The Barbara Denton Program for American Renewal enriches the education of a broad range of students, citizens, and future and current leaders with a deep appreciation for culture and tradition.
Multiform Programming for High School, College Students, and Leaders
The Barbara Denton Program promotes intellectual engagement through student seminars and field trips, research grants, academic and graduate support, leadership workshops, internships, guest speakers, international programs, and research focused on constitutional principles and issues facing the American Republic.
The Barbara Denton Program supports students and junior academics through mentoring, career development, networking, internships, and intellectual events; hosts distinguished speakers; organizes educational field trips; and produces research and publications promoting scholarship on republican self-government and American and Western civilization.
The annual Denton Program Dinner Forum, will hold October 18 at Momma Maria’s in downtown Trappe, features John A. Burtka IV, a distinguished political thinker, author, and former president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and The American Conservative.
The Barbara Denton Program relies entirely on individual donations, which are fully tax-deductible and directed in full to the program through its 501(c)(3) parent organization, the Wealth of Nations Institute.
The Barbara Denton Program is not a part of or subject to any college or university. The Barbara Denton Program for American Renewal is a program of the Wealth of Nation Institute, a 501 c3 non-profit organization founded by nationally prominent educational reform advocates.
The Barbara Denton Program is blessed with a large number of leading scholars, statesmen, and professionals who serve as Senior Fellows. One Senior Fellow is Dr. Joseph Prud’homme. Dr. Prud’homme received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, with additional legal training in jurisprudence at the Harvard Law School. He also taught at Harvard College as a Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences, and has been awarded a number of prestigious fellowships, including at the University of Oxford and the American Institute for Economic Research. He is on the Academic Advisory Board of MFI, is a co-founder of the Constitution Alliance, is an ISI Faculty Fellow, and is Vice President of The TransAtlantic Fellowship Program, among other leadership positions.
He provides frequent public addresses and presentations to national and international audiences. His works currently under contract include a book advancing a new defense of George Washington in light of rising American cultural iconoclasm and declining faith in America’s founding ideals.