ACTA’s Erik Gross serves up a conversation with Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness, the authors of “Cracks In the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education.” Their microeconomic approach to analyzing the adversities...
Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools, joins ACTA’s Erik Gross to discuss the decline of civic education, the...
Dear Campus Community: In recent days, we have heard many voices on and off campus. We have listened to concerns about the campus culture and curriculum. We have heard your demands for greater diversity....
The Center for American Progress’ (CAP) recent report “A Great Recession, a Great Retreat” makes a case for increased state funding for higher education. The basis for this recommendation is that state disinvestment has...
GfK Study Finds that 89% of the Public Believes College is Becoming Unaffordable for the Middle Class and Call on Trustees to Lead Reform WASHINGTON, DC—A diverse group of national leaders is issuing today...
The America’s Future Foundation (AFF), a D.C.-based conservative and libertarian group of young 20 and 30-somethings, took a stab yesterday at resolving the ballooning student debt crisis with a panel titled “Are We Borrowing...
Kentucky is the Bluegrass State, where the cash is always greener. Just ask the University of Louisville’s Rick Pitino, the highest-paid coach at a public school in this season’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament, or...
Mitch Daniels’ recent letter to the Purdue University community was the equivalent of a 12-page research paper on the state of higher education so Boilermakers can be forgiven if they didn’t read every word...
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