Education is taken for granted in the United States. It is readily available, yet many students pursue their studies half-heartedly. Difficult courses are avoided for easy “As,” with the assumption that most of what’s...
On this episode of Higher Ed Now Civics Edition, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff moderates a bracing and illuminating conversation with Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and former U.S....
ACTA in the NewsCore Curriculum
Reports from Notre Dame, Pepperdine, Columbia University, and the University of Virginia have shown that Gen Z students are walking evidence of the failure in the education system that leaves them struggling to read...
ACTA in the NewsCore Curriculum
Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story included an incorrect school on the list of LinkedIn’s top 10 colleges. The correct school is the University of Notre Dame. Lehigh University is a...
Ask a bystander to describe the future of higher education and he’ll probably complain it involves gleaming glass towers full of students learning about artificial intelligence. No doubt he’ll grumble that it’s a waste of money; a better college would teach how to read...
On this episode of Higher Ed Now Civics Edition, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff speaks with Michael Auslin, the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Professor Auslin...
ACTA in the NewsCore Curriculum
Texas has long agreed that students at all public universities should graduate with the same foundational knowledge, no matter their major. Every college student at a public Texas university has to satisfy 42 prescribed credit hours...
ACTA in the NewsGeneral Education
In 1992, I started teaching at West Chester University. My students were mostly working-class kids from the collar counties who saw higher education as a way to move up in the world. But they...
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