Student protests over race and bias are gaining intensity at colleges across the country, generating some backlash — and, at some campuses, forcing real change. At Princeton, the president agreed Thursday night to something surprising:...
The U.S. Department of Education plans to announce on Friday a narrow set of new requirements for the nation’s higher-education accreditors, the private, nonprofit organizations that serve as the gatekeepers to billions of dollars...
What would Thomas Jefferson say if he looked at the curriculum of most American colleges and universities, including the University of Virginia, which he founded, and William & Mary, his alma mater? Actually, we...
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) is a nonpartisan higher-education organization that, for 20 years, has provided us with much-needed data on the quality of American institutions of higher education. ACTA recently...
In the first act of 1984’s Ghostbusters, the university dean tells our parapsychologist heroes that their funding has been pulled and they have to get off the campus immediately. Dr. Peter Venkman, played by Bill...
If a nation has a constitution, and nobody reads it or follows it, does it matter? America was designed as a constitutional republic. The powers that the federal government enjoys were delegated to it...
Happy 20th birthday, ACTA! The American Council of Trustees & Alumni celebrated with a conference in DC on October 16, which featured a panel composed of historian David McCullough, professor Richard Arum (“Academically Adrift”), former...
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