Core Texts

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The Association for Core Texts and Courses, ACTC, was first formed because of the efforts of Stephen Zelnick and Scott Lee of Temple University in the fall and spring of 1994. Zelnick, now Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, had, at the time, recently become director of Temple's core-text Intellectual Heritage program. He began to consider what sort of professional organization might be developed to fill the need for addressing the scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative issues involved in undergraduate core text curricula. He asked Lee to join him in the development of such an organization and together they organized the first conference, in 1995, of what was to become an important liberal arts professional association for North American institutions of higher education. Speaking to the Association five years later, Zelnick remarked, "When I look back , it is clear to me that much of ACTC's success results from the membership. Our model from the beginning was democratic all the way. We depended on the people coming to our conference to provide intelligent presentations and discussion and, most important, to work in a collegial manner." Zelnick was right.

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