In recent years, a number of educators have challenged the usefulness of SAT and ACT tests as indicators of college readiness, and some institutions have stopped requiring college entrance examinations altogether. The purpose of this trustee guide is to acquaint trustees with the history and use of college entrance tests and the arguments for and against continuing their role in admissions. The guide is organized to help trustees ask the important questions so that they can provide approrpriate oversight of their institution’s admissions process.
Jeremy Wayne Tate founded Classic Learning Initiatives in 2015 to provide high school students with alternative standardized tests that are rooted in tradition while taking advantage of modern technologies. Featuring passages from great works across a variety of disciplines, the Classical Learning Test (CLT) suite of assessments provides an accurate and rigorous measure of reasoning, […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on higher education. As students were sent home to shelter in place to prevent contracting or spreading COVID-19, classes went online and university resources, such as career counseling, followed suit. Those paying attention to higher education policy theorized that the uncertainty could make competitive colleges easier to […]
WASHINGTON, DC—A national organization devoted to academic excellence today called on the University of California and other colleges and universities not to eliminate the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) from college admission requirements. In response to University of California President Richard Atkinson’s recent call for the University of California system to abandon the use of the […]
Admission to a university should not be for sale, and University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers certainly betrayed the public trust when he used his office to usher the children of the rich and influential into the people’s university. Now the board must decide whether he should remain in office. The alarm was first sounded […]
Since Wallace Hall Jr. was appointed to serve on the board of the University of Texas in 2011, he has sought thousands of pages of records to try to root out potential wrongdoing at the university. Now, the Dallas businessman faces possible impeachment from state lawmakers after a legislative probe concluded Mr. Hall went too […]
Something extraordinary happened recently in Austin. As the Daily Texan, the student newspaper at the flagship campus of the University of Texas, headline put it, “Student Government members propose legislation supporting apology to Wallace Hall.” The legislation asserted that Hall was “one of the few University administrators genuinely acting on behalf of students and fairness in […]
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