Jul 18, 2025

Colleges Are Reaping the Anti-Natalist Whirlwind

Morally autonomous consumers are not producing the next generation of freshmen.

A recent report from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) forecasts that this fall will be the last year of college-admissions bounty, with high-school graduates nationwide hitting their…

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Jul 17, 2025

Not All New Credentials Are Created Equal

A new report from AEI and the Burning Glass Institute offers a data-rich yet sobering diagnosis of modern credentialism. As Americans have sought faster, cheaper alternatives to traditional college degrees,…

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Jul 16, 2025

The Diversity Game Is a Gigantic Con

In his famous story “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” Hans Christian Andersen imagines a situation where everyone fears to speak the truth about an obvious falsehood, namely that the emperor’s supposedly…

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Jul 14, 2025

Higher Ed’s Crisis of Domestic Confidence

Buried in a recent report from the Economic Innovation Group is a statistic that should make every university administrator in America lose sleep: Foreign-born workers who arrived in the U.S.…

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Jul 11, 2025

Debunking the “Teachers Who Look Like Them” Myth

A mysterious fever gripped the nation in 2020. Some called it mass formation psychosis. Others called it hysteria. It was a result of three distinct events, as well as institutional…

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Jul 10, 2025

Cosmetic Change at the University of Wyoming

On May 15, the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees voted to cancel five degree tracks, including a Ph.D. in Botany, an M.A. in Molecular Biology, and a B.A. in…

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How Higher Ed Can Ace Civics Education

A need to reinvest in civics education has become a bipartisan refrain in recent years. While academics lament declining trust in our institutions and worsening political polarization, civics education has…

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Jul 7, 2025

How “Free” Are North Carolina’s Colleges?

“Diversity” is a word that we’ve heard frequently over the last few years. Immediately, race, gender, and sexual orientation come to mind. Many universities use the word in those senses…

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Jul 4, 2025

The Time for a Civil-Rights Audit Is Now

The best time for a university to perform a civil-rights audit was two full years ago, right after the Supreme Court announced its decisions in the Students for Fair Admissions…

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