5. Degree Completion Rates Are a Disgrace
What is your favorite campus doing to make sure students graduate instead of just passing through?
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6. Don’t Feed the Dragon
Campuses are currently wracked by political correctness, harassment accusations, “implicit bias” goose chasing, and hate hunting. Avoid fueling the beast.
1. Colleges Are Underproducing
Ask them to stop wasting resources and become more efficient.
3. More College, More Prosperity
Formal education is oversold. More productive forms of learning should be encouraged at least as much.
2. Students Are In Short Supply
Thanks to birth declines, we have too many college seats. Leaders must make hard choices in response.
America the Beautiful Though Imperfect
A U.S. history that offers a more balanced telling of our national origins
The Crucial Importance of Independent Private Giving
As Karl Zinsmeister writes in this issue, “the priceless American innovation of voluntary private giving is now under ferocious, concerted, coordinated attack.” Wealthy givers are maligned in the media for Read more…
Benefactors Beware
Seven hazards donors to higher ed need to avoid
Governor Pritzker Signs Bill Requiring Civic Education In Illinois Middle Schools
New Public-Private Partnership to Support Implementation
Teaching Civics to Young Americans As If It Mattered
Philanthropy has an opportunity today to refurbish an entire civic culture in disrepair
When Faith and Community Erode
Two new books provide fresh looks at life in the back row
Faith-based colleges increasingly under threat
Adam Kissel tells Fox News how secular forces are using the Federal Government to control what these institutes of higher learning are teaching.
Private Givers Can Open Up the Iron Triangle That Stultifies Vets Policy
Our national leaders should start welcoming new participants into policymaking for veterans.
The Counterrevolution Against School Reform
We are in the midst of a harsh counterrevolution against school reform, and severed heads are beginning to pile up.
Billionaire Sean Parker is nerding out on cancer research Science has never seen anyone quite like him
Science has never seen anyone quite like him
Interview with Catherine Koenen
Catherine Koenen, executive director of the Gianforte Family Foundation, discusses entrepreneurship and how the foundation is creating opportunities in Montana.
PA Civics formed to promote and expand civics education in Pennsylvania
The bipartisan coalition includes former and current public officials
and organizations across the state, including Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.
Recovery Managers
Well before Hurricane Harvey reached Houston in August 2017, it hurtled through Aransas County, Texas. The small coastal region endured 130 mile-per-hour winds, the strongest to hit the United States Read more…
NEH Seeks Proposals for National Convenings on the State of American History and Civics Education
New funding opportunity to gather information on civic literacy within K-12 education, offered through an interagency partnership between NEH and the Department of Education
USCIS Announces Plan to Improve the Naturalization Test
The goal is to create a meaningful, uniform, and efficient test that will assess applicants’ knowledge and understanding of U.S. history, government and values.