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Professor David Beito discusses black fraternal orders at four North Carolina schools
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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.
Women in Combat Okay with Obama
Obama will consider combat positions and selective service registration for women
Disinviting William Ayers
A breach of academic freedom?
Griggs v. Duke Power
This paper by Bryan O’Keefe and Richard Vedder raises a provocative question. Does the increase in college enrollment over the past 30 years partly reflect the changing pressures on employers based on a 1971 Supreme Court decision? And if so, could these pressures also explain the much-touted increase in earnings that comes from a college education?
O’Keefe and Vedder explore the impact of the Griggs v. Duke Power decision on today’s college enrollment. In Griggs, the plaintiffs argued that Duke Power’s reliance on two aptitude tests discriminated against minority groups. Subsequent cases and statutory law have changed the environment for employer testing. This may have changed the pressure to attend college.
The paper is jointly published by the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.