It All Depends On What Academic Freedom Is
A new Pope Center paper sheds light on a hotly debated topic.
Articles by George Leef
Adrift in the Slow Lane of Learning
A new paper by Mark Bauerlein confirms the unspoken agreement: professors teach little, and students learn less.
Only Rubber-Stamps and Jellyfish Need Apply
Dartmouth’s high-handed dismissal of Todd Zywicki from the Board of Trustees constitutes an abuse of authority worthy of the old Soviet Politburo.
I Pledge Allegiance, To the Diversity…
Virginia Tech has proposed guidelines mandating attitudes toward diversity that stifle academic freedom.
Minority Students and Research Universities:
There is nothing to be gained and quite a bit to be lost if we follow preferential policies that deliberately trump merit with group classifications.
Cheating is So Much Easier
For-profit “essay mills” cater to lazy and dishonest students.
Obama Fudges Some Figures
A careful look at Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that most of the jobs in the fastest-growing occupations don’t require any college education.
Term Limits for Tenure
Some professors say it causes inefficiencies, inhibits innovations, and stifles the very freedom of expression it was supposed to defend.
A is for Average, B is for Being There
And C is for….comatose? A new look at grade inflation and the entitlement mentality.
Pushing Academic Freedom Too Far
A Canadian professor openly rejects teaching the actual course material to politically indoctrinate.