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 problem solvers, and our colleges and universities can once more become the unquestioned envy of the world. The steadily increasing receptivity of higher education leadership, the media, and the public to ACTA’s common sense solutions tell us that at this inflection point, American higher education will move to a higher level of quality and productivity. ACTA will continue its untiring efforts on behalf of higher education and our nation.
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 […]
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.
This guide for trustees reports on the dangerous decline of academic freedom and intellectual diversity on college campuses. The foreword, by Benno Schmidt, chairman of the CUNY Board of Trustees and former president of Yale, comes at a time when duly-invited graduation speakers are made unwelcome, campus speech codes threaten the free exchange of ideas, […]
The advancement of empirical science, the Industrial Revolution, and then the technological revolution, the development of representative government, Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Michelangelo’s David and Da Vinci’s masterpieces. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin. It’s been a rather remarkable run. And how remarkable that this engine of human progress seems strangely to be faltering. Seventy-one years ago, French […]
American higher education seems to be in a permanent state of crisis. Almost monthly, a federal court has occasion to reprimand some college or university for improperly chilling speech, even as some students continue to complain that campuses are too friendly to the wrong kind of speakers. Many institutions have cut back on faculty hiring, […]
Almost since the start of Power Line in 2002, we have reported with dismay the descent of American colleges and universities into a leftist bastion of illiberalism. Most of our focus has been on professors, and not without reason. They are the ones who have degraded the teaching of humanities through their obsession with identify […]
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