Assessing Trump’s Higher-Ed Orders
These are bad times to be a recalcitrant Trump-hating college administrator. In his first nine-and-a-half days in office, the 47th president has signed numerous executive orders with the potential to…
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The Politics of Higher-Education Accreditation
Accreditors often claim to be neutral arbiters who merely measure whether accredited universities meet their own standards. Yet a not-so-deep dive into actual accreditation standards reveals a stacked deck, whereby…
Georgia Unplugs the Bias Machine
People often ask me how, as an outspoken conservative professor at a large state university, I can get away with some of the things I say on social media and…
Is the “Covid Cohort” Less Woke?
Students who came to college in the fall of 2024 are the first class that spent the entirety of their high-school years in a pandemic-shaped world. These students are called…
“Majority Groups” Are Seizing Anti-Discrimination Law
We are witnessing a sea change around DEI, “wokeness,” political correctness, and the like. For now, the anti-woke and anti-DEI forces have the upper hand. A big question looms in…
North Carolina Governor’s School Is Miseducating Elite Students
The North Carolina Governor’s School (GS) was established in 1963. The program was the first of its kind in the nation: a residential summer program for the state’s most academically…
Heritage Foundation’s College Ratings Should Be Welcomed to the Field
In September, the Heritage Foundation launched an interactive, web-based guide to help students “Choose College with Confidence.” It currently grants nearly 300 colleges and universities one of three designations: “great…
Racial Discrimination at the University of South Carolina
For several years, the National Association of Scholars (NAS), where I work, has monitored the rise of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) in higher education. DEI entered the mainstream somewhere…
UNC’s Journalism School Can’t Serve Two Masters
The UNC-Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media finds itself in a precarious position. It’s impossible to serve two masters, yet, in this calendar year alone, the school has…
How to Find an Authentic Christian College
Things should be what they are, in higher education as elsewhere. Colleges advertising a liberal-arts curriculum should immerse their students in literature, history, and philosophy. STEM giants such as Georgia…