If We Can’t Repeal the Higher Education Act, Let’s Improve It
The United States got along nicely for its first 176 years without any federal legislation on higher education. (A good reason why there was no such legislation is the absence…
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Bias Response Teams Chill Free Speech and Miseducate Students
In their Atlantic article, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukainoff identified a troubling development on American campuses. They wrote, “A movement is arising, undirected and…
The University of Chicago’s Support for Free Speech Sparks Opposition
Last month, just before the new academic year began, the University of Chicago’s dean of students, John Ellison, sent a letter (reproduced in this piece) to all incoming students. It…
NC State Continues to Defend Unconstitutional Policy
Imagine a college student who has just formed a student group. In order to generate interest in this group, the student goes to the student union and passes out flyers…
NLRB’s pro-union ruling attacks private higher education
American labor unions are in serious decline and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has become nothing more than a legal enforcer for panicked union bosses. A recent example is the December 2014 decision in Pacific Lutheran University that may force more private-sector higher education faculty to accept unionism if they want to work.
Meet the mid-level bureaucrats who impose speech codes on America’s universities
Of all the many ideas that constitute our civilization, none is more central or important than the norms of free inquiry. The last place one should entrust these norms for safekeeping and propagation is to a bureaucracy that is dedicated to peace and quiet. Yet today, it is they, not the faculty, who are the true enemies of free speech on campus.
Who’s naughty? Who’s nice? We help Santa scrutinize higher education
This year has been an eventful one for higher education in general and for North Carolina specifically. As Santa checks his list, the Pope Center has a few suggestions as to who’s been naughty and nice this year.
First Amendment Day at Chapel Hill stirs debate about “trigger warnings”
First Amendment Day at Chapel Hill stirs debate about “trigger warnings”
Another take on Salaita: not an abridgment of academic freedom, but a failure to uphold academic standards
Another take on Salaita: not an abridgment of academic freedom, but a failure to uphold academic standards
The Salaita case: when academic freedom collides with freedom of contract
The Salaita case: when academic freedom collides with freedom of contract