Saving Students from Fluff
A new Pope Center survey guides students through the new “gen ed” curriculum at N. C. State.
Is Teaching a Common American Identity Indoctrination?
A Pope Center writer responds to a reader who equated his use of “common cultural identity” with left-wing indoctrination.
Only Rubber-Stamps and Jellyfish Need Apply
Dartmouth’s high-handed dismissal of Todd Zywicki from the Board of Trustees constitutes an abuse of authority worthy of the old Soviet Politburo.
No Time to Subsidize Silliness
UNC’s leadership should regard the budgetary process in lean times as a reason to cut waste.
I Pledge Allegiance, To the Diversity…
Virginia Tech has proposed guidelines mandating attitudes toward diversity that stifle academic freedom.
Grading, the Old-Fashioned Way
A math professor grades according to students’ mastery of the material, not on their level of effort.
Minority Students and Research Universities:
There is nothing to be gained and quite a bit to be lost if we follow preferential policies that deliberately trump merit with group classifications.
Duke University on Race
Speakers at a conference believe that racism is still alive, but is this just an academic elite speaking?
Cheating is So Much Easier
For-profit “essay mills” cater to lazy and dishonest students.
Obama Fudges Some Figures
A careful look at Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that most of the jobs in the fastest-growing occupations don’t require any college education.