Adam Kissel

Director of Civic and Higher Education Programs at The Philanthropy Roundtable

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March 20, 2019

University of Transformation: Michael Crow at Arizona State University

Adam Kissel

Through actions, words, and a transformative vision, President Michael Crow has made Arizona State University one of only fourteen institutions to receive the highest free speech rating from the Found......

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December 21, 2011

Will Universities Rediscover Their Core Mission as They Shrink?

Adam Kissel

Adam Kissel adds to the conversation about the higher education bubble by examining several institutions with widely varying missions that are already contracting. He predicts “that as universit......

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February 17, 2021

New ACLU Head Has a Civil Rights Problem Back Home

Adam Kissel

Deborah Archer is the new president of the American Civil Liberties Union, but she doesn't exactly have a history of protecting civil rights at her other workplace, NYU Law.

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September 8, 2014

Revisiting the Classics: Joan and Peter by H. G. Wells

Adam Kissel

"Oswald’s concern—Wells’s, too—is that a fully unregulated marketplace of ideas, the open curriculum, if you will, has no telos."

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January 14, 2009

How the Dorms Are Politicized: The Case of the University of Delaware

Adam Kissel

This paper was presented by Adam Kissel at a panel at the National Association of Scholars general conference in Washington, DC, on January 11, 2009. Kissel is the director of the Individual Rights De......

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