ACTA president Anne D. Neal speaks at the National HBCUs Conference on Capitol Hill.
Dear Governing Board Members, Your institution—and the nation—needs your leadership as never before. Shared governance means shared. Institutions properly should challenge government when it exceeds its statutory authority. Institutions properly should remind the public of their contributions to medicine, science, industry, and defense that have made this nation strong and prosperous. However, higher education has many […]
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 […]
As members of a federal commission studying higher education and those who have been following the panel’s work digested a second draft of its report, which was formally released Monday, there was widespread agreement that the paper treated higher education more gently than the first draft did. Whether that was a good thing or a […]
The concept of shared governance is in serious jeopardy at American colleges and universities, four scholars said Friday during a panel discussion here at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors. That might sound like a dog-bites-man story; the AAUP’s central reason for being, of course, is to defend faculty rights against […]
ACTA, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, recently hosted a gathering at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. for people interested in education issues within the local public policy community. In the audience were folks from special-interest groups, think tanks, government agencies, non-government organizations, the media and others. The announced agenda was “Higher […]
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