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Download full textMayer Bryant, Veronica; Hsu, Gabriella; Kempson, Lauri – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2022
ACTA's What Will They Learn?® (WWTL) project is designed to help students choose the best college or university for them. The printed report and its online companion WhatWillTheyLearn.com represent the only assessment of U.S. colleges and universities that focuses on what schools are actually teaching. This report assigns grades to over 1,130…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, College Curriculum, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Pidluzny, Jonathan; Urban, Nathaniel; Quillen, Alexandra; Kempson, Lauri – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2021
"What Will They Learn?" has been documenting for the last 13 years the crisis of weak core curriculum requirements. In addition to helping students choose the right college for the right reasons, American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) works with college and university leaders on campuses around the country to strengthen curricula…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, College Curriculum, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Pidluzny, Jonathan; Urban, Nathaniel; Quillen, Alexandra; Kempson, Lauri – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2020
In this 12th edition of its flagship annual survey of college general education curricula, "What Will They Learn?," American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) shines a light on the wide disparity in academic standards at institutions of higher learning across the country. "What Will They Learn?" reviews the core curricula…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, College Curriculum, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
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Direct linkCampbell, Toni A.; Campbell, David E. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2007
In this study, the long-term academic effects of mentoring relationships in higher education are explored, with particular emphasis on students in ethnic categories with a low first-year retention rate. A sample of 339 undergraduate students in a student-faculty mentor program was statistically paired with 339 nonmentored controls on gender,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Study, Ethnicity, Mentors
PDF pending restorationBattaglini, Janis K. – Maryland Higher Education Commission, 2004
This report contains the retention and graduation patterns of full-time undergraduate students at Maryland's public four-year colleges and universities from 1982 to 2002. Specifically, it looks at the number and percentage of students who were retained at their original public four-year campus and those who graduated from any senior public college…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Colleges, Higher Education, Graduation Rate
Hughes, Georgia K. – Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia (NJ1), 2005
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) began, upon its institution in 2002, to hold states more directly accountable for the progress of all students, including students of color and students of low socioeconomic status (SES). These groups of students have historically performed less well than their White or upper-class peers. In 2001, prior…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, African American Community, College Preparation
