ACTA’s president Anne D. Neal gives a presentation to the Loblolly Club of Florida.
In this 10th edition of its flagship annual survey of college general education curricula, What Will They Learn?, ACTA shines a light on the wide disparity in academic standards at institutions of higher learning across the country. What Will They Learn? reviews the core curricula of over 1,100 four-year public and private institutions across the country […]
Read and admired throughout the world, Shakespeare’s plays and poetry have been the guiding light of statesmen, of authors, and of artists. His writings are the indispensable foundation for understanding English literature, language, and rhetoric. Yet less than 8% of the nation’s top universities require English majors to take even a single course that focuses […]
ACTA today released a report that finds the country’s leading public institutions fail students and the American people in several key areas. Getting What You Pay For? examines 52 top-rated institutions to separate reputation from results. The report finds that too many leading, publicly-funded institutions don’t provide students with high academic quality at a reasonable […]
Who protects the public interest? That is the question. In today’s Federal Register, the Department of Education asked “interested parties” for nominations to NACIQI, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. Overseeing billions in federal student aid, NACIQI is not a household word. Mom and Dad pay the taxes that fund those billions—but […]
Proponents of a broad overhaul of the nation’s accreditation system are likely to be disappointed in the changes that a federal advisory panel will recommend to the education secretary. But supporters of the current accreditation process are not likely to be much happier about those recommendations. The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity […]
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, noted at his March 10 hearing on the for-profit Ashford University that accreditors are incapable of evaluating multistate, billion-dollar distance education programs. In this instance, his target was one of the large regional accrediting bodies that enjoy a monopoly over the institutions in their geographical areas and control their access to […]
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