General Education
An Education for Career and Community
ACTA vice president of policy, Michael Poliakoff addresses Bluefield College class of 2017 at convocation with “An Education for Career and Community” on August 29.
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Liberty and Learning
A Commencement Address
May 12, 2014 by Anne D. Neal Download PDFACTA president Anne D. Neal delivers the 2014 commencement address, “Liberty and Learning,” at Colorado Christian University on May 10. She highlights how essential the Founders believed education was to maintaining our republic.
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National study ranks Colorado Christian in top 2% of colleges
Colorado Christian University (CCU) learned today its College of Undergraduate Studies has been ranked in the top two percent of colleges nationwide by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). The ACTA’s fourth edition of What Will They Learn? study shows that colleges and universities are to blame for failing to prepare graduates for […]
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Student needs for understanding our freedom and liberty
In 1947, two years after our final victory in World War II, President Harry S. Truman and other prominent national leaders were interested in reminding Americans why our country had fought so hard to prevail against the Axis powers. Truman, along with others in the Federal Government, had hoped our nation would embrace a “rededication” […]
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College ignorance and the threat to liberty
Media outlets around the country have reported that 10 percent of college graduates think Judith Sheindlin — better known as TV’s “Judge Judy” — is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Behind this embarrassing yet hilarious finding is the fact that there is a serious crisis in American higher education. Not funny at all […]
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