Free Speech-less
A new Pope Center report reveals that the majority of colleges in North Carolina inhibit free speech.
Math Non-Majors, Arise!
Demand courses that explore the ideas inherent in mathematics, not just the skills of computation.
Forget U.
Tradition depends on memory, but modern culture depends on forgetting.
Why Are Conservatives Rare on College Faculties?
Seven professors (Munger, Bean, Folsom, Bauerlein, Grabar, Anderson, Bertonneau) comment on a controversial theory.
What Are Faculty Paid, and Why?
The Pope Center’s effort to make the UNC system more transparent to the public reveals a lot but raises more questions.
Literacy Lost
University faculty are finally noticing that college students don’t read very well, but Neil Postman and Jacques Ellul saw it years ago.
Danny Glover Plays Chapel Hill
The Hollywood gadfly brought his unique brand of radical politics to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Martin Luther King celebration.
Graduation Blues
The debate over low graduation rates is shaping up like an old Miller Lite commercial–one side shouts, “more money!” and the other shouts, “higher admissions standards!”
Can’t Read, Can’t Watch, Can’t Comprehend
Today’s post-literate students don’t read movies any better than they read books.
Justice O’Connor Rethinks Her Grutter Decision
But will a future Court pay any more attention to evidence about diversity than hers did?