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.

Apr 20, 2010 · Jane S. Shaw

The Iceman Cometh

One theory suggests that higher education institutions will experience the fate of industrial dinosaurs.

Apr 18, 2010 · Liz Wieland

Professors Are Your Friends

By having the courage to ask for help, one student learned that faculty are eager to aid undergraduates.

Apr 15, 2010 · Jay Schalin

A Healthy University Needs Surgical Cuts

Legislative budget cuts can improve the University of North Carolina system by forcing sensible cuts to extravagant programs.

Apr 14, 2010 · George Leef

The Bologna Process: Not About Making Sausage

But will it really improve higher education in Europe?

Apr 11, 2010 · Jay Schalin

Ed Schools, Leave Those Teachers Alone!

A new study by the University of North Carolina could lead to major reform of education schools.

Apr 9, 2010 · Mary Grabar

How to Promote “Social Justice”

An Atlanta conference for teachers reveals that educators these days want to lead children to particular views of social justice rather than educate them.

Apr 6, 2010 · Martin Morse Wooster

A Weak Defense of an Obsolete Idea

A new book defending affirmative action fails on many levels.

Apr 4, 2010 · Max Borders

Bread-and-Circus Politics

The UNC School of the Arts is costing taxpayers a lot of money while serving mostly special interests.

Apr 1, 2010 · Jan Levine

Don’t Blame Us!

An expert in legal writing responds to Charles Rounds’ critique of law schools—and throws in some critiques of his own.

· Charles Rounds Jr.

Trivializing Law School

A course in writing can’t make up for law schools’ purging of essential legal doctrine.