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As part of Shimer College’s public lecture series, J. Scott Lee presents his lecture “Rethinking Universities & Hutchins: Faculty and Student Resistance to Core Text Curricula.” In it Lee discusses the ACTC (or Association for Core Texts and Courts), an organization which he is a co-founder and executive director. Lee describes how the organization promotes individuals and groups in the journey to achieve general study, in and out of schools, of texts that have proven to be classic or particularly significant to our cultural canon. They hope to advance liberal education through the integration of core texts into general educational institutions. Finally, Lee also touches on the importance of reading Robert Maynard Hutchins as a source of self-assessment for institutions and of understanding about the Great Books program.
During the question and answer session, he discusses the conferences his program hosts annually and how liberal education is exhibited in a “persuasively experiential” way through panels with short papers on the idea of core text curricula. He also shares a letter from a professor at Notre Dame who shared that her students from ND's Program of Liberal Studies were dual-majoring in many different topics and broad-minded in their future pursuits.