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.

Legislators review proposed education budget

May 12, 2004 · Shannon Blosser

RALEIGH – Criticism of proposed cuts in community college funding was among the topics addressed by legislators during a meeting Wednesday on adjustments to the state’s education spending plans.

Legislators also addressed concerns regarding a proposed $27 million cut to the University of North Carolina system budget. The UNC system did receiving funding increases in the proposed budget, including $64 million due to increased enrollment.

Budget adjustment proposal released

May 11, 2004 · Shannon Blosser

Higher education spending in North Carolina would increase by nearly $112 million, according to budget figures presented during a Joint Appropriations Committee meeting May 11 at the Legislative Office Building.

Albright, Powell highlight N.C.graduation speakers

May 10, 2004 · Shannon Blosser

With the ongoing War on Terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, graduates at some area colleges will hear, first hand, from two individuals who have been involved in policy decisions regarding Iraq and the Middle East.

Forum discusses academic freedom

· Shannon Blosser

North Carolina is not the only state where campus bias is a concern. That was evident during a forum held Saturday at Robert “Whit” Whitfield’s campaign headquarters for the 4th District House of Representatives seat. That seat is currently held by Rep. David Price, D-N.C.

UNC gays define ‘perversion’: Codes that protect white, heterosexual males, too

Apr 26, 2004 · Jon Sanders

RALEIGH— Homosexual activists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are circulating a petition to stop “a perversion of anti-discrimination codes.” The perversion? Such codes might actually be used to protect a “white, heterosexual, [C]hristian male,” too. Egad!

Forget ‘Economic Diversity,’ Let’s Hit the Books Instead

Apr 22, 2004 · George Leef

Teaching students takes a backseat to universities’ new emphasis on “economic diversity.”

Efforts to stifle Carolina Students for Life aborted

Apr 15, 2004 · Jon Sanders

The pro-life UNC-CH student group Carolina Students for Life are finally included in the Carolina Women’s Center’s web site and programming. However, the group was excluded for the second year from Women’s Week at the university.

The Great Pope Center Conspiracy Laid Bare for All the World to See

Apr 9, 2004 · Jon Sanders

Call off the dogs, leftist media — your relentless interrogation has broken us. We admit it. It really is just a big conspiracy. We’re prepared to spill all. This is our confession.

Thought Police Steal a Victory from UNC-Chapel Hill

Apr 7, 2004 · Jon Sanders

Free speech had already carried the day when a UNC-Chapel Hill instructor attacked a student by name in a classwide email. So why get the feds involved?

Report cites campus ignorance of constitutional protection of religious liberty

Mar 11, 2004 · Jon Sanders

College students and administrators don’t know that the First Amendment protects religious liberty, according to survey results published in a report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.