Harvard’s Former President Responds to Attacks on Elite Colleges
Derek Bok has served as president of Harvard twice, from 1971 to 1991 and again from 2006-07. He has written much about higher education and is by no means a…
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“Health Equity” Will Destroy North Carolina’s Medical Schools
Surveying American institutions, one searches in earnest for even a few organizations or systems that progressives have been unable to control. News story after news story confirms that indeed that…
STEM-ing the Tide of Scientific and Mathematical Illiteracy in the Law
In 1897, before becoming a justice of the Supreme Court, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, “For the rational study of the law … the man of the future is the man…
Graduate Enrollment Is Softening? Good.
The number of students enrolling in graduate school is steadily declining, according to a recent report by the Council of Graduate Schools. Although grad-school enrollment increased by six percent between…
Diversity-Statement Bans Don’t Go Far Enough
Near the end of this academic year, two elite universities announced the elimination of one of the most prominent symbols of the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) apparatus on campus:…
Online-Learning Partners Can Help North Carolina Students
Online learning comes in many forms—some better than others, as we learned in 2020. Leveraging effective tools is essential to making it work well for students and schools. In the…
Defending the Reconquista at New College
The decision by Florida governor Ron DeSantis in 2023 to oust the radicals controlling the state’s tiny liberal-arts college, New College of Florida, has elicited frenzied reactions from the global…
UNC Asheville Should Start Over
Last month, UNC Asheville chancellor Kimberly van Noort proposed the closure of several academic programs and departments in response to budget deficits. The cuts were prompted by UNCA’s declining enrollment…
The Neo-Tribes of Anthropology
Anthropology’s main purpose is to teach us about others—other cultures and people from other times. The study of the other was meant to show us human diversity and similarities. This…
UNC’s Diversity Challenge
Should UNC-Chapel Hill, the flagship university of North Carolina, represent the diversity of the state? That is a question that seems to be on many minds. Because diversity does offer…