The Civics Alliance, convened by the National Association of Scholars, unites education reformers, policymakers, and every citizen of the United States who wants to preserve civics education that teaches students to take pride in what they share as Americans—an exceptional heritage of freedom, a republic that has succeeded in making liberty a fundamental principle of our government, and the joyful accomplishments of their common national culture.
Initial Signatories of the Civics Alliance
J. Christian Adams, President, Public Interest Legal Foundation
Dean Allen, President, FreedomSource University
Michael Anton, Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute
Mark Bauerlein, Senior Editor, First Things
Jeremy Beer, Chairman, American Ideas Institute
Chris Buskirk, Publisher, American Greatness
Victoria Coates, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy
Tanya Ditty, Vice President of Field Operations, Concerned Women for America
Brandon Dutcher, Senior Vice President, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
Max Eden, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Beth Feeley, Senior Advisor, 1776 Unites, The Woodson Center
Will Fitzhugh, Founder and Editor, The Concord Review
John Fonte, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for American Common Culture, Hudson Institute
Garion Frankel, Policy Director, Texas Federation of College Republicans
Rebecca Friedrichs, Founder & President, For Kids and Country
Jamie Gass, Director of the Center for School Reform, Pioneer Institute
Claudine Geoghegan, Co-Founder and Director of Content & Solutions, Freedom in Education
David Goldman, Columnist, Asia Times and PJ Media
Katharine Gorka, Director of the Feulner Institute’s Center for Civil Society and the American Dialogue, Heritage Foundation
Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for Western Civilization
John Hendrickson, Policy Director, Tax Education Foundation of Iowa
Mark Henrie, President, Arthur N. Rupe Foundation
John Hinderaker, President, Center of the American Experiment
Jacob Howland, Senior Fellow, Tikvah Fund
Deal Hudson, Publisher, The Christian Review
Christopher C. Hull, Senior Fellow, Americans for Intelligence Reform
Robert Jackson, Executive Director, Great Hearts Institute for Classical Education
Christina Jeffrey, President, U.S. Allegiance Institute
Angela Kamrath, President and Editorial Director, American Heritage Education Foundation
S. T. Karnick, Director of Publications, Heartland Institute
Sheryl Kaufman, Corporate Chief Economist (Retired), Phillips Petroleum Company
Katherine Kersten, Senior Policy Fellow, Center of the American Experiment
Roger Kimball, Editor and Publisher, The New Criterion
Stanley Kurtz, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Michael Ledeen, Freedom Scholar, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
George Leef, Director of Editorial Content, The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Thomas Lindsay, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Higher Education and Constitutional Studies, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Clare M. Lopez, Founder/President, Lopez Liberty LLC
Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University
Sue Lucas-Peterson, State Representative, South Dakota
Robert Luebke, Senior Fellow, Center for Effective Education, John Locke Foundation
Harvey Mansfield, Professor Emeritus of Government, Harvard University
Wilfred McClay, G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma
Allen Mendenhall, Associate Dean, Troy University, Sorrell College of Business
Arthur Milikh, Executive Director, The Claremont Institute, Center for the American Way of Life
Nicole Neily, President and Founder, Parents Defending Education
Alain Oliver, Chief Executive Officer, Love and Fidelity Network
Robert Paquette, President, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization
Duke Pesta, Director, FreedomProject Academy
Matthew Peterson, Vice President of Education, The Claremont Institute; Editor, The American Mind
Pete Peterson, Dean, Pepperdine University, Pepperdine School of Public Policy
Shawn Peterson, President, Catholic Education Partners
Juliana Geran Pilon, Senior Fellow, Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization
Julie Ponzi, Senior Editor, American Greatness
Gary Porter, Executive Director, Constitution Leadership Initiative, Inc.
David W. Preston, Executive Director, Oklahoma Wesleyan University Foundation
Joy Pullman, Executive Editor, The Federalist
Paul du Quenoy, President and Publisher, Academica Press
Paul Rahe, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage, Hillsdale College
Theodore Rebarber, CEO, American Achievement Testing
Steven Reick, State Representative, Illinois House of Representatives
Craig Rhyne, President, Freedom Education Foundation, Inc.
Sandy Rios, Director of Governmental Affairs, American Family Association
Jane Robbins, Senior Fellow (retired), American Principles Project
Jenna Robinson, President, The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Asaf Romirowsky, Executive Director, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
Christopher Rufo, Director, Center on Wealth and Poverty
Maegen Satcher, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction, St. Johns Classical Academy
Gilbert T. Sewall, Director, American Textbook Council
Karen Siegemund, President, American Freedom Alliance
Eunie Smith, President Emeritus, Eagle Forum
Bonnie Snyder, Director of High School Outreach, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Terry Stoops, Director of the Center for Effective Education, John Locke Foundation
Sandra Stotsky, 21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality, Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas
Kevin Stuart, Executive Director, Austin Institute
Kendall Svengalis, President, New England LawPress
Carol M. Swain, Professor of Political Science and Law (retired), Vanderbilt University
Jeremy Tate, Founder/CEO, Classic Learning Test
Virginia Thomas, President, Liberty Consulting
Erin Tuttle, Co-Founder, Hoosiers Against Common Core
Brandon Weichert, Geopolitical Analyst and Author, The Washington Times
Keith Whitaker, Chairman, National Association of Scholars
Ryan Williams, President, The Claremont Institute
Peter Wood, President, National Association of Scholars
Robert Woodson, Founder and President, Woodson Center
Wenyuan Wu, Executive Director, Californians for Equal Rights
Scott Yenor, Washington Fellow, Claremont Institute Center for the American Way of Life; Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
Signatories of the Civics Alliance sign as individuals. Organizational affiliations and positions are listed for identification purposes only.
The Mission Statement Act commits every component of the public university system to the free and unpoliticized pursuit of truth.