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06/24/2026

🎥 Patrick Henry College Dean of Academic Affairs Mark T. Mitchell explains the REAL cost of AI to a university education.

Click the link to listen to the full episode of Higher Ed Now on Spotify:

06/23/2026

Horrifying: ACTA's survey of American college students finds 57% of young Americans would prefer to flee the country than to fight for it.

Why? Because students who don't know the American story have no reason to defend what they do not comprehend.

Read the full survey results exposing the depths of civic & historical ignorance among American college students:

In the spring of 2026, ACTA surveyed over 3,000 college and university students on basic knowledge of American history and government. Our...

06/21/2026

📹Of the last 100 honorary degrees awarded at Yale, guess how many went to Republicans?

One. Exactly one.

From the new episode of Radio Free Campus with the Buckley Institute's Lauren Noble:

06/20/2026

"College professor is the only profession that you can enter without any professional preparation."

UPenn professor John Zimmerman is skeptical about the civics revival if there's no instruction in instruction. We must train teachers as well as students.

06/19/2026

📹 On the Glenn Loury Show, ACTA president Michael Poliakoff explains that faculty governance ends when faculty is derelict.

Trustees at a state university have a duty to the taxpayer to ensure young people receive a complete education.

06/18/2026

"Our students need to know more about civics, to be sure, but we need to know more about teaching."

UPenn History professor Jonathan Zimmerman argues that the civics education movement also needs to teach teachers HOW to teach civics. Without effective instruction, any efforts to revive civics knowledge "will be building on sand."

Civic education initiatives are important, but they will only be successful if professors are better prepared to teach them, and institutions provide real incentives for good instruction.

06/17/2026

VIDEO PODCAST: "39% of Yale students say that they self-censor often in class."

On Radio Free Campus, the Buckley Institute's Lauren Noble breaks down the culture of self-censorship at Yale - and the shocking % of Republican students who self-censor.

06/16/2026

On Glenn Loury's show, ACTA president Michael Poliakoff explains that faculty governance meets its limits when faculty is derelict.

Trustees at a public university have a duty to the taxpayer to ensure young people receive a complete education.

06/16/2026

VIDEO PODCAST: Yale's report on trust in higher education moved in the right direction by admitting they have a serious problem.

On Radio Free Campus, the Buckley Institute's Lauren Noble explains how Yale has taken the first step to solving that problem:

06/15/2026

Patrick Henry College on receiving the highest WWTL grade:

https://www.pr.com/press-release/970937

ACTA's What Will They Learn?® project is proud to award Patrick Henry College an “A+” for its standout core curriculum.

In an era when many universities are lowering their standards, Patrick Henry College serves as a model of curricular rigor - from American history to rhetoric to sciences and much more.