Chief of Staff & Senior Vice President of Strategy
Request an InterviewMr. Alacbay oversees ACTA’s trustee and government relations projects and coordinates priorities across the organization’s programmatic portfolio. His research on higher education policy issues has been featured in outlets including The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Fox News, and Forbes. Prior to joining ACTA, he worked in private practice as a trial attorney and later managed an educational services startup company. A lifelong Virginian and the son of Filipino immigrants, Mr. Alacbay received a B.A. in Economics and English from the University of Virginia and his J.D. from George Mason University School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal. On June 28, 2023, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin appointed Mr. Alacbay to serve on the George Mason University Board of Visitors for a four-year term.
H.B. 780 in the Virginia legislature would take this to the next level of politicization by purging all of Youngkin’s appointees, including sitting board members who have already been confirmed by the legislature. The bill’s proponents have not spoken publicly to justify the need for mass dismissals, but the partisan reasons are not hard to surmise. […]
Last night, approximately 20 million people watched Indiana University win its first-ever college football national championship, capping off a chaotic year for those who follow the business side of college sports. Among the myriad questions in play: Can a university contractually force students to play football for their school? That nearly became a reality for […]
To the Regents and Trustees of Big 12 Member Institutions: As a governing board member of an institution that is part of the Big 12 athletic conference, I am sure you are aware that the conference has announced that it is close to an agreement with a pair of private equity firms, an agreement that […]
ACTA’s Chief of Staff and Senior VP of Strategy, sent a letter to the Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE) commending their work to create new standards for accreditation, which rightfully center student outcomes and academic excellence over bureaucratic box-checking.
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