Comparing Apples and Oranges at UNC-Chapel Hill
How do you measure curiosity? Or kindness? Is it even possible to do such a thing? And, if so, can it be done by an admissions office that reads more…
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Stop Overregulating Research
The newly inaugurated second Trump administration has arrived, and among the changes that the president and his allies have proposed is large-scale simplification and elimination of government regulations. President Trump…
Will NIL Turn “Big Man on Campus” into Untouchable Man?
College football is still recovering from the shock of former University of Georgia quarterback Carson Beck’s $4.4-million agreement with the University of Miami. Beck has, as of last week, signed…
Georgia Unplugs the Bias Machine
People often ask me how, as an outspoken conservative professor at a large state university, I can get away with some of the things I say on social media and…
Is the “Covid Cohort” Less Woke?
Students who came to college in the fall of 2024 are the first class that spent the entirety of their high-school years in a pandemic-shaped world. These students are called…
“Majority Groups” Are Seizing Anti-Discrimination Law
We are witnessing a sea change around DEI, “wokeness,” political correctness, and the like. For now, the anti-woke and anti-DEI forces have the upper hand. A big question looms in…
Saint Augustine’s Hail Mary
Saint Augustine’s University (SAU), a private Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Raleigh, N.C., announced on December 11 that it had been removed from membership with the Southern Association…
Is Higher Education Inevitably Stuck in the Past?
A common refrain among observers of American higher education is that it changes at a glacial pace—if even that fast. The structure of our colleges and universities serves largely to…
Higher Ed’s Frightening “New Normal”
The already competitive higher-ed marketplace is on the cusp of becoming even more challenging for colleges as they fight to pull from a dwindling pool of eligible students. With the…
Why Are Our Campuses Seething with Antisemitism?
The scale of support on college campuses for militant antisemitism and even for Hamas barbarism has alarmed most Americans, but there’s something else here that ought to trouble us, too:…