1 MICHAEL B



MICHAEL B. POLIAKOFF

American Council of Trustees and Alumni

1730 M Street NW

Washington, D.C. 20036

mpoliakoff@

202-467-6787

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2016-present President

American Council of Trustees and Alumni (Washington, DC)

2010-2016 Vice President of Policy

American Council of Trustees and Alumni (Washington, DC)

2009. Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research

University of Colorado System (Denver, CO)

2002-2007 Director of the Division of Education Programs/Senior Executive Service

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (Washington, DC)

2002. President

National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) (Washington, DC)

2000-2001 Executive Director

American Academy for Liberal Education (Washington DC)

1999. Deputy Secretary for Postsecondary and Higher Education

Pennsylvania Department of Education (Harrisburg, PA)

1996. Associate Dean

Bloomsburg University (Bloomsburg, PA)

1995. Program Officer

National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington, DC)

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

1994 George Washington University (Washington, DC) Adjunct Visiting Professor

1993-1994 Georgetown University (Washington, DC) Adjunct Associate Professor

1987-1992 Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, MI) Professor and Chair

1981-1987 Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA) Assistant Professor

1980 University of Illinois (Chicago) Visiting Lecturer

2019 George Mason University (Virginia) Adjunct Professor

EDUCATION

Institution Date Degree Major

University of Michigan 1981 PhD Classical Studies

Oxford University 1978 BA Class I literae humaniores

Yale University 1975 BA magna cum laude Classical Studies

FELLOWSHIPS, RECOGNITION, HONORS

1999 Pennsylvania Department of Education Distinguished Service to Education Award

1999 Reverend Jesse Anderson Award for Service to Students

1993 NEH Special Achievement Award

1991 American Philological Association Excellence in Teaching Award

1985 Alexander von Humboldt Stipendium

1984-1985 Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship

1980-1981 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship

1975-1978 Rhodes Scholarship

SELECT PUBLIC AND MEDIA APPEARANCES

April 24, 2018 Ashbrook Center, Ashland University. “Freedom of Thought,

Freedom of Speech, The Heritage of Western Civilization

Nov. 30, 2017 Kansas State, “Athens and Beyond. Freedom of Speech, Freedom

of the Intellectual.”

April 8, 2016 Texas Tech, “What Was Exceptional About the Ancient Olympics?”

March 7, 2016 Hillsdale College, “Sport and Character Lecture Series.”

December 9, 2015. Diane Rehm Show, “Supreme Court Considers Affirmative Action”

August 26, 2013; 1/28/2014; 9/ 9/2015; 10/5/2015; 5/18/2016; 8/26/2016. Wall Street

Journal Live/ Opinion Journal with Mary Kissel

June 28, 2012. Hudson Institute, “What Would Jefferson Do?”

September 21, 2011.Texas State Legislature Joint Oversight Committee on Higher Ed

May 2010. Colorado Christian University, “Civilization and Savagery: Virgil

for Today.”

April 22, 2010 Kansas State University, Department of History, “Games, Contests,

Violence and Culture: Sport and Competition in the Ancient

February 15, 2009 The Robinson Jeffers Society. “Experiments in Aeschylus.”

November 4, 2006 Hegler Carus Foundation, “The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Education,” La Salle, Illinois.

September 22, 2005 President’s Inauguration Panel, St. Mary’s College of California.

“The Liberal Arts Tradition,” Moraga, California.

August 2004 PBS/BBC/CBC, consulting scholar for “The Real Olympics,”

Directed by Antony Thomas. Johannesburg, South Africa.

April 2004 Amherst College, Committee for the American Founding,

Competition, Democracy, and the Greek Miracle.” Amherst, MA.

March 5, 2002. White House Conference on Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers.

July 19, 1996. Chautauqua Institution lecture, “Past and Present at Olympia.”

