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.

May 10, 2004 · Shannon Blosser

Albright, Powell highlight N.C.graduation speakers

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.

· Shannon Blosser

Forum discusses academic freedom

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.

Apr 26, 2004 · Jon Sanders

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

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!

Apr 22, 2004 · George Leef

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

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

Apr 15, 2004 · Jon Sanders

Efforts to stifle Carolina Students for Life aborted

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.

Apr 9, 2004 · Jon Sanders

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

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.

Apr 7, 2004 · Jon Sanders

Thought Police Steal a Victory from UNC-Chapel Hill

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?

Mar 11, 2004 · Jon Sanders

Report cites campus ignorance of constitutional protection of religious liberty

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.

Mar 5, 2004 · Jon Sanders

Comedy, tragedy and diversity — here at the base of the slope

The diversity movement was supposed to promote social harmony, but instead it has furthered racialist thinking, heightened identity-group balkanization, increased resentment, and nurtured a preposterous touchiness and sensitivity to perceived slights. It has also fostered a new generation ever seeking newer ways to divide people. The new diversity extremists are now protesting each other when they fail to recognize the most recently identified groups of the exponentially expanding diversity pantheon. It’s a practice you might call More-Sensitive-Than-Thou.

Mar 1, 2004 · Jon Sanders

Students: Tuition increases mean … we pay more!

UNC schools are discussing raising tuition again, some schools by up to $300. For many UNC students, it is their first taste of hardship, and for many parents of UNC students, it could mean their last gasp at shielding their fledglings from hardship. “I may have to give up flying home,” says Weinlaud. “And if I drive to Florida for Spring Break, that’ll cut out two whole days of partying. It’s not fair!”