This report proposes practical and actionable solutions for strengthening the student educational experience, increasing completion rates, and increasing affordability.

This report, based largely on original research commissioned by the American Academy’s Humanities Indicators, examines a broader range of measures about holders of four-year bachelor’s degrees, including graduates’ satisfaction with their jobs, finances, and lives generally. (An update of this report was published in 2022.)

Amid increasing concern over the extent to which the public values scientific evidence, this report offers an in-depth examination of the current state of trust in science among Americans.

This report addresses two issues central to the vitality of America's research enterprise: 1) the support of early-career investigators; and 2) the encouragement of high-risk, high-reward research.

“Probing Human Origins” explores, from various perspectives, how humans became human. This collection of papers acknowledges the importance of genetic ‘blueprints’ but rejects the idea that the DNA sequence of the human genome contains a book of instructions that defines being human. Instead, it promotes the idea that during humankind’s evolutionary history, genic changes occurred in ancestral genomes that were positively selected to help shape the distinctive human phenotype.