SELECT PUBLICATIONS (complete list available on request)

Classical Studies

2019 (forthcoming) “Greek Combat Sport and the Borders of Athletics, Violence, and

Civilization,” in the Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient

World, edited by Thomas Scanlon and Alison Futrell (Oxford University Press).

2018 Review of Christian Mann, Sofie Remijsen, Sebastian Scharff (ed.), Athletics in

the Hellenistic World. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. Bryn Mawr

Classical Review, 2018.03.33.

2014 Review of A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in the Greek and Roman World,

ed. Paul Christesen and Donald Kyle (Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.11.38

2013 “Athletics,” The Virgil Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski,

(Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

2010 “Civilization and Savagery: Virgil for Today, Centennial Review 2.4, May 2010.

2007 Review of Ad Infinitum, by Nicholas Ostler (London: Walker and Co., 2007) in The Wall Street Journal (Saturday/Sunday, December 8-9, 2007) W12.

2006 Review of A Loeb Classical Library Reader (Cambridge: Harvard University

Press, 2006) in The Wall Street Journal (Saturday/Sunday, April 8-9, 2006) P9.

2004 “Ancient Combat Sports,” Archaeology Odyssey 7.4 (July/August 2004) 42-54.

2004 Review of Ancient Greek Athletics, by Stephen G. Miller (New Haven: Yale

University Press 2004) in The Washington Times, June 13, 2004.

2002 “Competition,” in Gab es das Griechische Wunder. Griechenland zwischen dem

Ende des 6 und der Mitte des 5 Jahrhunderts v. Chr. ed. Dietrich Papenfuss and

Volker Michael Strocka (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2001) 51-6.

1987 Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Culture (New

Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, paperback edition 1995; German edition

1989).

ACTA Publications

2017 Campus Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Problem of the BDS

Movement, with Joel Griffith

2016 No U.S. History? How College History Departments Leave

the United States out of the Major, with Drew Lakin and Marya Myers

2016 The Crisis of Civic Education, with William Gonch.

2015 The Cost of Chaos in the Curriculum, with Elizabeth Capaldi Phillips.

2015 The Unkindest Cut. Shakespeare in Exile 2015, with ACTA staff.

2014 Getting What You Pay For? A Look at America’s Top Ranked Public Universities,

with Armand Alacbay.

2014 Education or Reputation. A Look at America’s Top-Ranked Liberal Arts Colleges,

with Armand Alacbay.

2013 Florida Rising. An Assessment of Public Universities in the Sunshine State,

with Armand Alacbay.

2012 The Diffusion of Light and Education. Meeting the Challenges of Higher

Education in Virginia, with Armand Alacbay.

2012 Best Laid Plans. The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Higher Education in

California, with Armand Alacbay.

2011 The Intelligent Donor’s Guide to College Giving, 2nd edition, with Anne Neal.

2010-present What Will They Learn? A Survey of Core Requirements at our Nation’s Colleges and Universities, with ACTA staff.

2010 Cutting Costs. A Trustee’s Guide to Tough Economic Times.

2003 Teachers Who Can: How Informed Trustees Can Ensure Teacher Quality, with

ACTA staff.

Education Policy

2014 “Civilization, Play, Education,” Journal of School Choice 8.3 (2014) pp. 545-547.

2009 “Openness, Transparency, and Accountability: Fostering Public Trust in Higher

Education,” with Senator Hank Brown and John Cooney. In ed. Robert Maranto,

Reforming the Politically Correct University (Washington, D.C.: American

Enterprise Institute, 2009).

2003 “Teacher Quality Leadership from Public Charter Schools,” National Charter

School Clearinghouse Review 1.3 (July 2003) 37-41.

2001 “Mastering the Basics,” Philanthropy 15.6 (October 2001) 22-25.

SELECT ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

2014-2015 Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance (ACSFA)

2012-present Street Smart, Inc. Board of Directors

2008-present Colorado Fatherhood Initiative, (volunteer) consultant for

capacity-building, outreach, and external support.

2009-2011 Colorado Calvert Charter School: Founding Board Member

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