What Is College For?
A recent speech highlighted what a college education should do and the corresponding importance of a core curriculum.
Articles
Articles
Faculty Unions: A Terrible Idea
Charles Baird argues that closed-shop unionization encourages academic mediocrity.
What Faculty Unions Do
Cary Nelson argues that faculty unions accomplish more than collective bargaining.
What Role for Faculty Unions (If Any)?
Cary Nelson and Charles Baird debate the merits of faculty unions.
Adrift or Foundering?
Students are adrift because college was never intended for mass production of degrees.
Ten Top Books on Higher Education
Do you agree that these are the best books to understand what is going on in America’s colleges and universities?
War of the Genders
“Male Studies” wants some of the college turf now dedicated to Women’s and Men’s studies.
Protecting the “Job Drivers”
Community colleges will try differential state funding, which gives more money to more technical classes.
How Does Your University Measure Up?
The Pope Center and ACTA examine the state of general education at colleges and universities in North Carolina.
A Proposal for Cutting the 2011 UNC Budget
This report provides the Pope Center’s criteria for cutting university budgets, along with specific cuts to the 2011-13 UNC budget.