ACTA president Anne D. Neal participates in a panel discussion about the State University of New York’s core curriculum at a conference celebrating SUNY’s 60th anniversary.
In this 10th 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 across the country […]
ACTA’s report The Cost of Chaos in the Curriculum reveals that the vast array of course choices given to college students is a cause of exploding costs and poor academic outcomes. And a bloated undergraduate curriculum is particularly detrimental to the success of students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. The report documents how at most colleges and […]
ACTA probes the extent to which today’s English majors are required to take courses on Shakespeare’s work. While at one point such requirements were common, this report reveals that today they are not. Of the 70 colleges researched by ACTA–private and public, large and small, from the Washington, D.C. area and on to the rest […]
In 1949, campus leaders met in Albany to launch the State University of New York by uniting 29 disparate colleges. This month, university leaders and scholars met again in the state capital to celebrate the 60th anniversary of what has now become the nation’s largest university system: SUNY’s 64 colleges and universities enroll nearly 440,000 […]
The good news: A survey from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) announcing that “distribution requirements” in undergraduate education are out and “general education” is back. Translated, that means—or ought to mean—that colleges are reinstating the idea of a core curriculum of essential courses, conveying essential knowledge, that every well-rounded college graduate ought […]
When it comes to the basics, both Hunter and Brooklyn colleges get an A. Columbia costs 10 times as much as the CUNY schools but only scored a B in a new study of colleges’ core education requirements. “Education is not simply about offering hundreds of classes,” said Anne Neal of the American Council of […]
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