The Trouble with the Academy
April 27-29, 1990
Chicago, Illinois

Program

Friday, April 27
7:00 - 9:00 Dinner
Lowell C. Smith, Chairman
John Silber, Boston University
Saturday, April 28
8:30 - 9:30 Annual Breakfast Meeting of the Membership (Members only)
10:00 - 11:30 Classical Learning and the Content of Education
Leonard P. Liggio, Chairman
J. Rufus Fears, Boston University
Thomas Fleming, The Rockford Institute
E. Christian Kopff, University of Colorado
12:00 - 1:45 Luncheon
Joseph A. Morris, Chairman
Presidential Address: Forrest McDonald
2:00 - 3:30 The Federal Burden: The Behemoth
W. W. Hill, Chairman
Peter Brimelow, Forbes
John A. Howard, The Rockford Institute
George C. Roche III, Hillsdale College
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:15 Some Cheerful Prospects
Robert L. Schuettinger, Chairman
Stephen H. Balch, National Association of Scholars
T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Eugene B. Meyer, The Federalist Society
Sunday, April 27
8:30 - 11:00 Buffet Breakfast - Counterrevolution in Eastern Europe
Ernest van den Haag; Chairman
Morton C. Blackwell, The Leadership Institute
Tibor Machan, Auburn University
H. Joachim Maitre, Boston University
Juliana Geran Pilon, National Forum Foundation
David E. T. Somerville, National Citizens' Coalition