America’s colleges and universities are caught up in the cultural turmoil of our age, and Jewish students, Jewish ideas, and the Jewish state are at the very center. Parents are wondering if their sons and daughters will be safe on campus. Jewish families are wondering whether the highly-ranked universities which they once saw as avenues to meritocratic, American success can still provide talented young people with a serious education and professional opportunities. Real questions have emerged about the content of a liberal arts education, and how to navigate the overly politicized and ideologically biased disciplines that shape the moral imagination: history, politics, literature, and religion. Students, parents, teachers, and guidance counselors all sense that the old guides to “the best colleges” no longer meet the moment, do not speak to the educational concerns of Jewish applicants, and have never even tried to dimension the full scope of Jewish institutional life on different campuses.
**Tikvah is proud to announce a new forthcoming tool that brings all this information together for the first time: the Exodus Index.
We have long been engaged in building a strong network of the most talented teachers and most promising students in the country. Now, we are going to spotlight the very best university programs, so that Jewish students, their parents, day school educators, guidance counselors, and conscientious donors can identify the institutions where Jewish students can still access a good education, and that truly deserve their talents and engagement.
The Exodus Index will highlight colleges and universities that have:

· A serious approach to the classical liberal arts, · Faculty dedicated to teaching the great texts and ideas of Western and Hebraic civilization· A culture that rejects fashionable anti-Jewish attitudes· Administrators with backbone and prudence· And a strong and intellectually rigorous Jewish life**
No other college guide will analyze all of these dimensions because no other college guide has asked our questions.
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