Where Did ‘Cancel Culture’ Come From?
“People that work at universities and newspapers should be the most intellectually free people in the world.” Few would vocally disagree with these words recently said by former New York…
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Using ‘Transparency’ to Obscure: The Daily Tar Heel and UNC’s Title IX Records
“Sunlight,” Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote, “is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” Few aspects of the contemporary academy more need enhanced sunlight…
Did You Know? Grad School Can Affect Whether Students Take a Class Pass/Fail
Since the pandemic, many colleges have gone from giving letter grades to offering students a pass/fail grading option for their courses. Letter grades become a passing (P), which gives students…
Without Lab Time or Facilities, Students Get Lower-Quality Education
In spring 2020, when universities went online due to COVID-19, few of them expected to be online in the fall as well. After a failed reopening of schools, courses again…
How Many Students Are Hospitalized with COVID-19? NC Colleges Don’t Know
For college campuses across North Carolina, the fall ushered in a less-than-ideal reality. The coronavirus, although under greater control than in the spring, was—and is—widely circulating. Within the first few…
Did You Know? No Tuition Refund, But a Tuition Freeze for UNC Schools
The abrupt switch to online classes was shocking for tens of thousands of students and professors across the country. Universities were then awash in refund demands from students and their…
Did You Know? Students Are Clueless About History
Colleges and universities across the country don’t require students to study history. Although students at many colleges are “technically” required to take a history course to fulfill their general education…
When Student Debt Is A Good Thing (And When It’s Not)
Student debt has a bad reputation. It’s under attack from the left, which sees debt as a ball and chain that ruins the lives of young people who had the…
Did You Know? 13 UNC Entities Push Out Diversity Statements
After the killing of George Floyd and the protests that followed, several departments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have released statements on their intention to fight…
In Reopening, UNC Leaders Failed Their Students
Though college leaders had the summer to plan for students to return to campus, the fall 2020 semester has arrived as a bust. After just two weeks, four University of…