Yes, You Can Teach about Liberty
Faculty members can take innovative paths in designing courses, with new formats and intellectually enriching content.
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Liberating Chapel Hill
Cutting UNC’s flagship campus loose from the system will help solve some major problems with little negative impact.
When Racial Preferences Fell at UC
A one-sided book treats California’s experience after Prop. 209 as a disaster, while citing figures that show it was not.
Freshman Composition and the Sonnet
One instructor uses a tool largely unfamiliar to college freshmen, the Shakespearean sonnet.
Just Another Radical Obama Appointee
Duke professor Cathy Davidson, nominated for the National Council on the Humanities, is another in a long line of highly questionable Obama appointees.
Nurturing the Dumbest Generation
The progressive theory pushed in education schools may explain why high school students read easy books.
Remediation: Still a Mystery
A Pope Center review of remedial education in the UNC system reveals that no one knows if it is helping the students who take it.
What a Load
A Texas A&M study of faculty productivity led a reporter to scrutinize a university department at UNC-Chapel Hill.
My Very Costly College Education
A graduate laments piling up $200,000 in student debt in exchange for a sociology degree and an “assumed rite of passage.”
An Accident of Planned Growth
North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park became a model for government economic development efforts—unfortunately, however, a misleading one.