From Courtrooms to Classrooms
For most Americans, the American Bar Association is merely a professional guild that publishes ethics opinions, hosts conferences, and occasionally weighs in on public policy. But in legal education, the…
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The Sexual-Violence Reporting Gap Has Flipped
For years, researchers studying sexual violence among young women found something consistent: female college students were not at a higher risk of experiencing sexual violence than women their age who…
New Book Encapsulates Higher Ed’s Problems
Suppose you have a friend who knows little about American higher education but is eager to learn about it. You might want to recommend to him a book that introduces…
UNC Isn’t Waiting for Raleigh
Even as North Carolina lawmakers continue budget negotiations, the UNC System has already implemented many of the cuts proposed by the NC House and Senate. While their total savings fall…
Why the Worst Get on Top in Academia
In Chapter 10 (“Why the Worst Get on Top”) of The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek argued that centralized political authority tends to elevate the worst people in society. Goons…
Colleges Can’t Have Their Cake and Eat it Too
George Leef recently used National Review to highlight Adam Ellwanger’s Martin Center essay on students who treat education as an afterthought. They are describing a real problem. I share their…
The Law School Accommodations Racket
In the fall of 2023, I took my first law school exam, a 13-page extravaganza replete with tortured fact patterns and endlessly subdividing short-answer questions. We had all of three…
North Carolina’s Talent Gap
North Carolina enjoys a healthy, growing economy. Unemployment rates are low. Job growth is robust. And people continue to move to North Carolina at staggering rates. But new data from…
SCiLL’s Scholarships Are Nothing New
At colleges across the country, departments compete for students with scholarships, fellowships, and grants. This practice is so common that it rarely attracts attention. Yet, a recent Daily Tar Heel…
What Would a Pro-Family Academia Look Like?
My most recent Martin Center column highlighted the irony, considering higher education’s formative influence on America’s prevailing anti-natalist culture, of the industry’s anxiety over declining birthrates. “Where,” I asked, “are…