Apr 30, 2025

Universities Can Appease the Right

It’s time to get serious about ideological balance on campus. Here’s how.

Universities are currently experiencing a full-blown assault from the federal government and from red-state politicians. Tired of subsidizing universities as a hotbed of ideological activism, Republican leaders are cutting budgets,…

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The Case for Higher-Ed “Co-Op” Programs

Like many students, I waited months after graduation before receiving a job offer. Why this delay for many of the nation’s recent graduates? The answer, in part, is that most…

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Apr 27, 2025

Growth Beyond the Classroom—A Decade of Staffing and Spending in the UNC System

Growth Beyond the Classroom—A Decade of Staffing and Spending in the UNC System analyzes staffing and salary expenditure trends across the University of North Carolina (UNC) System from 2015-16 through…

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Apr 25, 2025

Should the NCAA’s Transgender Records Stand?

Rule changes in sports have the potential to rewrite the record books. Usually, a change in how the game is played—to improve player safety or to speed up the action…

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Apr 24, 2025

A Morning at SCiLL

Earlier this month, I got the chance to be a student again for just one morning. It was an opportunity offered to all members of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of…

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Apr 23, 2025

50-State Comparison: College Graduation Rates

Public institutions have a unique responsibility to serve their students well and use their taxpayer-funded resources effectively. Some states, however, produce better outcomes than others. This is made clear in…

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Apr 23, 2025

The Phony War on Accreditors

It is a low bar to clear, but college accreditation has never been so hotly commented on as at present. Many in the higher-ed world fear for its future. Two…

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Apr 21, 2025

GenAI Will Not Make Students Smarter

By now, most North Carolinians are at least somewhat familiar with Generative AI (GenAI). As tech journalist George Lawton explains, GenAI “uses sophisticated algorithms to organize large, complex data sets…

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Apr 18, 2025

Ideas and Their Consequences

Thirty years before the fall of communism, Karol Wojtyła began to see that if a successful defense of the “metaphysical sense and mystery” of the human person were not mounted…

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