Getting Proactive with Academic Corruption
UNC-Chapel Hill’s football scandal shows the need for schools to address academic corruption before it makes headlines.
Author Profile
Jay Schalin
Jay Schalin joined the Martin Center in August 2007. A Philadelphia native, he began his writing career as a freelance journalist for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey and wrote for several other papers in New Jersey and Delaware. Schalin has a B.S. in computer science from Richard Stockton College in New Jersey and an M.A. in economics from the University of Delaware.His articles have appeared in Forbes, the Washington Times, Fox News Online, U.S. News and World Report, Investor's Business Daily, Human Events, and American Thinker. His op-eds have been published by the McClatchy News Service and the Raleigh News & Observer. He has been interviewed on ESPN, National Public Radio, and UNC-TV, and his work has been featured on ABC News and Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor.
Schalin is a member of the National Association of Scholars and is on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.
Articles by Jay Schalin
The Reopening of the American Mind
Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind is still an important work after 25 years, despite some unforeseen events.
The Win-Win Budget Battle
The 2012-13 North Carolina higher education budget provides some badly needed stability, whether or not it actually gets passed into law.
A Failure of Vision
The United States has been making education policies based on false assumptions.
The Myth of STEM Labor Shortages
Despite what the conventional wisdom says, U.S. colleges are producing too many graduates in many scientific and technical fields.
A Solution for a Bygone Era
Producing more science and technical graduates when there are no jobs for them is putting the cart before the horse.
Surviving the Perfect Storm
The Pope Center’s Jay Schalin addresses the University of North Carolina’s Faculty Assembly.
Working on the Tenured Chain Gang
The University of North Carolina’s Governors flee from an opportunity to reform faculty workload regulations.
Indoctrinate Me Not
A new report shows that campus politicization must be stopped for the once-great University of California system to thrive.
Demonizing Profits
The increasing rhetoric against the profit motive, heard everywhere lately from the Occupy movement to the White House, begins on campus.