ACTA is turning the tide and calling colleges and universities to account. We are making significant progress in our campaign to make higher education accountable, affordable, and effective. Our goal is for America to be again able to say our nation’s higher education is the envy of the world.
The good news is that America is awake to the urgent need for transformative change in higher education. We are at a turning point: ACTA’s admonitions to make a college education affordable and indisputably valuable for students and our nation are being heeded as never before. And more good news: We are a nation of […]
ACTA has gone from strength to strength in advancing our mission to ensure that American higher education is the finest in the world. We have led schools, from coast to coast, to strengthen cost-control and accountability, nurture academic excellence, and enhance academic freedom. We have achieved impressive momentum in restoring the promise of higher education […]
In 2015, ACTA celebrated 20 years of hard-charging higher education reform. And what a story we have to tell. Once a lone voice in the wilderness, ACTA is now leading the charge in our vigorous campaign to restore academic excellence, academic freedom, and accountability to American higher education. Core curricula, accreditation reform, historical literacy, engaged […]
In Casablanca, Capt. Renault pockets his winnings and remarks, as he shuts down Rick’s American Cafe, “I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” After decades of presiding over the disastrous combination of declining quality and runaway costs of American higher education, the leaders of America’s college-accrediting agencies are nearly […]
The academic term just completed could turn out to be a watershed in the national movement to increase accountability in American higher education. Over the past school year, roughly 200 American universities began measuring what students gain in fundamental academic skills over the course of their time invested in college. The tool they are using […]
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has launched a new web-based tool that makes it easier to track and compare college expenditures. It’s called HowCollegesSpendMoney, and it promises to be an invaluable, user-friendly, source of information that will allow higher education leaders, students and policymakers to evaluate and compare institutions’ performance on financial matters as […]
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