Benno C. Schmidt and a group of national leaders released Governance for a New Era, urging trustees to take active, informed roles. ACTA’s new What Will They Learn? report exposes widespread curricular gaps, with Christopher Newport University earning the only perfect “A” among public institutions. ACTA also pushed for accreditation reform, honored Dr. Louise Mirrer with the Merrill Award, and hosted trustees in Cambridge to explore academic leadership and governance.
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Higher education across the nation is under scrutiny. Publicly funded colleges and universities are particularly vulnerable, as they represent a massive investment by state taxpayers. Many concerned Americans question the return on this investment, and public confidence in higher education has fallen every year since 2015. The diversity of institutions means that no single policy […]
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