Did You Know? Chinese Government Influence at North Carolina Colleges
Three universities in North Carolina host chapters of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, a group with ties to the Chinese government. According to a May article in Campus Reform,…
To De-Politicize Art Schools, Students Need to Fight Back
It has never been harder to teach artistic individualism in America. A religious devotion to the causes of social justice dominates the ideas of professors in the academy, and David…
NC State’s Quixotic Foreign Language Requirement
For decades, universities have required students to fulfill a foreign language requirement. However, some research has shown that two semesters of a foreign language appears to have no meaningful effect…
Who Is Responsible for the Loss of Faith in Science?
In an essay in the liberal UK broadsheet The Guardian, multiple authors chart out the most important task for the incoming Biden administration: to “restore the faith in science.” “Joe…
Dear Humanists: You Have Done That Yourself
Every time I read an op-ed piece from some English professor (and isn’t it always an English professor?) whining about the demise of the humanities, in The Chronicle of Higher Education or elsewhere,…
Students Aren’t Learning Life Skills; Colleges Need to Teach Them
When students think back to their college days, they may remember a philosophy class that made them question their life or an art class they thought would be easy, but…
Can the President Cancel Student Debt? Should He?
Many people and groups are pressuring Joe Biden to issue an executive order that would cancel some or all federal student debts shortly after he takes office. During the campaign,…
Speaking Out Against Censorship in Academia
As academia becomes ever-more entrenched in groupthink, it can be intimidating to be a lone voice that refuses to toe the ideological line. And for good reason: failure to at…
Why Do UNC Schools Spend Money on Diversity Training That Doesn’t Work?
Higher ed leaders love committees and training sessions. The technocratic mind that rules campus sees a problem and usually decides that the solution is more resources and education. Once the…
University Administrators’ Pandemic Power Grab
Universities’ profligate spending habits have caught up with them after substantial losses in student enrollments due to COVID-19. As undergraduate enrollment fell by 4.4 percent and students had fewer “on-campus…