This report card on public higher education in Minnesota focuses on four key areas of the public’s interest: what students are learning (the curriculum), whether the marketplace of ideas is vibrant (intellectual diversity), how the universities are run (governance), and what a college education costs (affordability). If our nation is to ensure its continued preeminence, policymakers, trustees, alumni, and taxpayers must know what’s going on in higher education. This report card aims to do just that—and it follows similar ACTA report cards on higher education in the states of Missouri, Georgia, and Illinois.
This report card on public higher education in Maine focuses on four key areas of interest: what students are learning (the curriculum), whether the marketplace of ideas is vibrant (intellectual diversity), how the universities are run (governance), and what a college education costs (affordability). If our nation is to ensure its continued preeminence, policymakers, trustees, […]
ACTA releases the ninth in its series of state reports—this one on the Commonwealth of Virginia. The report—The Diffusion of Light and Education—outlines challenges at 39 public and private colleges and universities in Virginia, in key areas of public interest: general education requirements, cost and effectiveness, and governance structures. It finds that in too many […]
ACTA’s 12th state higher education report examines questions of great urgency for the state of Mississippi: How should individual public universities choose their leadership? Are the public universities careful stewards of taxpayer dollars? Is free speech protected on Mississippi’s college campuses? The report assesses institutions on measures of academic strength, intellectual diversity, cost effectiveness, and […]
Across the state, parents and graduating high school seniors are now deciding which college it will be for the fall. A new report card on higher education in Minnesota provides some much-needed information on what the state’s public universities and colleges are doing well—and what they can do better. First, the good news. The state […]
Every child eventually figures it out: You can’t spend too much of your allowance on candy. If you do, Mom and Dad won’t be happy when you don’t have enough money for pencils. This may seem like an elementary lesson, but since the state budget deficit is projected to grow to $5.8 billion by 2012, […]
Lone finalists, closed-door interviews and a lawsuit that went all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court — that’s the University of Minnesota’s checkered track record with openness during recent presidential searches. University critics argue that the U has favored candidate privacy in trying to strike a balance between transparency and confidentiality. In 2004, the […]
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