West Virginia Tries to Pick Workforce Winners

This semester, as WUNC News’ Brianna Atkinson would have you know, UNC-Chapel Hill professor Seth Kotch replaced a once-detailed, color-coded, seven-page, Trivial Pursuit-themed course syllabus with something “more closely representing…

Great nations have always told their children great stories. From Homer and Virgil to the Bible, inherited narratives teach courage, duty, sacrifice, faith, and belonging. But this inheritance is predicated…

Since at least the early twentieth century, universities have flirted with America’s penchant for “running things like a business.” But like government, non-profits, and other non-businesses that try to be…

In September, the American Bar Association’s law-school accrediting council formally repealed Standard 206, commonly known as its diversity standard. In its earlier form, the standard required law schools to demonstrate…

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…