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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
Kempson, Lauri; Lewin, Greg; Burt, Evan; Poliakoff, Michael – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2014
A college education is rightly part of the American Dream. It is seen as the ticket to success in career and community, a credential that repays the investment of time and money in higher education that students, families, and taxpayers make. In "What Will They Learn?"™ the authors take as a premise that the core purpose of attending…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Core Curriculum, College Curriculum
Kempson, Lauri; Bako, Tom; Markley, Eric – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2012
What does it mean to be a college graduate? One knows about the time and ever-increasing amount of money that a diploma demands. But when it comes down to what matters--the skills and knowledge acquired--what does a college degree mean? That is the question the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) answers in this book. Inside one will…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, College Curriculum, Undergraduate Study, Required Courses
Bako, Tom; Kempson, Lauri; Lakemacher, Heather; Markley, Eric – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2010
The crisis in higher education is about more than money. It is about what one has been paying for, paying for dearly. The public, even in these hard times, supports higher education with its tax dollars. And families make huge sacrifices to send their sons and daughters to college. They deserve in return higher education that provides real…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, College Curriculum, Undergraduate Study, Required Courses
