Arts & Sciences Advocacy Award

The CCAS Board of Directors has honored the following individuals and organizations with the Arts & Sciences Advocacy Award, in recognition of their exemplary advocacy for the arts and sciences, flowing from a deep commitment to the intrinsic worth of liberal arts education.

2024 – Lynn Pasquerella, AAC&U President
2023 – Joy Connolly, ACLS President

2022 – Freeman A. Hrabowski, III

2021 – Cathy N. Davidson
2020 – Matthew Moen, former President of the Gettysburg Foundation, past CCAS board member
2019 – Beverly Daniel Tatum, President Emerita of Spelman College

2018 – Frederick Lawrence, Secretary & CEO of Phi Beta Kappa Society

2017 – Congressman David E. Price (NC-04) & Congressman Leonard Lance (NJ-07),
            co-chairs of the Congressional Humanities Caucus

2016 – Sylvester James (Jim) Gates

2015 – David J. Skorton

2014 – American Academy of Arts & Sciences 

2013 – Federation of State Humanities Councils

2011 – Deborah Byrd

2010 – American Council of Learned Societies

2009 – Martha Nussbaum

2008 – The Phi Beta Kappa Society