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, 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 Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri.
At a time of major fiscal crisis and growing student and faculty unrest, ACTA’s report points the finger at California’s college and university trustees as both the problem-—and the solution-—to greater access and quality in the Golden State. Praising the California Master Plan for establishing an accessible statewide system of higher education, the report finds […]
ACTA’s 11th state report finds higher education in Florida has both sunny spots and storms to avoid, yet overall has strong potential to set an example for other states to follow. The report, Florida Rising: An Assessment of Public Universities in the Sunshine State, examines issues of cost, speech codes, administrative vs. academic spending, core […]
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 […]
The University of Maine System has a slew of challenges to overcome if it intends to carry out its mission sufficiently as the state’s public institution of higher education, according to a recently released report. The report “Made in Maine: A State Report Card on Public Higher Education,” released jointly by the American Council of […]
The University of Maine System received failing grades in all but one of five areas evaluated in a report released Wednesday by a conservative think tank. The report, “Made in Maine: A State Report on Public Higher Education,” gave the four-year public colleges and universities run by the University of Maine System grades of pass […]
A report card by a conservative think tank is giving the University of Maine System failing grades in four out of five areas. The report was conducted by The Maine Heritage Policy Center and the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. It found that, overall, the seven-campus system has low graduation rates, high tuition, weak […]
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