National Association of Scholars honors Marshall Center as an "excellent program"

The National Association of Scholars has recognized the John Marshall International Center for the Study of Statesmanship as one of its "excellent programs," an exemplar among scholarly centers nationwide. The Marshall Center is housed at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. The Center is directed by Gary L. McDowell and Terry L. Price.

According to NAS:

"The John Marshall International Center for the Study of Statesmanship approaches the study and practice of statesmanship through a program that combines scholarly and practical attention to constitutionalism, political economy, politics, and ethical reasoning. At its core is a great-books approach to both understanding and practicing responsible leadership.

The center implements the great-books approach through seminars and conferences and hosts a series of public lecturers from around the world who speak on the problems and prospects of leadership in international perspective. A vital part of the center's work includes visiting post-doctoral fellows who pursue their research within the context of the history of political, legal, economic, and constitutional ideas."

NAS is an independent membership association of academics working to foster intellectual freedom and to sustain the tradition of reasoned scholarship and civil debate in America’s colleges and universities.

The organization was founded in 1987 with the intention of involving university faculty members from across the political spectrum to help defend the core values of liberal education.

One of the ways NAS works for higher education reform is to build and encourage the development of specialized programs that fill a gap in today's college curriculum. Such programs offer courses in subjects that NAS considers have been largely neglected by mainstream institutions: American history and freedom, constitutionalism, Western civilization, free markets, great Books, and civic leadership.

NAS maintains a database of these campus-based programs. The complete list of Excellent Programs