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"A Broadside for the Nation", assembled by ACTA’s National Commission on American History and Civic Education, makes the case for higher ed to restore a required course in US history and government in order to graduate - as well as how to make this vision a reality.
Vanderbilt's Daniel Diermeier explains the root cause of eroding campus speech culture during ACTA's recent webinar:
thecollegefix.com/higher-ed-…
American Council of Trustees and Alumni retweeted
An administrator responsible for a core curriculum at one of America's best public universities who has deep respect for and experience in liberal education. Bizarre.
NEW: @UTAustin @JimDavis_UT announces a new “University College” to be “the guardian of the new core curriculum,” led by inaugural dean Devin Stauffer, faculty fellow at the Civitas Institute and a government professor.
Stauffer chaired the core curriculum task force.
And congratulations to Devin Stauffer, director of one of ACTA's Oases of Excellence, for being named the inaugural Dean of the University College charged with teaching this core curriculum.
Some schools will reform, and save their Humanities programs. Others will coast on inertia and prestige.
But most will, unfortunately, fail to act in time.
VIDEO PODCAST: @sfmcguire79 explains how 1619 Project author Nicole Hannah-Jones put her ideology ahead of what's best for her daughter: doing no help to the former, seriously harming the latter.
Watch the full episode of Radio Free Campus on Youtube: youtu.be/bQ6VKwhkojQ
American Council of Trustees and Alumni retweeted
How bad is administrative bloat in higher ed?
At MIT, the “student body has grown by 8% and its faculty by 9% since the mid-1980s. By comparison, the tally of administrators jumped by 189%.”
New piece in @LawLiberty by ACTA President Michael Poliakoff on how (and how not) to run a civics center.
More and more centers are opening, with increasing enrollment. It's time to look at where they succeed and how they can do better.
The College Fix examined the political science departments at six top Pennsylvania universities.
Less than 3% were Republicans. Most schools had none.
ACTA's @sfmcguire79 asks: how can these departments teach politics when the perspective of half the country is absent?
Read the College Fix's analysis: thecollegefix.com/zero-repub…
AI appears to be reversing the decades-long trend of administrative bloat in academia.
Right now AI automates planning events and handling donor relations. But it will eliminate higher-level positions soon - if it hasn't already.
✍️@SeanSalai
📰@WashTimes
🔗Full article: washingtontimes.com/news/202…
American Council of Trustees and Alumni retweeted
🧵The number of humanities dissertations produced annually has declined by almost half, according to a new analysis.
The same report shows that language related to power and identity surged while treatments of “Western,” “European,” and “American” turned increasingly negative.
ACTA's What Will They Learn? project graded colleges in Rhode Island on the rigor of their core curriculum.
Zero A's and just one B for schools in the Ocean State.
See how your alma mater fared at whatwilltheylearn.com/
Universities were quick to dismiss the Trump Administration's call to action as a political hit - but many of the things called for are broadly supported by Americans.
Universities can't both fail to reform internally and decry any attempt towards external reform.
Watch the full episode of Radio Free Campus on Youtube: youtu.be/nayO20DhgQ4
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This event is in just 24 hours! Register now if you haven't already: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
This should be quite the discussion on institutional leadership on free expression our friends at @goACTA are hosting, moderated by @sfmcguire79, and we're all invited!
General info here:
goacta.org/event/learning-fr…
Registration:
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VIDEO PODCAST: Justin Garrison explains that while democracies must tolerate vehement disagreement, there has to be a shared respect for democratic government - something lacking in protest movements on and off-campus.
Watch the full episode of Radio Free Campus on Youtube: youtu.be/nayO20DhgQ4
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