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Pictorial Essay

Liftetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2023-24

Dr. Larry Arnn

DR. SHAYAMA CHONA (2012)
GULAB RAMCHANDANI (2012)
DR. AUGUSTINE & GRACE PINTO
(2013)
SUMER SINGH (2013)
DR. ACHYUTA SAMANTA(2013)
SANJIT (BUNKER) ROY (2014)
LT. GEN. (RETD) ARJUN RAY (2014)
SHOMIE DAS (2014)
DR. RAMDAS PAI (2015)
DR. B.S. RAO (2015)
M.V. MUTHURAMALINGAM (2015)
CAPT. RAJ MOHINDRA (2016)
DR. P.C. THOMAS (2016)
Dr. Larry Arnn receives award & citation DR. R. VARADARAJAN (2016)
from EducationWorld's Dilip Thakore, JAYASHREE MOHTA (2017)
Summiya Yasmeen & Bhavin Shah

cholar, author, educator and political activist, Salvation of Free Government (2015). Currently under Dr.
graduate of Arkansas State University, Claremont Arnn's leadership, Hillsdale College's Center for Construc-
SGraduate School, USA, London School of Economics tive Alternatives publishes Imprimis, the college's national
and Oxford University, Dr. Larry P. Arnn is the President digest which has a monthly circulation of 5.3 million.
of Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA (estb.1844). During In addition to serving as president, Dr. Arnn is professor
a long and distinguished career, Dr. Arnn served for of politics and history at Hillsdale College, teaching courses
five years as Director of Research to the late Sir Martin on Aristotle, Winston Churchill, 20th Century Totalitarian
Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill. In 1980, novels, and the American Constitution. Simultaneously, he
Dr. Arnn returned to the US and was appointed President is editor of The Churchill Documents, a sub-series of the
of the Claremont Institute, an education and research official biography of Winston Churchill, begun in 1962 by
institution based in Southern California (1985-2000). Randolph Churchill and recently published by Hillsdale
While at Claremont, he was also the Founding-Chairman College Press. The official biography of Winston Churchill
of the California Civil Rights Initiative prohibiting racial is the largest biography of its genre, and under Dr. Arnn's
preferences in government employment, contracting, and direction, publication of its 23rd and final volume was
academic admissions. completed in 2019.
Currently, Dr. Arnn is on the board of directors of the “Education is the most important statement we make
Heritage Foundation, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, for the future. Although it may not seem the most urgent
and Claremont Institute, after having served on the US in the present, finally it is the most urgent priority of any
Army War College Board of Visitors for two years. In 2020, nation or community. It contains our authoritative state-
he was appointed chairman of President Donald Trump's ments of what we are and ought to be,” says Dr. Arnn.
1776 Commission, established to restore an understand- Looking ahead, Dr. Arnn believes there's high potential
ing of the history and founding principles of education for educational co-operation between the world's oldest
in the United States. The 1776 Commission Report was and most populous democracies. “India is a young, thriv-
published in early 2021 for which he was conferred the ing, free country. Indo-US co-operation is the most im-
Edmund Burke Award, 2022 for Service to Culture and portant opportunity for the future of the world. Our two
Society by The New Criterion magazine. nations are very different, but also alike in this decisive
A widely read and respected columnist of several na- respect: We share a common commitment to democracy
tional newspapers, magazines and periodicals on issues of and humanity.”
public policy, history and political theory, Dr. Arnn has au- For his deep scholarship, continuous service to educa-
thored three non-fiction books: Liberty and Learning: The tion and commitment to civil rights of citizens of the Unit-
Evolution of American Education (2004); The Founders' ed States and beyond, the Board of Directors and Editors
Key: The Divine and Natural Connection between the Dec- of EducationWorld are privileged to confer our Lifetime
laration and the Constitution and What We Risk by Losing Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2023-24 on
It (2012); and Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Dr. Larry P. Arnn.

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