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With this new tool, ACTA is working to expand its outreach to governors nationwide on behalf of higher education reform, focusing on key issues of quality, cost, and accountability. ACTA has worked with governors and education leaders from across the country, and that experience has proven that innovative governors are key to improving higher education accountability and performance.
ACTA's 12th state higher education report examines questions of great urgency for the state of Mississippi: How should individual public universities choose their leadership? Are the public universities careful stewards of taxpayer dollars? Is free speech protected on Mis...
At a time of major fiscal crisis and growing student and faculty unrest, ACTA's report points the finger at California's college and university trustees as both the problem-—and the solution-—to greater access and quality in the Golden State. Praising the California Master Plan for establishing a...
ACTA’s 11th state report finds higher education in Florida has both sunny spots and storms to avoid, yet overall has strong potential to set an example for other states to follow. The report, Florida Rising: An Assessment of Public Universities in the Sunshine State, examines issues of c...
The piece by Neal C. Johnson and Charles S. Clark, of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, is dripping with mandarin contempt for the democratic process ("Take the Gamesmanship Out of Appointments to Public Colleges' Governing Boards," The Review, June 6). It begins b...
News Release: Florida Board of Governors Below is the State of the System address as prepared for delivery by Board of Governors Chair Mori Hosseini. State of the System Mori Hosseini January 16, 2014 As I enter my term as chair of the Board, I want to begin by saying what a p...
The Mississippi House of Representatives adopted a bill today to protect the rights of college students to speak freely about the causes and issues they hold dear. The bill codifies existing federal case law for the state of Mississippi to avoid expensive litigation for p...
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