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CANDACE DE RUSSY
Dr. Candace de Russy is a nationally recognized writer and lecturer on education and cultural issues.
A former college professor, she was appointed to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy by President George W. Bush in 2002;
in 2005, when her term ended, she received the Air Force’s Exceptional Service Award.
Dr. de Russy was a member of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York from 1995 to 2007.
For several years she served on the SUNY Board’s Executive Committee and chaired its Academic Standards Committee;
she was a member of its Charter Schools, Legal and Hospitals Committees.
In 2005 she joined the Ave Maria University Board of Regents and in 2006 she was appointed as chair of that Board.
In 2006 she received the Barry R. Gross Memorial Award from the National Association of Scholars. The award is bestowed on an NAS member for outstanding service to the cause of academic reform.
In 2004 Dr. de Russy was named an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., where she focuses on governance, strategic planning, assessment, accountability, funding and other issues in higher education. In 2007 she was named a Senior Research Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a Contributing Editor at Family Security Matters.
In 2005 she became a member of the Committee on the Present Danger, which is dedicated to protecting and expanding democracy by winning the global war against terrorism and the movements and ideologies that drive it.
In 2004 she co-founded and became Chairman of Democracy Project, whose
mission it is to strengthen the institutions and contentions that support
liberty and democratic rule at home and abroad. (http://www.democracy-project.com/).
Throughout a career that has had at its center a deep commitment to the improvement of higher, secondary and elementary education, Dr. de Russy has led efforts to raise academic standards, strengthen general education, promote school choice, and bring accountability and efficiency to the academy. She has also focused on human rights, First Amendment, national security and Catholic topics.
Dr. de Russy holds a doctorate in French from Tulane University, a Master of Arts from Middlebury College's Sorbonne-based program and a B.A. from St. Mary’s Dominican College of New Orleans.
A former Trustee of Westchester Community College, Dr. de Russy is currently a member of the Trustees Council of the American Council of Trustees and
Alumni as well as a member and treasurer of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars.
She serves on the advisory boards of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the Independent Women's Forum, and the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. From 2000 to 2002 she served on the advisory board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. She is a member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics and other professional societies.
A regular contributor to National Review Online’s Phi Beta Cons, Dr. de Russy has been published in National Review Online, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Academic Questions, Minding the Campus, The New York Post, The New York Sun, Albany Times Union, The City Journal, Front Page Magazine, Pajamas Media, Heterodoxy, The Women’s Quarterly, and other publications.
As an outspoken critic of the academic credentials of a college conference titled “Revolting Behavior: The Challenges of Women’s Sexual Freedom,” Dr. de Russy was featured in a segment on 60 Minutes.. She has also publicly criticized the lowering of academic standards in a variety of multicultural studies, regarding which she was interviewed on The The O’Reilly Factor. She has appeared on C-SPAN and has been the subject of feature articles in New York Times, Associated Press,
Village Voice, and other publications. In the inaugural issue ofMs. Magazine she was described as a “woman to watch out for.”
She previously served as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. Dr. de Russy was Executive Officer of the American Foundation for Resistance International, an organization that concentrated on reporting and opposing human rights abuses in totalitarian states. She was also a speaker on defense issues for the National Strategy Information Center.
Dr. de Russy has delivered talks on a range of educational and cultural issues, teaching a college seminar on “America and Historical Decline” and commenting on education for radio stations Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, WAMC in Central New York State, and True North in Vermont.
