Princeton Prof Thinks Free Speech Is in Serious Trouble
After months of clashes with angry students, the university decided that the young professor it hired had to go. From the day of his first class on campus, protesters had…
No Harm, No Foul in UNC Sports Scandal Course Dispute
The Raleigh News & Observer recently published a contentious exchange between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s history professor Jay Smith and vice chancellor of communications Joel Curran…
What Can We Do About Degree Inflation?
In his recent book The Case Against Education, Professor Bryan Caplan argues that most Americans derive little benefit from their years of schooling in terms of skill and knowledge. What…
How Much of an Effect Do University Writing Programs Have?
The list of top-rated college writing programs is dominated by private institutions. But North Carolina State University is one of only a few public universities to break through. It is…
Do Millennials Really Love Socialism?
The millennial generation is taking a lot of heat lately, with even some of its members a bit shame-faced about their values, habits, and much else. Most troubling to the economically literate…
Six Ideas to De-Politicize the American Campus
The politicization of higher education is a huge societal problem. Even though there is an overwhelming consensus that universities’ ultimate purpose should be a search for the truth and that…
Feminist Activism Masquerading as Education
The supposedly academic discipline of Women’s Studies is “an arm of the women’s movement,” according to philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers. And that movement is political; political activism is at least…
The Curious Case of So-Called ‘Higher Education Deserts’
Students in the United States have unprecedented options for postsecondary education: from brick-and-mortar liberal arts institutions and research-intensive doctoral universities to dual-enrollment high schools and online-only degree programs. Entrepreneurs are…
Defining Faculty Roles: In Defense of the Activist-Scholar
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series on faculty roles in higher education. Part I by Fabio Rojas is here and Part II by Jay Schalin is…
What Future Journalists Should Know About Journalism School
It might have been drilled into your head from a young age that the only way to be successful in life is to get a college degree. You might have…