The Accreditation Choice Act aims to enhance educational freedom and improve accountability in higher education by expanding accreditation options for colleges and universities. This legislation empowers institutions to seek accreditation…
Republicans and Democrats alike agree about the importance of workforce training. They’re right: Despite a recent labor-market cooling, there are still 7.7 million unfilled jobs in the United States. Unfortunately,…
As political pressures for equity—equality of outcome—have grown in recent years, traditional methods of evaluating college students have come under threat. As the proportion of the population going to college…
Ralston College counts among its first graduates a 24-year-old man who, in his third term of study, asked me what he could do to help ensure our fledgling institution would…
During the Covid pandemic, the University of North Carolina (like many institutions of higher learning) went test-optional. However, the Board of Governors rightly reversed that policy this year, re-establishing a…
The Higher Learning Commission, the largest institutional accreditor in the United States, recently introduced a new process for reviewing bachelor’s-degree programs that require fewer than the traditional 120 academic credits.…
Every year, we get a variety of survey snapshots of student opinion from organizations like the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the Heterodox Academy. I have also come…
Most industries and occupations have trade associations to promote their interests through lobbying, marketing, and public relations. Lawyers are no exception. One difference between, say, the American Urological Association and…
Blueprint for Reform: Surviving the Demographic Cliff is a strategic guide for state legislators and university trustees addressing the challenges posed by declining college enrollments and the anticipated demographic cliff—a…
Ah, October, when temperatures fall, men rake leaves, and universities publish their annual crime data, as required by the 1990 Clery Act. A surprising addition to the calendar, you say?…