Bringing together colleges and universities to promote the integrated and common study
of world classics and other texts of major cultural significance.
Upcoming Events
30th Annual ACTC Conference
Leading Between the Lines:
Core Texts and Public Leadership
April 3-6, 2025
Madison Concourse Hotel, Madison Wisconsin
Wilfred McClay (Hillsdale)
Anika Prather: (CUA)
Conference Sponsor
The Tommy G. Thompson Center On Public Leadership
Conference Co-Sponsors
Oglethorpe Core Studies
The ACTC Liberal Arts Institute at Mercer University
The Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy
Foundation Sponsors
The Hertog Foundation
The Jack Miller Center
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni
The Teagle Foundation
Advanced Registration
$375 for faculty and administrators at ACTC member institutions
$425 for non-members
$275 for graduate students and emeritus professors
(includes dinner Thursday, breakfast and lunch Friday and Saturday, and breakfast Sunday)
Reserve your Room in our Discounted Block at the Madison Concourse Hotel
Spring 2025 ACTC Undergraduate Conference
Happiness in Connection
March 7-9, 2025
Dharma Realm Buddhist University
Ukiah, California
Keynote Speaker: Nipun Mehta
Students will be selected based on faculty nomination. To nominate your student, please send their name and email address to Franklyn Wu (franklyn.wu@drbu.edu). Deadline December 9, 2024.
This is a fully funded opportunity for students from ACTC member schools (excluding travel). Students from non-ACTC member institutions are welcome but must pay a conference registration fee. Click HERE for more information
Summer 2025 ACTC Faculty Development Workshop
The Art of the First Year Seminar
May 18-25, 2025
American University
Washington DC
Sponsored by the Teagle Foundation and AU Lincoln Scholars Program
Click HERE or email actcamericanuniversity@gmail.com for information
Undergraduate Study Abroad
Buddhist Core Texts in Taiwan
June 28 – July 26, 2025
Undergraduate Study Abroad
Buddhist Core Texts in Taiwan
June 28 – July 26, 2025
Encourage your students to apply for this remarkable opportunity to live in Taipei, Taiwan and study Buddhist Core Texts with Franklyn Wu (Dharma Realm Buddhist University). Professor Wu will lead students both in discussion of primary texts in the Buddhist tradition and through Taipei, itself, engaging that great city as a text.
Recent Conferences
Annual Conference for Undergraduate Students
March 1-3, 2024
American University, Washington DC
*Registration fee waived for students from ACTC Member Institutions
First Latin American Conference of Liberal Education
The Hispanic Canon
Definition, Influences and Crossovers
14th & 15th of December 2023
Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile
Conference Language: Spanish
Publications
Liberal arts institute
International Programs
The Minimum Wager
“ACTC is the critical institutional vehicle for supporting, promoting, and expanding liberal education based on the study of important texts.”
Roosevelt Montás, Columbia University
