The reports have called upon trustees to take action to address the decline. The General Accounting Office has reported that tuition increased 234 percent from 1980 to 1995. By contrast, household incomes increased by only 82 percent. In the face of these and similar events, concerned alumni, trustees, and educational leaders launched the National Alumni Forum in March of 1995 to mobilize concerned citizens on behalf of academic freedom and excellence on college campuses. Tuition is increasing at twice the inflation rate.
Political correctness is present on too many campuses.
This organization will serve as a voice for interested and concerned alumni and trustees. Since its founding, NAF has worked hard to support programs and policies that encourage high academic standards, strong curricula, and the free exchange of ideas. It opposes practices that threaten intellectual freedom or undermine academic standards and believes that the mission of higher education is teaching, learning and the pursuit of truth. Each taps a major source of leverage over higher education and offers opportunities for constructive change. What English Majors Are Really Studying, informing alumni and the public about the trivialization and politicization of English studies.