Unequalizing College Admissions
Test-optional admission has become an unfortunate trend in higher ed. In recent years, Smith, Brandeis, Wesleyan and other schools have declared that they will make submission of SAT or ACT ...
If The Price of Milk Rose as Quickly as College Tuition…
…it would cost $17.48 per gallon.
Something’s wrong here, and in a new ACTA study, Getting What You Pay For? we examine what it is. ACTA looks at America’s top-ranked public universities to ...
What Caused the Grad School Debt Crisis?
Per Jane’s post below, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that bad policy created the increase in graduate school debt found in the new NAF (New America Foundation) report.
First, most ...
A New Schedule for “What Will They Learn?”
Starting this year, ACTA’s What Will They Learn?™ study will release on a new schedule that allows us to provide real-time data on the curricula of nearly 1,100 institutions. In ...
A Letter to Future College Students
My colleague Greg Lewin recently wrote this letter to a high school senior who is choosing colleges. It sums up a lot of our thoughts about college education–what it is, ...
New ACTA Report Shows Elite Colleges Neglect Core Components of Education
It will come as no surprise to readers here that many top liberal arts colleges have failed to live up to their reputations. But just how bad is it?
ACTA’s new report, Education ...
What Should Policy Schools Do?
James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley have an excellent, incisive commentary on schools of public policy. These programs, created to bring social science and efficient, nonpartisan administration to government offices, face a host of ...
Brown U. Students Can’t Handle Free Speech
On Tuesday, student protesters at Brown University shouted down a lecture from New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
Kelly spent thirty minutes trying to give his speech; during that time students disrupted the ...
ROTC Returns to CCNY
ROTC has been a rare source of good news in higher ed lately: the program has been welcomed back at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and now CCNY. AEI’s Cheryl Miller ...