The Jack Miller Center
| Legal status | Non-profit 501(c)3 |
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| Purpose | Higher Education Development |
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United States |
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Chairman
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Jack Miller |
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8 |
| Website | http://www.jackmillercenter.org |
The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History (JMC) is nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that provides resources to college educators interested in fostering the development of academic programs designed to teach and study the American founding and Western political philosophy. The Jack Miller Center was established in Philadelphia in September 2007 by Jack Miller, a prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist. Mr. Miller was the founder of the Quill Corporation, a direct-mail office supply company, which was sold to Staples, Inc. in 1998. As of September 1, 2011, the Jack Miller Center had nearly 500 faculty partners on 179 college campuses, and is supporting 44 partner programs at Ivy League Institutions, flagship state universities and leading liberal arts colleges across the United States.
The Jack Miller Center has developed a number of programs designed to facilitate faculty development and student engagement in Western philosophy and American studies.
The flagship initiative and point of entry into the Jack Miller Center faculty development program is a series of annual national Faculty Development Institutes at major university campuses. These institutes stimulate academic course and program development, provide young professors and post-doctoral students focused workshops on strategies to secure tenure and career advancement, and create a network of emerging and renowned academics committed to the common goal of teaching America's founding principles.
The institutes give young professors and advanced graduate students an opportunity to come together for two weeks of intellectual, cultural and academic seminars and discussions. Led by established scholars, institute Fellows participate in seminars that examine the central ideas and questions surrounding American political development. Seminars help participants develop new ideas for original research and fresh approaches to the questions that have long animated discussions of American society. In addition, the seminars offer participants the chance to observe the teaching methods of more experienced scholars and professors.
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