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Committed to academic excellence, academic freedom, and accountability in higher education. Support ACTA: https://t.co/Sjs2QXamAI
Washington, DC
Joined June 2011
State governments nationwide now have a blueprint to promote merit, fairness, and accountability in higher education: Ohio's SB1. The landmark bill, which ACTA testified in favor of, serve as a model for other states to follow.
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From Professor Fryer's panel alongside WSJ columnist Jason Riley at the Levy Forum for Open Discourse: https://t.co/hNObIQS0l7
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"If my daughters don't have good SAT scores, it's not because of institutional racism. It's because they suck." With his trademark wit, Professor Roland Fryer explains how affirmative action (which he benefited from greatly as a student) no longer serves its intended goal.
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ACTA's Campus Freedom Initiative (led by @sfmcguire79 ) found rampant self-censorship at Arizona public universities. Once the findings were published the Arizona Board of Regents + America's largest university ASU contacted us on how to improve their free speech climate.
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Congrats, @jaypgreene! Accreditation reform is critical to the future of higher education!
I'm honored to have been elected chair of NACIQI and look forward to working with all of its members to help ensure the quality and integrity of higher education.
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This was ACTA's biggest year ever. For the rest of 2025, we'll be looking back at our biggest accomplishments from the past year. CD&D's tireless work to restore free expression and civil discourse on campus has engaged thousands of students across 65 institutions in 2025.
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🔊David Rabban, law professor at UT Austin, explains how academic freedom means professors are free to teach and research. Professors get no special protections for political speech beyond the First Amendment. WATCH David on Radio Free Campus on Youtube:
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At the Utah System of Higher Education's annual summit, ACTA's Armand Alacbay breaks down what the average college student CAN'T do: -Interpret data -Compare cost-per-weight of items -Compare viewpoints in two competing editorials (this explains a lot)
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Accreditation is significantly broken. ACTA's Kyle Beltramini explains that in addition to the issues flagged by AEI, accreditors lack the power to meaningfully discipline universities that engage in fraud or misconduct.
🚨NEW RESEARCH: Rethinking Accreditation in Higher Education by @JeanneAllen. https://t.co/56A5DucVOn
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I’ll be participating in this panel discussion of the Trump administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education at 1pm this afternoon. Link below. Join us!
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Goucher's course catalogue explains that students who take Biohistorical Citizenship will explore "the concomitant processes and practices that facilitate the transmission, reproduction, and elaboration of knowledge in the context of biology and history." Perfectly clear.
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Thank you @RepGregMurphy for hosting the 5th Annual Campus Free Speech Roundtable. ACTA has been honored to send a rep for each of these important events. During today’s lively discussion @repfine challenged panelists to present him with a ten-second synopsis of how Congress
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You may see a certain logic to offering a gen-ed science course on beer. As they say, meet the students where they're at - the keg. Brilliant idea for an elective. Iffy-at-best for core curriculum.
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“Our job is to teach the children, not be the children.” UVA law prof Xiao Wang after his colleagues went full toddler tantrum because they didn’t like a Supreme Court case he argued (and won 9-0 with KBJ writing). Get these people their blankies and some milk.
🚨 From Smears to Plate-Throwing: Inside UVA Law’s DEI Mob vs. Professor Xiao Wang Stick with this one—it’s worth the runtime. UVA law professor Xiao Wang explains what his own colleagues did to him after he argued Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services at the Supreme Court:
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What Will They Learn tracks core curriculum requirements and grades universities on their rigor (Portland State, you won't be surprised, gets an F):
whatwilltheylearn.com
Unfortunately, most rankings don't tell you what matters most: what students learn. Our college ratings tool grades colleges and universities in seven core areas of knowledge.
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From Samuel Delany to Mike Pondsmith, there are plenty of black sci-fi luminaries. The head-scratcher is how a sci-fi lit course fulfills Portland State's SOCIAL SCIENCES requirement. ...Which is the only gen-ed requirement Portland State has.
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And ACTA! @sfmcguire79 will be in good company at Rep. Murphy's roundtable. Full media inquiry:
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Dr. Steven McGuire, the Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom, will participate in the fifth annual Campus Free Speech Roundtable.
📣! Tomorrow (12/12) at 8:00 a.m., @RepGregMurphy convenes the 5th annual Campus Free Speech Roundatble, with several of our @afsaalumni partner organizations on hand, including @TheJeffersonC, @PrincetoniansFS, and @DFTDunite. Link to watch the discussion in next post. 👉
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Physical fitness matters. And there's a case to be made for phys-ed in general education. Except at Keene State, exercise courses count as NATURAL SCIENCE credits. But who needs to learn physics or chemistry when you can work on your beach bod for gen-ed credits?
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