This guide suggests various strategies that boards of trustees can adopt to curb the problem of grade inflation at their schools. Addressing grade inflation is one way to ensure the academic quality of an institution and to guarantee that students really get something for the tuition they pay. ACTA thanks the D.W. Gore Family Foundation for making this guide possible.
Governance for a New Era, a blueprint for higher education governance, is the product of a summit facilitated by ACTA and chaired by Benno Schmidt, past president of Yale University and former board chairman of the City University of New York. Signatories to the statement, a diverse group of 22 distinguished national leaders, include college […]
In this 11th edition of its flagship annual survey of college general education curricula, What Will They Learn?, ACTA shines a light on the wide disparity in academic standards at institutions of higher learning across the country. What Will They Learn? reviews the core curricula of over 1,100 four-year public and private institutions to determine the […]
In a paper commissioned by the Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, ACTA draws out the implications of the settlement in Robertson v. Princeton, the landmark donor-intent lawsuit against Princeton University. ACTA argues that universities have broken the compact of trust with donors, who must now take an active role in ensuring […]
With a mandate merely to advise, a commission at the State Capitol is debating major changes in higher education. To get something done, the grandly titled Postsecondary Education Review Commission has to sell its ideas in turn to the Board of Regents, the ultracautious Gov. Bobby Jindal and a fractious Legislature made up of lawmakers […]
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 […]
Higher education is suffering from a crisis in quality and cost, but the Obama administration is profoundly wrong in thinking that a new federal rating system is the answer (“Federal Ratings of Colleges Tied to Aid Hit Bump,” U.S. News, Feb. 11). What is needed—and is easily in reach as Congress prepares to reauthorize the Higher […]
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