President Donald Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” has had the industry buzzing. Detractors call it a “Faustian bargain” and a partisan “loyalty oath,” while supporters hold it up as a “reasonable”...
Since 2021, the College Debates and Discourse (CD&D) Alliance has proudly partnered with The Fund for American Studies (TFAS), a Washington, DC-based organization with a stated mission “to develop courageous leaders inspired and equipped...
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While general knowledge remains poor, ACTA’s arts and sciences survey shows that students have a strong appetite for learning.
Over the last two decades, negative views of the opposing party have become increasingly widespread. According to research conducted by Pew Research Center, in 1994, fewer than a quarter of Republicans and fewer than...
As Inside Higher Ed reported last week, Indiana, Ohio, Utah, and Texas’s mandates to review or remove public college programs with low enrollments could be the death of foreign language study.
A recent press release by the U.S. Department of Education has created a bit of confusion, leading many to believe that the Trump administration is seeking to revoke Columbia University’s accreditation. As with most...
A Memo on Preliminary Findings from a Quasi-Experiment 2023-2025 At the core of political polarization in the U.S. today is the desire to be heard. Political disagreements escalate into shouting matches or spirals of...
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