Too many colleges are letting students down by failing to provide a quality four-year liberal-arts education in an environment that does not stifle students’ freedom of speech, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni says in a news release describing the findings of the 2013-14 edition of its “What Will They Learn?” report.
For the report, the traditionalist group graded the curricula of 1,091 colleges and universities on whether they required courses in seven subjects that the council says are essential to a liberal-arts education: literature, composition, economics, mathematics, intermediate-level foreign language, science, and U.S. government and history. Only 22 institutions got an A for requiring at least six of those subjects.
More details of the report’s findings are available on the What Will They Learn? Web site.
In this episode of Higher Ed Now, the second of two conversations devoted to core texts, ACTA’s Academic Affairs Fellow Veronica Bryant speaks in Spanish with Clemente Cox, classics and philosophy scholar and the Academic Director of the Center of General Studies at the Universidad de los Andes.
ACTA’s Academic Affairs Fellow Veronica Bryant is joined by two distinguished educators and advocates for core texts in liberal education: Dr. Charlotte Thomas, Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, or ACTC, and Dr. José María Torralba, board member of ACTC.
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