The American Legion awarded Jack Miller their most distinguished honor on August 27

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Jack Miller Receives The American Legion's Distinguished Service Medal
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On August 27, 2024, Jack Miller, the founding chairman of the Jack Miller Center, was awarded the prestigious Distinguished Service Medal by The American Legion for his outstanding philanthropic contributions and unwavering commitment to advancing American citizenship and education.

The Distinguished Service Medal is the highest honor bestowed by The American Legion, recognizing individuals and organizations that have performed outstanding service to the nation and to programs of The American Legion. Previous recipients include military leaders such as George Marshall and Colin Powell, icons of American culture like Bob Hope and Babe Ruth, and multiple U.S. Presidents including Ronald Reagan and Harry Truman.
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"During the course of my business careers, I have received a number of honors, but this is by far, by far the best," Mr. Miller said to thousands in the audience at The American Legion's annual convention in New Orleans. "The reason that this honor is so meaningful to me is because one of the reasons that you have for giving this honor to someone is – and I'm quoting you now – 'to recognize individuals and organizations that have performed outstanding service to the nation.'

Individuals and organizations. So, on accepting this award, I do so both as an individual and for the Jack Miller Center, an organization dedicated to reintroducing and reinforcing the teaching of America's founding principles and history throughout our educational system, from K-12 through college."
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The Editorial Board//Wall Street Journal

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Last month, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board published an opinion piece on the new School of Civic Life and Leadership ([link removed]) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and its director, Miller Fellow Jed Atkins ([link removed]) :
"With all the dismaying news from college campuses lately, at least there’s one new bright spot for traditional liberal thought: The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill is opening the doors at its new school committed to free expression, after hiring 11 faculty, including seven tenure-line positions..."

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Paul Carrese//Law & Liberty
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Senior Fellow for Civic Thought and Leadership Paul Carrese ([link removed]) writes on renewing civics in higher education:

"One constructive response in recent years to the
[link removed] level ([link removed]) ofhttps://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-ed-has-a-credibility-problempublic distrust ([link removed]) of American higher education has been the candid admission by educators from center-left to center-right of the failure to educate young Americans in the civic

knowledge and civic virtues necessary for the challenges of self-government, informed civic participation, and reasonable disagreement across divergent views.

The protests only confirm this concern. Again, the student interest in larger moral purpose and civic participation cannot redeem the dark, illiberal core of the demonstrations. The basic truth is that too many students—and faculty and administrators—are too susceptible to extreme, anti-academic practices that undermine the reasonable discourse and civil disagreement that should define higher education, and which in turn prepares students to lead and contribute in a healthy American civic life.

Educators, trustees, alumni, and donors must connect this campus dysfunction to the larger problem of America’s angry polarization—itself caused in part by higher education’s abandonment of traditional civic education..."
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Kayla Bartsch//National Review

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National Review ([link removed]) 's Kayla Bartsch reports on the University of Florida's Hamilton Center ([link removed]) , headed by JMC scholar William Inboden, and the growing Schools of Civic Thought ([link removed]) movement:
"According to Inboden, scholarly rigor and a commitment to undergraduate teaching were the leading factors in the center’s hiring process.

'We want to depoliticize academic hiring and teaching and research,' he says. 'A lot of what we’re doing at Hamilton is pre-political. These are much deeper values and questions that we’re looking at.' The conversations that stem from studying the classics do not 'necessarily lead to a specific predetermined outcome on whom you vote for or where you stand on a particular issue.'"

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Hans Zeiger//Modern Age
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Hans Zeiger reviewsGateway to Citizenship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill, ([link removed]) edited by John A. Burtka IV.

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n my mid-twenties, I found myself at a crossroads. Down one path, if I stayed the course as a graduate student in political science, I could pursue a life in academia. Down another path, I could go back to my hometown in Washington state to challenge an eight-year incumbent for a swing-district legislative seat. I chose the latter and won that election by a mere twenty-nine votes out of fifty-two thousand cast. Every vote matters!

Over the next dozen years I spent in public service—as a member of the State House and Senate and then my county legislative body—I probably learned more about politics than I would have if I had stayed the course in that political science Ph.D. program.

I found political life thrilling. Every day was an opportunity to learn something new, and the subjects to be explored were wide-ranging..."
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The Jack Miller Center is an educational venture committed to solving the crisis of uninformed citizenship by teaching America’s founding principles and history. We aim to expand the pipeline of scholars dedicated to teaching America’s founding principles and history, to seed and cultivate college campus centers for the study of the American political tradition, and to advance the teaching of American citizenship in K-12 schools centered around our history and foundational texts.

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