In 2015, ACTA celebrated 20 years of hard-charging higher education reform. And what a story we have to tell. Once a lone voice in the wilderness, ACTA is now leading the charge in our vigorous campaign to restore academic excellence, academic freedom, and accountability to American higher education. Core curricula, accreditation reform, historical literacy, engaged governance, and intellectual diversity—these issues are now front and center. The reason? ACTA has put them there.
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 […]
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 […]
Higher education has never been more “front and center”—almost daily we hear about spiraling costs, the lack of academic rigor, and the stifling political correctness on our college campuses. Long before such issues were hot, ACTA was already pointing out these worrisome trends and calling on policymakers and leaders in higher education to pursue reform. […]
The federal government’s system for accrediting colleges is a misguided failure that should be largely replaced with a simpler method that relies on key institutional data about cost and quality, a trustees group is arguing. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a conservative-leaning lobbying association led by Anne D. Neal, proposed in a report […]
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has sent a letter to, among others, the Brown Corporation, urging it to consider reinstating the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program on campus. The letter was also sent to trustees at Columbia, Harvard and Yale as well as Stanford and Tufts universities and the University of Chicago, which […]
College governing boards should do their part to cut costs on campuses, according to the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, which has published a 20-page guide to help trustees find money-saving opportunities. “If you think times are tough for your university’s budget, consider how difficult economic times are for your students and their families,” […]
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