The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) was founded in 1995 by Lynne Cheney. Cheney is no longer actively involved in the organization. In November 2001 it released a report titled Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It. Lynne Ann Vincent Cheney (born August 14, 1941) is the wife of Vice President Richard B. Cheney. ...

Governance

Current members of the national council of ACTA are: Jacques Barzun, William Bennett, Chester Finn, Georgie Geyer, Irving Kristol, Richard Lamm, Hans Mark, Philip Merrill, Martin Peretz, Laurence Silberman, William Tell, Curtin Winsor, and Herman Wells. Jacques Martin Barzun (born November 30, 1907 - 2005) continues to be a leading voice in the fields of literature, education, and cultural history. ... William Bennett on NBCs Meet the Press William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. ... Irving Kristol (born 1920) is considered the founder of American neoconservatism. ... Richard Douglas Dick Lamm (born 1935 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American politician and lawyer. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Philip Merrill is involved in media, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and various other professional and academic happenings in the US. In 2001 Merrill donated US $10 million to the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park which now bears his name. ... Martin Peretz (also Marty Peretz) is a Harvard lecturer who is co-owner [1] and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, which he purchased in 1975. ... Laurence Silberman is an American judge, formerly a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals. ... A statue erected in honor of Wells and placed at Herman B Wells Plaza on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington Herman B Wells (June 7, 1902 – March 18, 2000) was the 11th president of Indiana University. ...

Former members of the national council include: Saul Bellow, Joseph Lieberman, and David Riesman. Bellow as depicted in his Nobel diploma. ... Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is a Jewish-American Democratic politician and a current U.S. senator from Connecticut. ... David Riesman (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1909; died in Binghamton, New York, May 10, 2002), was an United States sociologist, attorney, and educator. ...

External links

• ACTA homepage
• Source Watch entry on ACTA