Academics

Future leaders in business, government, and civil society need more than just job skills. The following articles defend the value of liberal education, with a focus on academic quality and rigor, fundamental knowledge, and the ideas that have shaped Western Civilization. They also scrutinize academic programs that have departed from these ideals in the name of progressive ideology.


Deconstructing Free Assembly

Universities are taking advantage of a 2010 Supreme Court ruling to eliminate student organizations that don’t conform to political correctness.





Real Education

A student finds that her high school expectations of college don’t quite match the real thing.



Are Donors Dangerous?

Instead of threatening academic freedom or integrity, outside philanthropists usually expand and enrich college dialogue.


Board Games

North Carolina’s new State Board of Proprietary Schools is assuming licensing authority over for-profit schools from the community college system.