ACTA president Anne D. Neal discusses higher education’s greatest challenges at the Rotary Club in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
There is no denying it: One of the effects of technological advancement is the overspecialization of the workforce. Gone are the days of the local family practitioner. Now there are cardiologists, chiropractors, neurologists, and geneticists...
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 […]
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 […]
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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