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New Data: Students Ready to Learn, but Colleges Fail to Require Essential Classes
While general knowledge remains poor, ACTA’s arts and sciences survey shows that students have a strong appetite for learning.
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Policymakers | General Education
Challenges Facing Higher Education
Outcomes and Accountability
August 1, 2008 by Anne D. Neal Download PDF Press ReleaseACTA president Anne D. Neal discusses higher education’s greatest challenges at the Rotary Club in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
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ACTA Testifies Before the Ohio Senate Committee on Higher Education in Support of Senate Bill 1
ACTA President Michael Poliakoff testified before the Ohio Senate Committee on Higher Education in support of Senate Bill 1, the “Advance Ohio Higher Education Act.”
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ACTA Testimony in Support of Ohio Senate Bill 1
Today, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff presented testimony in support of Ohio Senate Bill 1, the Enact Advance Higher Education Act. If passed, SB 1 includes sweeping reforms that would roll back DEI, require all students to take a 3-credit hour course in American history or U.S. government, mandate annual training for new and existing governing […]
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Sen. Judd Gregg: Making higher education more accountable and affordable
Our motto in New Hampshire, “Live Free or Die,” reminds Granite Staters that our freedoms are important to our way of life and are to be protected. The U.S. Senate has taken up reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, and it is of great importance that basic American freedoms, such as freedom of speech and […]
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A College Education
Any number of colleges and universities seem to be having PR travails these days, but this may be a case where the turmoil is healthy. The school year that is now ending has turned out to be something of a banner year for academic reform. Consider the recent unrest at the College of William and […]
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The State of General Education
At Emory University, undergraduates working through the courses that they need to take outside their major in order to graduate can find guidance in the college catalog. There, they learn that they must complete a certain number of courses in different subject areas, but “no rigid program for either degree [BA or BS] is prescribed […]
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