“This book will help you pry the truth out from the imagery. It will help you ask the right questions and it will make you think about what you want to do with the answers, which are rarely simply ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ It will point you to to other reliable sources of information. More than anything, What’s a Parent to Do? will make you healthily skeptical without being cynical. Though sanctimony is commonplace in higher education, genuine piety is there too, if you know how to look for it.”
Harry R. Lewis
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
Former Dean of Harvard College and
Interim Dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
In this 11th edition of its flagship annual survey of college general education curricula, What Will They Learn?, ACTA shines a light on the wide disparity in academic standards at institutions of higher learning across the country. What Will They Learn? reviews the core curricula of over 1,100 four-year public and private institutions to determine the […]
ACTA’s new guide for higher education trustees, Guarding the Freedom to Speak, Freedom to Hear by Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm of the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, provides best practices to boards of trustees for securing intellectual freedom on the American college campus. It couldn’t have come a moment too soon. Since 2016 […]
High school seniors are wrapping up college admissions applications ahead of the approaching Feb. 1 deadline for most institutions. These applicants will decide where to matriculate based on many factors, including the college’s reputation, location, and even dining options. More important than the usual factors, however, prospective students and their parents should consider whether a […]
As the student debt crisis approaches $1.6 trillion, tuition increases continue to outpace inflation and healthcare costs. The perfect storm of drivers includes misdirected federal student financial aid policies, runaway administrative expenses, an inherently costly residential model, ballooning retiree benefits and pension commitments, and a drop in state funding for public universities. But another huge […]
The summer holidays have finally ended, and across America college students are returning to campus. But not before someone—most likely mom or dad—has written a hefty tuition check. If you’re a parent going into hock to pay for your son or daughter’s degree in English lit, you may be feeling a mite anxious about what […]
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