The Academy Purpose
The Academy is a not-for-profit corporation in support of the University of Illinois to promote and advance scholarly research and teaching about the principles of free market capitalism, individual rights, individual responsibility, limited government, entrepreneurship and enterprise as the foundation of a productive and successful society.
The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Foundation encourages and enables visionary friends of the University of Illinois to endow chairs, professorships, scholarships and fellowships and to support lectures and symposia, curricular development, research activites and publication of findings through private gifts. The ACLG Foundation is overseen by a board of directors providing grants for programs, research and activites on the University of Illinois campus in response to proposals solicited of or submitted by faculty.
Our Founding Fathers subscribed to and advocated an enlightened yet limited government, one that vigorously promotes political freedom and economic opportunity, one that anticipates and nurtures the unlimited potential and private energies of the individual.
Other items of interest:
- View the Academy Case Statement.
- By the Numbers - an overview of amazing statistics for the University of Illinois.
- Disclaimer: The Academy On Capitalism and Limited Government Foundation is not a unit of the University of Illinois, rather a support organization to the University of Illinois Foundation providing philanthropic investment in programs which comport with the Academy Mission and expressed donor intent.