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By making a legacy gift—remembering ACTA in your estate—you will help carry the torch for academic excellence, academic freedom, and accountability at America’s colleges and universities.
By making a legacy gift—remembering ACTA in your estate—you will help carry the torch for academic excellence, academic freedom, and accountability at America’s colleges and universities.
What We’re Doing ACTA has enlisted the support of the nation’s most distinguished educators and policymakers to help institutions reorder their priorities and develop urgently needed efficiencies. Through an accelerated podcast program, we have...
ACTA promotes rigorous academic study, a strong liberal arts curriculum, and broadening viewpoint diversity through its Oases of Excellence initiative. These 88 programs share a commitment to educating students for informed citizenship in a...
Skyrocketing college costs and employers’ increasing skepticism of the job readiness of recent graduates are testaments to a failing quality assurance system. Accreditation has become an opaque, systemically flawed process that stifles innovation. It...
In this episode, Armand Alacbay, Vice President of Trustee and Legislative Affairs at ACTA, and Jerry Malitz, former Chief Information Technology Officer for the Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences, take a look...
The conference spotlights critical issues in higher education, including core curricula, historical literacy, assessment, governance, accreditation, academic freedom, affordability, and teacher education. And it focuses on ways to strengthen relationships among trustees, presidents, faculty,...
Confronting the College Cost Explosion For years, college costs have surged exponentially, and student debt has climbed to an all-time high. The fiscal model for private and public higher education is unsustainable, yet many institutions...
Now in its 14th year, What Will They Learn?® annually evaluates the general education programs at over 1,100 U.S. colleges and universities, public and private, with a stated liberal arts mission. We publish the...
American higher education has generally abandoned its obligation to prepare graduates who have the knowledge and understanding to take up meaningful roles in our free society. ACTA is working hard to change that. Only...
Launched in 1995, we are the only organization that works with alumni, donors, trustees, and education leaders across the United States to support liberal arts education, uphold high academic standards, safeguard the free exchange of ideas on campus, and ensure that the next generation receives an intellectually rich, high-quality college education at an affordable price.
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