ACTA vice president of policy Michael Poliakoff’s testimony before the Texas Higher Education Oversight Committee highlighted the significant problems of access and quality.
ACTA president Anne D. Neal provides expert testimony to the Louisiana Postsecondary Education Review Commission on the need for colleges to reduce administrative spending and require rigorous core requirements.
ACTA teams up with Roper to survey Americans’ attitudes towards the nation’s system of higher education. The results show that many Americans don’t believe that students are getting their money’s worth from attending college or that colleges prepare students for the job market. The survey also found that most Americans believe that colleges and universities […]
With this new tool, ACTA is working to expand its outreach to governors nationwide on behalf of higher education reform, focusing on key issues of quality, cost, and accountability. ACTA has worked with governors and education leaders from across the country, and that experience has proven that innovative governors are key to improving higher education […]
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 […]
Top-ranked liberal-arts colleges are failing to provide their students with a rigorous higher education even as many of them have steadily increased tuition and administrative spending in recent years, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni asserted in a report released on Monday. The conservative-leaning advocacy group’s report, “Education or Reputation? A Look at America’s […]
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