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Topics => The "Educators" => Topic started by: Libertas on May 29, 2024, 09:41:16 AM
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Colleges with ‘clear sense of mission’ often ‘perform quite well’
Seven colleges received a perfect score for their core curriculum, according to a higher education reform group.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni added an “A+” score to its “What Will They Learn” grades for the first time in the nearly 30-year history of its report card. Of the seven colleges, four are Catholic, one is Orthodox Christian, one is Protestant, and another is a public university in Virginia.
Those seven schools are: “Christopher Newport University, Patrick Henry College, Thomas Aquinas College in California, Thomas Aquinas College in Massachusetts, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, the University of Dallas, and the University of Saint Katherine,” according to the latest rating.
Patrick Henry College is Protestant, while the University of Saint Katherine is Orthodox.
The group’s vice president of policy commented on why Catholic and Protestant schools were most of the highly rated colleges.
“There are likely two reasons that Catholic and Christian schools receive high What Will They Learn? grades,” Bradley Jackson told The College Fix via a media statement.
“Liberal arts education has long been a hallmark of Catholic and Christian education in the United States and abroad, and the What Will They Learn? system evaluates universities on their requirements in the liberal arts,” Jackson stated. “We also find that institutions with a clear sense of mission, which religious institutions often have, perform quite well in our rating system.”
ACTA grades colleges on “seven essential subject areas” which are, according to Jackson, “Composition, Literature, intermediate-level Foreign Language, U.S. Government or History, Economics, Mathematics, and Natural Science. ‘A+’ institutions require all B.A. and B.S.-seeking students to take all seven of these subject areas at the college level.”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/just-seven-colleges-get-a-for-core-curriculum-from-higher-ed-reform-group/ (https://www.thecollegefix.com/just-seven-colleges-get-a-for-core-curriculum-from-higher-ed-reform-group/)
That some are doing things right and are religious and/or not in the news for ignorant protest meltdowns is a good thing.