“Accommodation Nation” in the UNC System
Late last year, the Atlantic’s Rose Horowitch penned a widely shared essay on campus “disability accommodations,” the practice whereby students with learning disorders such as ADHD receive extra time on…
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Growth Beyond the Classroom—A Decade of Staffing and Spending in the UNC System
Growth Beyond the Classroom—A Decade of Staffing and Spending in the UNC System analyzes staffing and salary expenditure trends across the University of North Carolina (UNC) System from 2015-16 through…
Competition Is Helping to Bring Affordability, Efficiency Back to Higher Ed
As higher education has become increasingly competitive in recent years, many colleges have had to find creative ways to maintain their enrollment figures and distinguish themselves in the market. For…
Universities Are Churning Out the Next Generation of Higher Ed Bureaucrats
The number of non-academic administrators at colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, far outpacing the growth in students and faculty. According to a report…
The New College Cheating: Why Not Buy Your Degree?
Like hospital “superbugs” that grow increasingly deadly and difficult to kill, cheating by college students keeps morphing into new and more virulent forms. Notes hidden away under a shirt cuff…
Undermatch, Overmatch, Mismatch
Students often make college decisions that are far from the best, but the federal government is apt to make matters worse.