A PhD Built for the Real World

Peter Berkowitz is one of those rare public intellectuals who doesn’t mind being on the “wrong” side of hot controversies—which is to say, he’s willing to clash with the “progressive”…

For decades, the American university has been drifting away from its most important purpose: giving students a common education in the knowledge and principles they need to become educated citizens.…

Higher education has long included graduate degrees in the United States. But over the last decade or so, the number of students seeking degrees after earning their bachelors has been…

The Department of War (DoW) has announced that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be among 19 new hosts of the Senior Service College Fellowship.  The ten-month…

In 2021, North Carolina made a decision that deserves real credit. With the passage of the Gizella Abramson Holocaust Education Act, the state mandated Holocaust education in public middle and…

For years, higher education could count on Democrats to be in its corner. But that confidence is beginning to crack. A recent Gallup and Lumina Foundation survey found that the…

That the United States has entered a crisis of civic knowledge is no secret. Students’ knowledge of American history and politics in recent years has plunged to an all-time low…

In future histories of higher education, the current moment may be called the “Great Confusion.” At present, no one really knows why universities exist. Various ideas about the university’s purpose…