.
What makes ACTC conferences so intellectually satisfying? Perhaps it is because ACTC really is an interdisciplinary organization. Humanists, artists, social scientists, and scientists, sharing a common concern with excellent liberal education, meet together on panels to discuss ideas, texts, pedagogy, and administration of core text programs.
Or, maybe it is the texts and ideas that capture faculty and administrator interests. What are just a few of the authors or works that we have discussed in panel sessions in recent years? These include: Achebe, Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, Austen, the Bayeux Tapestry, Bhagavad Gita, Black Elk, Confucius, Douglass, Dylan, Ellison, Euclid, Dante, DuBois, Galileo, the Gospel of John, Homer, Jefferson, Lady Hyegyong, Lady Murasaki, Lao-Tse, Melville, Mencius, Mendel, Morrison, Mozart, Newton, Nietzsche, The Pentateuch, Picasso, Plato, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Teresa of Avila, Watson and Crick, and Woolf.
