On September 22, 2021, ACTA’s webinar for college leaders and trustees offered valuable insight into current resources, best practices, and tools to help institutions of higher education control spending. A distinguished panel of leaders in higher education governance and policy provided their perspectives on what university leaders and policymakers can do to fix the problem of runaway spending that is continuing to contribute to the student debt crisis.
Moderated by Armand Alacbay, ACTA’s VP of Trustee and Government Affairs, the panel included:
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has released its groundbreaking report The Cost of Excess: Why Colleges Must Control Runaway Spending, a comprehensive analysis of college spending trends and the impact spending has on tuition and student success. ACTA analyzed data from more than 1,500 four-year public and private, nonprofit colleges and universities.The data […]
Most college ranking systems, like the U.S. News & World Report, do not evaluate what students actually learn in the classroom. What Will They Learn? is the only rating system that examines the course catalogs of each school to provide an urgently needed, alternative assessment based on an institution’s core curriculum, the program of study […]
Drawing on empirical data from student surveys, as well as insights from faculty and higher education leaders across the country, ACTA’s report details how the rapid shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the ongoing free speech crisis on college campuses, further suppressed viewpoint diversity, and encouraged more self-censorship among students. The report also delineates steps that faculty, administrators, and governing boards can take to help promote a culture of free expression in […]
The higher education debt crisis is a boondoggle as institutional spending continues to […]
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