Groupthink: Marching to a Single Drumbeat
Why do the professors in a discipline think so much alike? Dan Klein and Charlotta Stern offer some answers.
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No Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The major players in the scandal surrounding Mary Easley’s job at N.C. State were only ordinary flawed people who got caught in a perfect storm of unethical opportunities.
Follow Your Heart
A high school student is forced to choose between attending the first-rate university of her dreams by herself or a lower-quality school with her boyfriend.
African-American Studies–As They Should Be
An ethnic studies department should be a place of learning, not a place for settling old scores or undergoing a 12-step therapy program.
It’s Summer Time and the Reading Is Easy
Freshman “common readings” look like a waste of time when compared to the classics some high schoolers are expected to study.
Raise Our Taxes, Please
The largest professors’ association in North Carolina asks the legislature for progressive tax increases to address the state’s budget deficit.
Just Say No…to a Business Degree
An educational entrepreneur warns parents against advising their children to major in business.
The True Student-Loan Racket
President Obama is planning to change the ways that students obtain loans, with more funds coming directly from the government rather than through subsidized lending. But the fundamental issues surrounding college loans aren’t going to change. They are worrisome.
If you are a taxpayer, you might be surprised at how generous the government is in providing loans and how lax about repayment. If you are a student, you should know that government policies change your incentives: they encourage you to borrow more than you should, to hold on to the loans for years without repaying them, and even to enter jobs that you wouldn’t otherwise have picked.
Educational Luddites Unite! Save the Buggy-whip Manufacturers!
An educational entrepreneur says academia is hanging on to a failed, obsolete ideology while entrepreneurial solutions are revolutionizing the world.
The Privileged Class
The commotion about the university job of a former North Carolina governor’s wife reveals a larger pattern of undue influence throughout the UNC system.