Leadership Crack-ups
The fault may lie with naive trustees and a flawed search process.
Articles
Articles
Trembling in the Ivory Tower
Kenneth Lasson: Trembling in the Ivory Tower; Bancroft Press; 2003; 196 pp. If one listens to spokesmen for the higher-education establishment, America’s colleges and universities are the envy of the world,…
Free Speech on Campus?
Sure—as long as you haven’t previously said anything to offend groups that now hold trump cards.
The Value of the Humanities
A book by a British professor fails to find good arguments for teaching the humanities.
A Sickness in the Soul
It is time to recognize that academia–including the University of North Carolina–has lost its moral compass.
Free College for Inmates?
States like North Carolina should look to private funding for prison education programs.
Title IX Compliance and Then Some
One year after a complaint to the federal government, UNC-Chapel Hill is spending big to prevent the next one.
Debating HBCUs
An event at NC Central posed tough questions about the viability of historically black universities.
Bullying or Caving In?
A report claims that the philosophy department at the University of Colorado-Boulder harasses its female faculty.
A Tower of Babel, Not a Marketplace of Ideas
The proliferation of identity politics on our campuses is destroying intellectual vitality.