ACTA President Anne Neal delivers “The Future of Free Speech: Threats in Higher Education and Beyond” at the fifth annual conference of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale.
ACTA President Anne D. Neal provided testimony to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions at their June 17 hearing on higher education accreditation, chaired by Senator Lamar Alexander. Her testimony emphasized the shocking failure of the current system of accreditation to ensure academic quality. She demonstrated the need for a new system—far […]
ACTA has repeatedly documented that the system of higher education accreditation is a barrier to innovation, improvement, and accountability at colleges and universities. On May 29, ACTA President Anne D. Neal demonstrated to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that the inadequacy of accreditation is particularly harmful to socio-economically disadvantaged students. Joining Anne Neal on […]
At its eighth annual conference, the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale hosted more than 200 attendees for a daylong discussion of conservative values, according to founder and executive director Lauren Noble. The conference, which took place on Friday at the Omni New Haven Hotel, delved into the state of conservative America today, highlighting […]
As a former student protester from the ’60s, I believe there is no better place for open debate and free expression than the campus quad. I fully support America’s youth exploring outlandish ideas because I believe our values can withstand the comparisons and will be stronger because of them. But, what’s happening on our campuses […]
Dive Brief: A lawsuit supported by the U.S. Justice Department against the University of Michigan has drawn fire from the institution, which disputes claims that its “bias response team” was designed to investigate or discipline offending students, and denies the students filing the suit could have been restricted from expressing their views on campus, according to […]
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