Law Schools Guard Entry to the Profession and Should Teach Virtue
Law school faculties hold a sacred trust. We guard the outermost portals into the legal profession, a group that wields powers to shape society in profound and lasting ways. Several…
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Study Only What You Want? Not If You Want to Be Successful
Recently, a general education course at UNC-Chapel Hill, “Big-Time College Sports,” was canceled. This sparked controversy after the course’s professor, Jay Smith, argued that the class, which he had taught…
Making Legal Education Great Again
Legal education has become a surprisingly regular topic of news media for several years now. Most of this commentary has focused on enrollment and matriculation problems, bar passage rates, accreditation…
A New College Makes the (ACTA) Grade
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) advises trustees and alumni about higher education issues, identifies “oases of [educational] excellence,” and examines graduation requirements at various colleges to answer…
Is the college diploma a sign of advanced skills or just a screening technique?
Is the college diploma a sign of advanced skills or just a screening technique?
Here is how academics ruined the critical thinking movement
Here is how academics ruined the critical thinking movement
Is a syllabus a rigid contract or an organic conversation?
Is a syllabus a rigid contract or an organic conversation?
I Thought I’d Get an Elite Education
Unfortunately, the university I attended fell far short of my hopes and expectations.
Study: UNC’s general-education core is weak
RALEIGH – General-education requirements at 11 University of North Carolina institutions are weak, according to a new study commissioned by the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. UNC students are seven times more likely to be required to take a cultural diversity course than they are to study a foreign language, unlikely to be required to study Western history or civilization or even introductory literature, and not required at all to study United States history.
Inquiry #16: General Education Requirements at NC Public Universities: What Do Students Get in the Core Curriculum?
Colleges and universities ought to provide their students with a well-rounded education that will equip them for good citizenship and a productive life. Historically, many schools have done that by establishing a core curriculum of courses covering the fields of knowledge that an educated person should be familiar with: American history, the classics of our literature, natural science and mathematics, logic, fine arts, and the social sciences. Throughout the UNC system, few schools insist that their students take courses that would be regarded as crucial components of a sound education.