The Trouble with Intellectuals
Academic elites’ knowledge, while extensive, is too limited to justify their telling the rest of us what we must do.
Can Summer Reading Save the Planet?
“No Impact Man” Speaks at UNCW about going off the grid.
For-profit Colleges Aren’t Villains
Study shows that the profit motive works in education just as it does elsewhere.
MBA: Go Away or Here to Stay?
If the college degree is oversold, the MBA (Master of Business Administration) may be the pets.com of higher education.
Does Anyone Care What They Study?
Columbia has a good core curriculum, Harvard a weak one, and many schools none at all.
Administrative Costs Mushrooming
Rapidly rising numbers of and expense for administrators explain much of the rising cost of college education.
North Carolina’s For-Profit Challenge
UNC’s role in licensing nonpublic colleges (especially for-profits) may pose a conflict of interest.
In Need of a Sober Assessment
Prescription drug abuse is on the rise among college students, but it would be inaccurate to say “everybody’s doing it,” because they aren’t.
Freshman Comp, Then and Now
How the standard freshman writing course went from boot camp to a waste of time.
A Rule Made to Be Broken
Barely a month after the UNC system ignored its own self-imposed tuition cap, it is proposing another one.