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Mark Ridenour: ACTA Board Member and Former Board Chairman, Miami University
Mark Ridenour graduated from Miami University in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in finance. He began his career at National...
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A Report Card on Public Higher Education in Missouri
October 1, 2008 by ACTA Download PDF Press ReleaseMissouri is the “Show Me” state—with this goal in mind, the report examines the state of higher education in Missouri, focusing on four key areas of the public’s interest. They are: what students are learning (the curriculum), whether the marketplace of ideas is vibrant (intellectual diversity), how the universities are run (governance), and what a college education costs (affordability). If our nation is to ensure its continued preeminence, policymakers, trustees, alumni, and taxpayers must know what’s going on in higher education. This report card aims to do just that—and it follows similar ACTA report cards on higher education in the states of North Carolina and Georgia.
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The Utah Board of Higher Education is undergoing its second structural overhaul in three years in an ongoing push to centralize the oversight of the state’s 16 public institutions. The latest effort will reduce the board from 18 to 10 members and prioritize...
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Group holds freedom of speech discussion at MU
Members of a free speech advocacy group visited MU Thursday to discuss an initiative that they say would hamper the free exchange of ideas and viewpoints on Missouri campuses. Members from the Center for Campus Free Speech were discussing the Emily Brooker Intellectual Diversity Act, which was approved Feb. 27 in a hearing held by […]
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Cunningham files bill mandating "intellectual diversity" on public campuses
State Rep. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, has filed a bill that her release says will “ensure the free exchange of ideas on the state’s public university campuses.” House Bill 213 “would require Missouri’s public institutions of higher education to report annually on specific steps taken to ‘to ensure and promote intellectual diversity and academic freedom.’ It […]
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Campus Intellectual Diversity Debated
Students report being pressured into particular political views by professors on Missouri campuses. “I think there’s good sides on both parts of the spectrum so just meeting in the middle somewhere in my opinion is the best way,” said Pat Jackson, MU student. While most students speak their minds freely, some Missouri college students say […]
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