Nearly 30 of the nation’s top-ranked liberal arts colleges do not require students take a survey course in U.S. history, according to the findings of a report released Monday. The American Council of Trustees...
REPORT: Elite colleges’ tuitions far outpace inflation; campus presidents earn as much as POTUS; curriculums lack important basics. The 29 institutions ranked as the top liberal arts colleges in the nation have raised tuition...
Recent studies say two things about the liberal arts. They’re very important…and they’re in a parlous state. To figure out why they’re in trouble, ACTA looked at America’s finest liberal arts colleges in our...
The Wall Street Journal Live asked ACTA’s Michael Poliakoff about our new report, Education or Reputation? Dr. Poliakoff called out irresponsible colleges for “grave academic weakness, a lack…of intellectual freedom, and a remarkably high...
State senators should reject a brazen attempt to cut the public out of the selection process for top University of Nebraska administrators. A bill (LB1018) introduced by Sen. Galen Hadley of Kearney on behalf...
At Friday’s special meeting of the Board of Regents, the next president of the University stood out as the man with the biggest beard in the front row. But short of that, very few...
This month, The Modern Language Association, the nation’s largest organization of humanities scholars, signaled that it wants to jump on the anti-Israel bandwagon. That bandwagon has lately been steered by MLA’s colleagues in the...
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