Rewriting the Rules of Accreditation

The University of North Carolina Wilmington has initiated an ambitious project to establish a medical school intended to alleviate a severe shortage of physicians in rural and underserved areas of…

Harvard Medical School (HMS) has just released the Report of the HMS Open Inquiry Working Group, which contains detailed recommendations for restoring liberty to the school. These recommendations, if put into…

Imagine walking into an undergraduate philosophy class and finding an 85-year-old retiree debating an 18-year-old freshman. As colleges try to reverse enrollment declines, Goucher College has turned to a surprising…

The leadership of the “Student Intifada,” the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), has escalated its war against normalcy and decency in academia. Its incrementalist approach to taking over…

I have always found it inspiring that the University of North Carolina was chartered in 1789—during the same legislative session that ratified the American Constitution. The demands of citizenship were…

As we reflect on 250 years of American exceptionalism, it’s natural to ask: what’s next, especially in the context of education? If America is to flourish in 2276, what should…

Governing is hard, serious work. Even when we dislike the agenda of the party in power, we should prefer savvy professionalism to bumbling amateurism. When officials seek to shift international…

A point that has generated much discussion is the decline in confidence in and support for higher education. Over the last ten years or so, the percentage of Americans who…