The 2019 ATHENA Roundtable brought together over 100 leaders to address the declining value and rising cost of college, while ACTA’s national civics survey exposed alarming gaps in graduates’ knowledge of U.S. history and government. Wallace Hall received the Jerry L. Martin Prize for uncovering admissions corruption, and former Governor Tom Ridge led a seminar on protecting free expression on campus. Additional features include the launch of the new What Will They Learn? website, the 2019 Merrill Award honoring Judge José Cabranes, and a podcast with David Corey on intellectual humility.
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On March 11, the New York Times reported that five West Point cadets were among seven New York college students who overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl during a spring break trip to Florida. Two of the students went into cardiac arrest from exposure to the substance after they performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on two other […]
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the National Institutes of Health, recently published the results of its annual study comparing drug and alcohol use trends of college students versus their peers not in college. Marijuana use among college students is now at “the highest level in over three-and-a-half decades” with a […]
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