Fox News Chairman Cites ACTA Research

June 17, 2013 by ACTA |

Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, winner of the 10th Bradley Prize, referred to a classic ACTA study in his acceptance speech. Speaking to an audience that included Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren,...

St. Mary’s College and the Core Curriculum

June 4, 2013 by ACTA |

In our previous post we responded to criticisms of ACTA’s piece on St. Mary’s college. One such critic, Dr. Ruth Feingold of the St. Mary’s English department, argues that ACTA misrepresents its...

St. Mary’s: Still A Cautionary Tale

June 4, 2013 by ACTA |

This is the first of a two-part examination of responses to ACTA president Anne Neal’s op-ed in the Baltimore Sun. To read the second, click here.

Two Cheers for the AAUP

June 4, 2013 by ACTA |

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) gets it partly right in its call for “greater communication between faculties and governing boards in colleges and universities,” found in...

Opportunities abound at the University of Hawaii

May 15, 2013 by Armand B. Alacbay |

Last week’s announcement that University of Hawaii President M.R.C. Greenwood will be retiring comes as no surprise to those watching the already tumultuous year at the state’s public university...

Is William and Mary Really Robin Hood?

May 1, 2013 by Michael Poliakoff |

William and Mary will hike tuition 14% for in-state students. And by 2015, students in state will pay $18,963. Leadership claims these tuition hikes are essential to maintain elite stature and have...

Audit Discovers Huge Surplus at U. Wisconsin

April 25, 2013 |

What’s going on in Wisconsin? An audit of the University of Wisconsin system found that the university was sitting on a large stockpile of cash, while students are being pressed to pay more and...

More Tuition Hikes at UVa

April 24, 2013 |

Some schools still don’t get it. Families are struggling in these challenging times…but the University of Virginia Board of Visitors nevertheless voted to raise in-state tuition by 3.8 percent and...

Statement of American Council of Trustees and Alumni

April 17, 2013 |

ACTA and Education Sector jointly released a policy study, Selling Students Short, by Education Sector research director Andrew Gillen on March 20, 2013. Dr. Gillen used teaching load data from the...

Duncan and McMillen on the Need for Trustees

March 21, 2013 by Anne D. Neal |

Arne Duncan and Tom McMillen are right on. College and university coaching salaries are out of whack, a sorry testimony to a culture on our college campuses that has too often lost touch with its...

Foreign Language and the Training of Future Physicians

March 8, 2013 by Michael Poliakoff |

For years, the premedical curriculum had the reputation of grim, tunnel-visioned professionalism. The great scientist and physician Lewis Thomas complained bitterly about it in his 1979 essay, “How...

Early to Bed, Early to Rise

March 7, 2013 by Michael Poliakoff |

Not exactly, it seems for college students. Over 1,700 Stanford students have petitioned against the shocking proposal to start certain high-demand classes at 8:30 a.m.

Stanford’s administration...

ACTA President, Vice President to Speak at NAS 25th Anniversary Conference

February 21, 2013 |

ACTA President Anne Neal and Vice President of Policy Michael Poliakoff will speak at the upcoming Twenty-fifth Anniversary National Association of Scholars Conference in New York City on March 1...

Wavering Commitment to Intellectual Diversity at Brooklyn College

February 7, 2013 by Michael Poliakoff |

Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), has recently struggled to ensure intellectual diversity and academic freedom.  These two values are the lifeblood of teaching and...

Courtroom Triumph for Free Speech on Campus

February 4, 2013 by William Gonch |

Friends of free expression have reason to celebrate today! That reason is a court decision, Barnes v. Zaccari, holding former Valdosta State University president Ronald M. Zaccari personally liable...