ACTA in the NewsPresidential Assessment
Ohio State Is Not Alone: How University Presidents Keep Getting Too Close to Outside Interests
When Ohio State University President Ted Carter resigned on Monday after admitting he […]
Speeches & Testimony
Policymakers | Trusteeship
Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education
March 1, 2007 by Anne D. Neal
ACTA president Anne D. Neal moderates a panel at a conference on the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, organized by ACTA and the Center for Campus Affordability and Productivity, with a keynote address by the Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. Audio and video of the conference are available upon request.
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Free Speech
ACTA Testimony to Oklahoma House Committee on Post Secondary Education on OK HB3129
Today, the Committee on Postsecondary Education of the Oklahoma House of Representatives considered legislation, House Bill 3129, which would strengthen free speech protections on public college and university campuses by mandating that all security fees must be levied in a content-neutral manner. Steven McGuire, ACTA’s Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom, submitted written testimony. HB […]
Free Speech
ACTA Testimony to the Oklahoma Senate Committee on Education on OK SB1725
Today, the Committee on Education of the Oklahoma Senate considered legislation, Senate Bill 1725, which would strengthen free speech protections on public college and university campuses by mandating that all security fees must be levied in a content-neutral manner. SB 1725 would also require free speech training for all first-year students. Steven McGuire, ACTA’s Paul & Karen […]
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ACTA in the NewsPhilanthropy
Responding to higher-education misbehavior
As a concerned observer of higher education, I commend Asaf Romirowsky for pointing out that the double standards, censorship and other politically correct follies that abound in present-day academia will not end until donors begin to “ask questions about what is being done with their money” (“Scholar activism,” Op-Ed, Feb. 14). Readers also might like […]
ACTA in the NewsTrusteeship
A College Education
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 […]
ACTA in the NewsGeneral Education
The State of General Education
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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