ACTA has gone from strength to strength in advancing our mission to ensure that American higher education is the finest in the world. We have led schools, from coast to coast, to strengthen cost-control and accountability, nurture academic excellence, and enhance academic freedom. We have achieved impressive momentum in restoring the promise of higher education and trust that it will carry us forward in 2018 and beyond.
The good news is that America is awake to the urgent need for transformative change in higher education. We are at a turning point: ACTA’s admonitions to make a college education affordable and indisputably valuable for students and our nation are being heeded as never before. And more good news: We are a nation of […]
ACTA is turning the tide and calling colleges and universities to account. We are making significant progress in our campaign to make higher education accountable, affordable, and effective. Our goal is for America to be again able to say our nation’s higher education is the envy of the world.
In 2015, ACTA celebrated 20 years of hard-charging higher education reform. And what a story we have to tell. Once a lone voice in the wilderness, ACTA is now leading the charge in our vigorous campaign to restore academic excellence, academic freedom, and accountability to American higher education. Core curricula, accreditation reform, historical literacy, engaged […]
Dive Brief: The American Council of Trustees and Alumni released a report Tuesday found small baccalaureate institutions have the highest cost ratios across higher ed, spending in general at least 50 cents on administration for every dollar spent on instruction. Research intensive institutions have much lower cost ratios, which an ACTA spokesperson called “a bit curious and […]
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has launched a new web-based tool that makes it easier to track and compare college expenditures. It’s called HowCollegesSpendMoney, and it promises to be an invaluable, user-friendly, source of information that will allow higher education leaders, students and policymakers to evaluate and compare institutions’ performance on financial matters as […]
Students are often told that they must go to college. They are told that higher education is the key to their future and that they will not be able to make it very far without it. However, studies show many colleges are actually failing their students and are not adequately preparing them for the real […]
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