Reforms We Want in 2024
Each year, the staff of the Martin Center share our higher-ed-reform dreams for the coming year. Will all of our wishes come true? Probably not. Nevertheless, we offer them here…
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How and Why Are American Minds Being Canceled?
Colleges and universities keep telling us that they teach “critical thinking” skills, but in reality they are deeply complicit in the destruction of the ability to think at all. They’re…
Universities Can Do More to Prepare Students for the Workforce
One of the main goals of colleges and universities is to prepare students to enter the workforce, ideally in a manner connected to their fields of study. Likewise, a college…
“To Carthage Then I Came”
College freshmen have just completed their first semester at their chosen schools. All over the country, and indeed all over the world, dorms have been settled into, majors and classes…
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10 Books We Want Under the Tree in 2023
Time for a confession: Last year, I set my goal for the Martin Center’s library far too high. I hoped we would have 1,000 books by the end of 2023.…
Falling ACT Scores Hold a Lesson for Universities
A record number of students are failing to reach college-readiness benchmarks. The data, from testing giant ACT, come as scores fall for the sixth straight year. ACT’s college-readiness benchmarks aim…
Tennessee (Kind of) Tackles DEI in Higher Ed
The DEI takeover at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) and throughout the University of Tennessee System has met with some legislative opposition. The legislature has sought to turn DEI offices…
Chapel Hill Should Make a Political Hire
What strange things people say. Shortly before accepting the presidency of Michigan State University earlier this month, UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz made clear that he would not tolerate “undue…
Academia’s “Ethnic Cleansing” Hits Music
One of the most striking aspects of the “woke” domination of our education system is the way anyone who is perceived as a dissenter is likely to be targeted, much…