REDEFINING CLASSICS

Claudia MacMillan–Ph.D., Literature, the University of Dallas. MacMillan serves as the Founder and Executive Director of The MacMillan Institute: a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to prepare public school educators to provide all public-school children in the traditional public schools—beginning with students in historically underserved communities—
with a liberal education worthy of the lives of individuals who comprise the communities of democracy.

MacMillan began teaching in secondary education in 1981. Her professional career includes administrative roles, including serving as department chair, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction, and Associate Headmaster at the secondary level. At the university level, she was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Associate Dean of both the graduate and undergraduate
colleges of liberal arts at the University of Dallas. She was mentored by and earned her graduate degrees under Dr. Louise Cowan—co-creator with her husband, the physicist Dr. Donald Cowan—of the transformative educational philosophy of the “spirit of liberal learning” for all that shapes the programming of The MacMillan Institute.

MacMillan’s current book project is Beyond Measure: Education That Will Change the World. This work is an explication of the fundamental tenets of the Cowan School of Thought and the Cowans’ distinctive theory of the liberal learning.