Our Mission
Alabamians for Academic Excellence and Integrity (AAEI) is a nonpartisan organization advocating for education rooted in the classical Western tradition, and the purposes which undergird classical education including pursuing truth, preserving and enriching the culture, developing good character and citizenship and ensuring graduates are prepared to succeed in their chosen vocations.
Reclaiming Our Heritage: An Alpha College to Face the Future
A new bill—SB 129–was signed into law last winter severely restricting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education in Alabama.
The bill prohibits divisive concepts of race, sex, ethnicity, and other factors which undermine the traditional concept that excellence in education is obtained by merit and hard work, not by who we are.
The answer to DEI is to restore the ingredients in higher education that endowed us with standards and strengths to build the world we all inhabit.
We need to reexamine closely the values and ethics which gave this country its distinctive character. Then, before the collective memory of those attributes fades away into some corner of our memory, we need to do something.