Academic Outreach

Our Mission

The Academic Outreach team worked with university-based centers and institutes to help build skills and capabilities through direct consulting, general knowledge sharing, and convening. This mission also extended internally as we worked to connect our network of centers with like minded Mercatus employees and scholars. 

Our network of over 300 university-based centers, with missions that are loosely aligned with the Mercatus mission, are advancing a vision for a free liberal society and removing barriers to the liberal ethos across the United States and beyond. These centers enhance the Telos of the university, which is to encourage the pursuit of truth over dogmatism, serve as a place for a liberal education, contesting ideas, robust critical thinking over indoctrination, and encourage viewpoint diversity.