Nov 14, 2025

Black Americans Are Discarding “College for All”

How should education reformers respond?

The largest changes in college enrollment by black students have nothing to do with Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023), which banned affirmative action (“diversity”) in undergraduate admissions. SFFA…

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Nov 13, 2025

Do Americans Still (Mostly) Love Their Universities?

If you’ve picked up a newspaper or talked to the average American about colleges in the last few years, you’ve likely gotten mixed reviews. After all, tuition rates keep rising,…

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Nov 12, 2025

The Compliance Theatre of Online Learning

Artificial intelligence has democratized knowledge more than any invention in history. Anyone can now solve a problem in physics, medicine, or Greek literature instantly. Yet the safeguards that once verified…

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Nov 10, 2025

‘One Flew Over the Provost’s Nest’

The college experience has traditionally been thought of as idyllic years of sorority and fraternity parties, football games, hijinks, and finding the right one with whom to share your life.…

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Nov 7, 2025

Don’t Limit Foreign-Student Enrollment

For too long, merit has taken a back seat in American higher education. Under the banner of DEI, admissions policies at many institutions have prioritized demographic balancing over academic excellence.…

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Nov 6, 2025

Questions for the NCCCS Presidential Search

Earlier this year, Dr. Jeff Cox, president of the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS), announced his intention to retire in June 2026. Consequently, the NCCCS must now find its…

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Peer Review Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.

Within academia, there seems to be a growing consensus that the peer-review system—once the backbone of academic scholarship—is broken. But is it irreparably so? Perhaps. At the very least, the…

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Nov 3, 2025

The UNC System’s AI Labyrinth

Much like the arrival of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, the introduction of AI into the culture has been met with fear, excitement, and a rush to keep…

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Oct 31, 2025

The Next Step in Ending Racial Preferences in Higher Education

For decades, the higher-education establishment was allowed to do pretty much whatever it pleased. That included promoting programs and policies to benefit what were termed “underserved groups.” An array of…

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