Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal is a hidden gem among institutions working to reform civic education at the university level. President Jenna A. Robinson says it was founded “to renew and fulfill the promise of higher education in North Carolina and the nation.”
The Center’s namesake is former North Carolina governor James G. Martin, an influential voice in education policy who taught at Davidson College for 12 years before serving six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Martin Center is the “only public policy organization that focuses on state and local solutions to the critical issues of higher education,” Robinson notes. Realizing after graduate school that “working in public policy was my calling,” she joined in 2007 and became president in 2015.
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