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.



UNC Budget Holds Its Own

The governor’s proposed biennium budget deals only a mild blow to blow the university system and slightly expands community college funding.



Term Limits for Tenure

Some professors say it causes inefficiencies, inhibits innovations, and stifles the very freedom of expression it was supposed to defend.



Hollow at the Core

So-called improvements to N.C. State’s general education curriculum permit students to avoid an education instead of getting one.