Women’s Agenda Seeks Your Money
In March a group of about 50 women’s rights activists from the North Carolina mountains plans to present state legislators with a “new” agenda on the needs of women in the state.
Articles by Martin Center Staff
Poll results show college students are learning ‘do your own thing’ ethics
College students are being taught to behave unethically in today’s workplace despite their own personal beliefs, according to a report released July 23 by the National Association of Scholars.
UNC-Wilmington feminists abort free speech
When a new Women’s Resource Center was established at my university (UNC-Wilmington), I was concerned that it would serve as more of a resource for feminist professors than for female students. I also suspected that the center would try to advance a “pro-choice” agenda with little tolerance for the views of pro-life advocates.
UNCW denies chilling free speech after inspecting professor
Controversy continues to swirl around what the University of North Carolina at Wilmington did to a professor for chiding a student’s mass-distributed e-mail as “bad speech.” As well as around what UNCW didn’t do.
Tuition and fees grow faster at UNC schools, remain among lowest nationally
Tuition increases at the 16 campuses in the University of North Carolina have upset students and parents. A Pope Center look at the issue found that the average increase this year for in-state students in tuition and fees at a UNC school was greater than the average increase nationally. Nevertheless, tuition and fees at UNC schools are still lower than the regional and U.S. averages.
Changes (and rumors of changes) to racial preferences nationwide
The face of racial preferences, under the misnomer “affirmative action,” is changing in several places nationwide.
Leftists blast report urging colleges to teach American history and principles
A report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni has the establishment-left wing of academe up in arms. “Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It” builds on the fact that “academe is the only sector of American society that is distinctly divided in its response” to the terrorist attacks on America to reiterate (not to mention, underscore) the organization’s call for trustees, donors and alumni to seek change in their institutions of higher education.
Harsh critic of UNC-Chapel Hill to speak in Chapel Hill, Raleigh
Leftist-radical-turned-conservative-activist David Horowitz will be speaking in Raleigh and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday, Nov. 28. Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has been sharply critical of leftists in higher education prior to and following Sept. 11, and he has been especially critical of UNC-CH.
Former Black Panther leader regales Duke University students
As America’s war on terrorists abroad continues successfully, a former head of a domestic terrorist organization spoke at Duke University to an apparently receptive crowd.
Students fight back against anti-war sentiment on campus
North Carolina university students are beginning to join the intellectual battle on campuses over the U.S. war on terrorism.