College: More than Just a Four-Year Party
…an understanding of the past, and critical thinking skills. Here are a few guidelines to help you achieve both job and personal goals: First, study something you love. You’re more…
…an understanding of the past, and critical thinking skills. Here are a few guidelines to help you achieve both job and personal goals: First, study something you love. You’re more…
…the Committee five years ago, the test has only grown more unpopular, as you may expect. In fact, it’s doomed. Throughout my involvement, I admired the design of the test…
…an innovator in developing outcome-based rankings. Its 2021 analysis of both colleges and individual programs attempts to set an ROI (return-on-investment) for each course of study. FREOPP’s study helpfully points…
In a recent article for the Pope Center, I looked at the latest academic-athletic scandal at UNC-Chapel Hill in light of athletes’ academic preparation. Various reformers have tried to end…
…Greg Murphy introduced federal legislation aimed at combating this censorship and protecting free speech rights at colleges and universities. The bill, the Campus Free Speech and Restoration Act, seeks to…
…Greek philosophy and Christian civilization. Unmoored from this moral context, the values of free inquiry and open dialogue lose their persuasive force. In the end, even though Soave provides a…
…will push and inspire and frighten the others to work harder and learn more. Peer pressure will raise the intellectual bar. If more than half the kids on a dorm…
…likely damages teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill. And their larger ambitions, if successful, will cripple American higher education. Even more serious, Jack and Sathy’s assault on rigor will remove the very…
…are more free than others. And there’s a third lesson in the offing, I believe. That lesson will be for President Lovell and the Marquette administration. If McAdams is indeed…
…pay off their student loans as easily as students who study engineering or business. As Americans debate policy solutions such as student loan forgiveness or “free college” that will simply…