Do North Carolina Students Have Freedom of Speech?

The report examines the speech, assembly and religious protections for students and faculty at North Carolina’s universities–both public and private. Using the speech code rating system from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the Pope Center found that none of North Carolina’s universities received a “green light.”







Literacy Lost

University faculty are finally noticing that college students don’t read very well, but Neil Postman and Jacques Ellul saw it years ago.



Graduation Blues

The debate over low graduation rates is shaping up like an old Miller Lite commercial–one side shouts, “more money!” and the other shouts, “higher admissions standards!”