Washington, DC—The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has designated three new exceptional academic programs as Hidden Gems. ACTA’s Hidden Gems initiative shines a light on honors colleges and major, minor, and certificate...
Lawrence Summers, president emeritus of Harvard University, will be honored with an outstanding education award this weekend for his long reputation of defending rigorous academics, advocating for free speech, and attempting to steer modern...
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has recognized the Center for Public Service at the University of Pikeville, Concourse at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian...
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.
In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison discuss the recent annual meeting of the Heterodox Academy.
Boston University has suspended admissions to humanities and social science Ph.D. programs for next year after agreeing to a new graduate student workers union contract with massive pay increases.
ACTA presented our 19th annual Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education to Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School and the first...
It started in 2017, before which many Purdue graduates went their entire academic career having never set foot in a literature or history class, Dr. Melinda Zook recalls. Now, they all do.
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