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Jon Sanders

Jon Sanders is Director of Regulatory Studies at the John Locke Foundation. Before assuming his current responsibilities, Sanders served as JLF's Associate Director of Research. He also researched issues in higher education for the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy and has been an adjunct instructor in economics at North Carolina State University. Sanders has been widely published, appearing in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, ABC News online, Townhall.com, FrontPage Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, the Philadelphia Inquirer as well as numerous newspapers across North Carolina. A native of Garner, N.C., Sanders holds a masters degree in economics with a minor in statistics and a bachelors degree in English literature and language from N.C. State.

Articles by Jon Sanders

May 24, 2002 · Jon Sanders

Today’s students get to dictate what constitutes a general education

Universities ostensibly provide students with rigorous training to prepare them for their chosen field. There’s more to it than that, however, because if it were only that, the students could skip the addlepated rigmarole that has become an accepted part of what’s blithely called “the college experience” (which amounts to hazing or coddling, depending upon one’s fealty to the campus’s hair-trigger socialist bent) and go directly to a private provider of vocational training.

May 17, 2002 · Jon Sanders

Sign a form, get college credit

Shortly after winning the glorified popularity contest to be next year’s student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jen Daum announced her plans to develop a course to teach students how to lobby the legislature. As reported by The Daily Tar Heel March 8, “Daum said students’ lack of knowledge about lobbying is a major reason why the university’s governing bodies have not been receptive to students’ concern in matters like the recent tuition proposals.”

May 10, 2002 · Jon Sanders

Va. Attorney General says universities can’t justify preferences for remediation

Racial and ethnic preferences in admissions and scholarships at Virginia state public universities can no longer be justified on the basis of remedying past discrimination, according to a memorandum from the office of Virginia Attorney General.

May 3, 2002 · Jon Sanders

N.C. State supports civil discourse, embattled professor

Administrators and professors at North Carolina State University have come to the support of embattled Prof. Philip Muñoz. Muñoz’s Political Science 205 class on Law and Justice was the site of an alleged racial attack Feb. 19, when a white female student, angered by the heated comments made about America and its treatment of blacks by a black student, Najja Baptist, told Baptist “go back to Africa.”

Apr 26, 2002 · Jon Sanders

Sept. 11 figures in campus discussions on health, discrimination, and racism

The terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent U.S. war on terrorism were the subjects of a recent teach-in at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and were also referenced by North Carolina State University students during two recent campus events focusing on an entirely different subject, the racial climate.

Apr 19, 2002 · Jon Sanders

Racial hypersensitivity poisons the campus climate

N.C. State has gone to great lengths to gauge its “racial climate.” But how worthwhile is this activity, really? A voluntary demonstration ostensibly designed to list incidents of racial injustices at N.C. State produced only four, all of which were really examples of racial hypersensitivity, only two of which related to N.C. State, and one of which was from two decades prior.

Apr 15, 2002 · Jon Sanders

Black student newspaper at N.C. State finds a real white devil

On the back page of its Feb. 14-21 issue, the Nubian featured a large picture of “The infamous Darren O’Connor.” A diabolical reddish glow suffuses O’Connor’s face, almost crowding out his features, except for the dark hollows of his eyes, which are exaggerated by the hellish light.

Apr 12, 2002 · Jon Sanders

N.C. State to issue bonds for conference center, hotel, and golf course project

North Carolina State University is soon going into the hotel business. Construction is slated to begin this year on the Centennial Campus Executive Conference Center and hotel, which would offer 250 rooms and 29,000 square feet of meeting space, to be complemented by a 18-hole championship golf course, all built on the university’s Centennial Campus.

Apr 5, 2002 · Jon Sanders

Study: Women’s studies texts full of deliberate factual errors, ideological bias

The Independent Women’s Forum has released a major review of textbooks used in college Women’s Studies departments. The review, authored by senior fellow Chistine Stolba, challenges the “propaganda, not scholarship,” being put forth by women’s studies textbooks.

Mar 28, 2002 · Jon Sanders

Survey finds one-sided political affiliation among UNC-Chapel Hill faculty

A survey of faculty members in nine departments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that over four-fifths are registered Democrats. The results of the survey, conducted by the conservative student magazine Carolina Review for its March issue, called into question UNC-CH’s devotion to diversity.