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Can We Do Anything About “Party Schools”?
A sociologist’s book explores the disturbing party culture at her university but sees no real solution.
My Pangs of Conscience
A professor ruminates on the difficulties of grading.
Backstage at the Admissions Office
A surprisingly critical article by an “application reader” makes it into the New York Times.
Partial Remedy
Even after a decade of decline in remedial education at UNC, problems remain.
Remediation: Still a Mystery
A Pope Center review of remedial education in the UNC system reveals that no one knows if it is helping the students who take it.
Equalizing Outcomes Through Program Proliferation
The UNC system hopes to improve graduation rates by expanding expensive “handholding” programs for students who are not ready for college-level work.
College isn’t ‘more important than ever,’ despite the Lumina Foundation study
Despite the Lumina Foundation’s jeremiad over the “inaccessibility” of higher education hindering the goal of making college available to all citizens, other research indicates that such a goal itself is not socially optimal.
Racial Preferences, Grade Inflation Hurt Education, Students Say
While most students favor ethnic diversity on campus, they oppose compromising fairness and high standards to achieve it, according to new survey by Zogby International. The study, commissioned by the New York-based Foundation for Academic Standards and Tradition (FAST), interviewed 1,004 randomly selected college students nationwide.