Governing Board and Officers

ACTC is a membership driven professional association concerned with the improvement of liberal education through the use of core texts. Membership is open to all who have an interest in liberal education and is determined before each annual meeting to be those who have paid their annual contributory dues on or before the opening of the annual conference. Corporate, institutional membership is also available, determined by the contribution of an institution to ACTC on or before the annual conference.

Each member is entitled to vote on each matter submitted to the membership during its annual business meeting or through a specially called election. A corporate member may designate one representative to vote in all membership meetings and specially called elections. No person may exercise two votes.

Members are called upon to vote for both the Advisory Board representatives and the Officers of ACTC. Nominations to the Board may come from the membership or the Advisory Board. The Officers are President, Treasurer, and Executive Director.

ACTC Advisory Board

• Brent Cejda, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska
• Kathy Eden, Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
• Michael Dink, Dean, St. John’s College
• Margaret Downes, Professor, University of North Carolina at Asheville
• Richard Kamber, Professor of Philosophy, College of New Jersey, President of ACTC
• Bruce Kimball, Professor, School of Education Policy, Ohio State University
• Dale Larson, Director of Finance, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary
• Anne Leavitt, Dean, Vancouver Island University
• J. Scott Lee, Executive Director, ACTC and ACTC Liberal Arts Institute at the Saint Mary’s College of California
• Mark Schwehn, Provost and Executive Vice President, Valparaiso University
• Phillip R. Sloan, past President; Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame
• Frances Sweeney, Vice Provost, Saint Mary’s College of California
• Norma Thompson, Associate Director, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
• Grant Venerable, Provost and Senior Vice President, Emeritus, Lincoln University

ACTC Officers

• Richard Kamber, Professor of Philosophy, The College of New Jersey, President of ACTC
• J. Scott Lee, Executive Director, ACTC and ACTC Liberal Arts Institute at the Saint Mary’s College of California
• Dale Larson, Treasurer, University of Dallas, Dallas Theological Seminary