ADVISORY
BOARD

New York Times columnist for over two decades and author of the #1 bestsellers The Road to Character and The Second Mountain, now writing on character and social connection.

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for fifty years, and has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In November of 2022, Ken was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.

Former president of the London School of Economics and the SSRC, a sociologist whose recent Degenerations of Democracy examines the fragility of democratic institutions.

Philosopher of virtue and moral psychology, founding dean of Tulsa's Honors College, and host of the Sacred and Profane Love podcast.

President of the Council of Independent Colleges and author of A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education, drawing on two college presidencies.

Economist and president emerita of Vassar, known for reinstating need-blind admissions and pioneering veterans' access to elite liberal arts colleges.

A first-generation scholar who rose from rural North Carolina to college and university presidencies, championing liberal education as a force for equity.

Author of Lost in Thought and founder of the Catherine Project, which has brought free liberal-arts study to thousands of adult readers worldwide.

Historian of African American thought, president and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation, and former president of Rutgers University.

President emeritus of UMBC and a national leader in expanding minority participation in science, honored with the National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal.

Provost of UT Austin and a historian of foreign policy who served on the National Security Council, bridging scholarship and statecraft.

Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer whose international bestseller These Truths reframed how Americans read their own national history.

President emeritus of Yale and former CEO of Coursera, who co-founded Yale-NUS College and reshaped liberal education for a global era.

Founder of National Affairs and director of constitutional studies at AEI, whose American Covenant argues for the Constitution as a tool of national unity.

President of the American Association of Colleges and Universities and a philosopher whose work links higher education to democracy and public health.

Former President, Middlebury College. President of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a scholar of South Asian religion, poet, and translator of the Bhagavad Gita.

President emeritus of Macalester and author of Whatever It Is, I'm Against It, a pointed diagnosis of why higher education resists reform.

President of Wesleyan and author of Beyond the University, an outspoken public defender of liberal education's importance to democracy.

Editor-in-Chief of the Science family of journals and a chemist who has led both a major research university and the world's premier scientific publication.

Founding president of Heterodox Academy, dedicated to open inquiry and viewpoint diversity across the academy, after a long career at Brown.

President of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars and co-founder of the SEED Foundation, a social entrepreneur focused on civic education.

Former president of Morehouse College and director of the White House HBCU Initiative, author of Hope and Healing on Black colleges and democracy.

Chancellor emeritus of Vanderbilt, who invested deeply in the liberal arts core and launched the transformative Opportunity Vanderbilt financial aid initiative.