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.

Jan 30, 2011 · Troy Camplin

The Fading Hope of Interdisciplinary Studies

A university program that should integrate all academic knowledge doesn’t live up to its own weak standards.

Jan 27, 2011 · Michelle Vachris

“Capitalism, American Style” at Christopher Newport University

An American Studies program at a public college in Virginia sets itself apart by focusing on our capitalist economic system and the ideas behind it.

Jan 25, 2011 · George Leef

The Secret Is Out About Law Schools

Law schools are reluctant to grapple with the oversupply problem.

Jan 23, 2011 · Kurt Rotthoff

Yes, You Can Teach about Liberty

Faculty members can take innovative paths in designing courses, with new formats and intellectually enriching content.

Jan 20, 2011 · Jay Schalin

Liberating Chapel Hill

Cutting UNC’s flagship campus loose from the system will help solve some major problems with little negative impact.

Jan 18, 2011 · John Rosenberg

When Racial Preferences Fell at UC

A one-sided book treats California’s experience after Prop. 209 as a disaster, while citing figures that show it was not.

Jan 16, 2011 · Troy Camplin

Freshman Composition and the Sonnet

One instructor uses a tool largely unfamiliar to college freshmen, the Shakespearean sonnet.

Jan 13, 2011 · Jay Schalin

Just Another Radical Obama Appointee

Duke professor Cathy Davidson, nominated for the National Council on the Humanities, is another in a long line of highly questionable Obama appointees.

Jan 11, 2011 · George Leef

Nurturing the Dumbest Generation

The progressive theory pushed in education schools may explain why high school students read easy books.

Jan 10, 2011 · Jenna A. Robinson

Remediation: Still a Mystery

A Pope Center review of remedial education in the UNC system reveals that no one knows if it is helping the students who take it.