- April 2026
“Our mission at ACLS is to advance humanistic inquiry and create better conditions for undertaking it. We have come to see that part of creating those conditions is speaking out – describing its value in language that everyone can understand and appreciate. Our goal is not to shout into the void, but to identify people we can reach and tell the story of our intrinsic and instrumental value again and again.”
Statements
- ACLS Statement on the National Call to Action Issued by the US Secretary of Education
“We call on Secretary McMahon and all readers of her letter to stand with us in support of this vital knowledge and for the funding it deserves. We call on the administration to support a vision of the university as the training ground for democratic citizenship, for the solving of challenges from plutocracy to the rise of artificial intelligence, and for broad learning about the full spectrum of human endeavor, past and present. “
