The Reopening of the American Mind
Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind is still an important work after 25 years, despite some unforeseen events.
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The Win-Win Budget Battle
The 2012-13 North Carolina higher education budget provides some badly needed stability, whether or not it actually gets passed into law.
Society Shouldn’t Pay for Your Higher Education
Knowledge and skills are not public goods even though some people in society benefit from them.
Trustees Taking Their Job Seriously—Scandalous!
The removal of the University of Virginia’s president shows that at least one university board is not merely a rubber stamp.
Maximum Education or Maximum Revenue?
College officials may favor their own online courses over less costly ones offered by others.
Grade Inflation, A Year Later
Administrators at Ball State have shown indifference in the face of evidence of slipping academic standards.
Growing Pell-Mell
The government’s program to help low-income students is out of control.
Pell Grants: Where Does All the Money Go?
Jenna Ashley Robinson and Duke Cheston examine how well Pell grants serve students and taxpayers.
You Can’t Win an Argument This Way
A higher education insider tries to respond to a dead-on challenge to the orthodoxy.
UNC-Chapel Hill Redeems Itself
The summer reading assignment at UNC-Chapel Hill and Lenoir-Rhyne University represents a bold break from victimhood.