Raise Our Taxes, Please
The largest professors’ association in North Carolina asks the legislature for progressive tax increases to address the state’s budget deficit.
Just Say No…to a Business Degree
An educational entrepreneur warns parents against advising their children to major in business.
Educational Luddites Unite! Save the Buggy-whip Manufacturers!
An educational entrepreneur says academia is hanging on to a failed, obsolete ideology while entrepreneurial solutions are revolutionizing the world.
The Privileged Class
The commotion about the university job of a former North Carolina governor’s wife reveals a larger pattern of undue influence throughout the UNC system.
In Defense of Academic Publishing
A political scientist argues that liberal arts faculty should be role models, and that means conducting research.
Adventures in Absurdity
A guy goes back to school in his early forties and finds that academia is sometimes just plain weird.
A New Law of Averages at Princeton
The Ivy League school’s reintroduction of tough grading standards could change the campus culture for the better.
“Endowment Transparency”
No, students do not have a right to know how Duke invests its funds.
Growing Up: Better Late Than Never!
A late-blooming student learns the real facts of life after he starts a family–that life is hard without an education.
Budget Crisis Barely Slows UNC Agenda
Despite a severe drop in state revenues, the UNC system is still making rapid changes.