Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education

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First awarded 2005		Official website www.goacta.org
Awarded for Advancement of liberal arts education Location Washington, District of Columbia Presented by American Council of Trustees and Alumni

The Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education is an annual prize given by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni to an individual who has “made an extraordinary contribution to the advancement of liberal arts education, core curricula, and the teaching of Western civilization and American history.” The award is named for the late public servant, publisher, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Philip Merrill.

Merrill was a trustee of Cornell University, the University of Maryland Foundation, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the Aspen Institute, as well as a member of the National Council of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

Winners

2005: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University

2006: Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, Harvard University

2007: Gertrude Himmelfarb, Professor Emerita, City University of New York

2008: Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of History and Classics, Yale University

2009: K.C. Johnson, Professor of History, Brooklyn College

2010: Benno Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, City University of New York

2011: David McCullough, independent scholar

2012: Tom Rollins, founder of the Teaching Company

2013: Gary Gallagher, Professor of History, University of Virginia

2014: Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society

2015: Hank Brown, former Republican politician and U.S. Senator from Colorado who served as president of the University of Colorado system from April 2005 to January 2008.

2016: Niall Ferguson and Ayaan Hirsi Ali

References

Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education Wikipedia

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