How to Create Terrible Professors
Many graduate students start to teach without knowing a thing about how to do it. I was one of them.
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Engaging Slackers
Participants in a Pope Center conference discussed how to focus the attention of disengaged students on learning.
“Critical Thinking” Minus Criticism and Thought
It’s more about teaching what to think than how to think.
Black Entrepreneurs
Professor David Beito discusses black fraternal orders at four North Carolina schools
College Sports: Foul Ball or Fair Play?
Discussion at a Pope Center conference focused on the potential for reforming college athletics.
Is it Fair to Call Them “Failure Factories”?
A higher education leader has harsh words for many colleges
No Time for a Spending Spree
North Carolina’s community colleges should question their “all things to all people” policies.
A Most Unnatural State of Nature
A UNC speaker’s report that global capitalism is dead is premature, but that does not faze the true believers.
Costly Unintended Consequences
How a Supreme Court ruling boosted the demand for college credentials
Why We Lost the Great Books
Speaking in Charlotte, Notre Dame scholar Ralph McInerny discusses the classics and what went wrong.