Professor William B. Allen, a professor of Political Philosophy at Michigan State University was on leave as the Ann & Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program on American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton for 2006-07. He is an expert on liberal arts education, its history, importance and problems. He is also Chairman and co-founder of Toward A Fair Michigan, whose mission is to further understanding of the equal opportunity issues involved in guaranteeing civil rights for all citizens, and to provide a civic forum for a fair and open exchange of views on the question of affirmative action.
He served previously on the National Council for the Humanities and as Chairman and Member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He has published extensively, most notably, George Washington: A Collection. His Re-Thinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of H. B. Stowe, should appear in the coming year, as also George Washington: American-General-Thinker-President-Believer-Slaveholder-Founder-Statesman. He previously published Habits of Mind: Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher Education (with Carol M. Allen).
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