ACTA president Anne D. Neal, along with SUNY trustee Candace de Russy, and University of Pennsylvania English professor and ACTA blogger Erin O’Connor, participate on a panel at the American Association of Colleges and Universities annual meeting in New Orleans.
ACTA presented our 19th annual Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education to Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School and the first female president of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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.
It started in 2017, before which many Purdue graduates went their entire academic career having never set foot in a literature or history class, Dr. Melinda Zook recalls. Now, they all do.
General education doesn’t often make headlines. But thanks to the groundbreaking efforts in Colorado to ensure a rigorous statewide core curriculum, Colorado is making national news. At a time of breathtaking changes and ever-growing bodies of information, Colorado’s focus on a strong general education will give its college graduates a competitive edge. Students in other […]
For way too many college students, their diploma could be a “ticket to nowhere.” At Vanderbilt University, a course called “Country Music” can serve as the only collegiate history course a student takes. At Vassar College, a class that studies Sex and the City, The Devil Wears Prada, and Gossip Girls can count as a […]
Johns Hopkins University is America’s premier research institution. Yet a student could complete a bachelor’s degree here without ever taking a course in science. Or math. Or history. Or English. Students at Johns Hopkins—and many other prestigious colleges—choose classes the way a diner patron assembles a meal, selecting items from a vast menu. Broad distribution […]
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