Nebraska Should Follow Through
In August 2017, a professor and a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln protested students who were recruiting for the conservative student organization Turning Point USA. A video…
Why I Started A Free-Speech Magazine at Duke
At America’s elite universities, we are told that pursuing free inquiry and civil discourse is a fundamental value. Administrators champion “grand” initiatives such as the Duke Provost’s Initiative on Free…
Who Owns Southern Methodist University?
How much is an authentic religious identity worth? For Southern Methodist University, a private institution in Dallas with over 12,000 students and a $2.2-billion endowment, the answer appears to be…
The Great Un-Wokening Meets the Campus Resistance
Many of America’s large corporations are beating a retreat from their former commitments to saving the planet from catastrophic climate change. They are also reassessing their earnest allegiance to DEI…
Is Standardized Testing Good or Bad?
Should colleges and universities—especially those regarded as elite—use the scores students earned on standardized tests in making admissions decisions? That has been a heated subject of debate for several decades.…
Regulatory Barriers to OPMs Are Stifling Innovation
Across the country, colleges and universities face fierce competition for students and pressure to keep costs low. One way to lower costs is to move some course offerings online. Online…
How Humanities Professors Got Marginalized
In any discussion of the state of the humanities, the first fact is a numerical one. In School Year 2021-22, while a little more than two million people earned bachelors’…
UNC Institutions Should End Discriminatory Faculty Hiring
Recent investigative reporting revealed that five UNC schools participated in a federal program explicitly created to hire faculty based on race. UNC should take steps to end these partnerships as…
End the Unjust Stratification of Accreditors
Practically everyone knows of a student who had to take virtually the same class twice—and pay for it twice—because his college wouldn’t accept perfectly good transfer credits from another institution.…
The Classroom Must Change
Despite strong market signals that they will continue to fail financially and/or fall short of achieving their missions, few U.S. universities have tried grading reform as a means of attracting…