The DEI Mandates That Won’t Go Away

What makes America the best country in the world? Freedom. And when it comes to free speech, North Carolina may be one of the best states in the country.  In…

Like many who’ve spent any degree of time instructing undergraduates, I’m all for complaining about the youth, and I have accumulated substantial material to work with. In many ways, the…

Last week, UNC-Chapel Hill became the most recent university in the country to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over allegations of antisemitism and racial preferences. It also…

My wife, daughter, and I walk through our neighborhood every day. I’ve been monitoring the situation at one house for the last few years—the yard is usually clogged with old…

Note: NC State football coach Dave Doeren was fired right before this report’s publication.  College sports aren’t all fun and games. They come at a real cost to students and taxpayers,…

Once upon a time, an American president declared, “It is perfectly apparent that the needs of education were never greater than they are at the present time.” But it was…

In many ways, the modern university’s two decisive constituencies are the trustees and the faculty. The trustees are the university’s ultimate executive authority; the faculty carry out the university’s core…

Hardly anybody thinks better of themselves than journalists—their foremost competition being, perhaps, academics. The cacophony of self-congratulation reaches a peak in state-funded journalism; the fact of the venture’s unprofitability seems…