Benefits of Institutional Membership

The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) supports students, faculty, administrators, and institutions that share our commitment to education through conversations grounded in books and texts from the world’s intellectual traditions. 

Institutional Membership: For institutions with Core Text programs, Honors Colleges, or strong core curricular requirements, institutional membership in ACTC is one of the most cost-effective investments a college dean, chair, or administrator can make.  For $1500 annually, institutional membership offers faculty, students, and administrators an array of professional and institutional development opportunities. We hope that you will consider joining ACTC as an institutional member.

Opportunities for Undergraduates: ACTC actively engages with college students through various undergraduate specific events and programs, such as an online seminar series and opportunities to study abroad over the summer. ACTC also provides a means for students to publish their work in its undergraduate journal, Agora.

Graduate Students: ACTC supports graduate students at member schools through its conference and publication programs. Graduate students are eligible for a deeply discounted registration fee for our annual conference, and are invited to a grad student-only networking reception at the conference. Graduate students may also submit work to be considered for our Substack. Advanced graduate students who have already embarked on their teaching careers may also apply to participation in our faculty development workshops.

Faculty and Administrators: ACTC hosts events that foster the creation of academic faculty and administrator networks while providing a forum for the discussion and sharing of expertise through panels, seminars, conferences, and the publication of select conference papers through its academic publishing partner Mercer University Press. These conferences are conducted domestically and internationally for academics and undergraduate students. ACTC offers faculty lectios (weekend conferences focused on one important book), online faculty development workshops on seminar pedagogy and primary text curricula, and administrative development workshops for administrators who oversee core programs.We are launching a podcast and Substack in 2026 to which faculty and administrators at ACTC member schools will be invited to contribute.

We are Expanding: In 2025-26, ACTC will conduct more programming, nationally and internationally, than at any other time in its 30-year history. Hundreds of students, faculty, and institutions will participate in our conferences, seminars, and an array or other online and in-person programming.

Providing Resources for Members: ACTC also provides institutional members with resources in the form of consultation, grants, open information, faculty development seminars, and assessment services to faculty and administrators who currently oversee or are seeking to implement core text programs for undergraduate education.