Perpetual Scandal-Mongering as a Political Tool
Members of the media and faculty erupted into histrionics at the recent appointment of Darrell Allison to the chancellorship of Fayetteville State University. It is a great scandal, they claimed;…
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Higher Education Takes Aim at ‘Colonialist’ Music
“Woke” academics have taken to attacking almost everything that’s traditional in our culture. Math and science are denounced for their “whiteness,” and Shakespeare has to be replaced by writers from…
Letter to the Editor: Conflicts of interest in university governance
To the editor: “A Chancellor Search Tainted with Suspicion and Shrouded in Secrecy” is a great example of political corruption in higher education—as viewed from the outside. Politically connected players…
Did You Know? Where UNC System’s $10 Billion in Revenue Comes From
Everything that the UNC system and its constituent institutions do is dependent on a generous inflow of money. In fiscal year 2020, the UNC system received $10.2 billion in revenues,…
The Liberal Arts: What We Don’t Know
What is the value of a liberal arts education? At a time when parents are wary of taking on loads of debt to finance their children’s college degrees, it was…
Letter to the Editor: What makes a good teacher?
To the editor: Prof. Lucien Ellington’s refrain that kids taught by badly-trained teachers don’t learn their 3 Rs is as old as public education in the USA, yet neither he…
A Chancellor Search Tainted with Suspicion and Shrouded in Secrecy
The recent appointment of Darrell Allison to the chancellorship of Fayetteville State University (FSU) has sparked a controversy. The UNC Board of Governors’ (BOG) announcement elicited immediate pushback from those…
The Appalling Smith College Case—Race Tramples on Truth and Justice
An unfolding case at Smith College shows how the obsession with race can blind administrators to facts and lead them to act in ways that harm innocent people. In 2018,…
Did You Know? Higher Ed Admissions Scandal Comes to Netflix
Netflix’s documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal tells the story of rich parents bribing their children’s way into their college of choice. While the story has been reported…
Reforming Dysfunctional Teacher Education: ‘Back to the Future?’
Most American children are trapped in public elementary and secondary schools that are either mediocre or dysfunctional. Readers who wonder if this statement is polemical should know that for almost…