UNC Leaders Should Keep a Closer Eye on Underperforming Degree Programs
An unlikely champion of more university oversight emerged at a recent University of North Carolina system Board of Governors (BOG) meeting. During a discussion about the board’s long-term strategic goals…
College Faculties Are Mostly Leftist and Becoming More So
A paper recently published in Econ Journal Watch, “Faculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology,” shows that something almost everyone believes to be true—that college faculties in the…
Colleges Are Promoting Psychological Frailty and We Should All Be Concerned
“And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.” – Thomas Wayne, Batman Begins Administrators at the University of Florida recently notified students that a 24-hour…
States Should Work to Ameliorate Bad Federal Student Loan Policies
Many experts believe that the United States is facing a student loan crisis. Total student loan debt now exceeds $1.3 billion—more than total credit card debt for the country. And…
Conflicting Visions, Part II: Should Universities Accept Outside Funding for Free Market Centers?
Editor’s note: This week the Pope Center addresses a controversial issue that has arisen at dozens of American colleges and universities—whether outside funding for free market programs and centers undermines…
Conflicting Visions, Part I: Should Universities Accept Outside Funding for Free Market Centers?
Editor’s note: This week the Pope Center addresses a controversial issue that has arisen at dozens of American colleges and universities—whether outside funding for free market programs and centers undermines…
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Center for Civil Rights Continues Leftist Agenda Unabated
In February 2015, the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors (BOG) concluded an extensive review of the 237 academic centers and institutes housed across the 16 UNC campuses.…
The Modern University’s Greatest Failing
In 2006, I clipped a “Non Sequitur” cartoon that captured perfectly the mystique that surrounds our nation’s universities. The cartoon pictured a professor ensconced in a cubicle surrounded by an…
Will This New College Ranking System Upend the Status Quo?
Higher education reformers have long argued that colleges’ admissions selectivity reveals little about their educational quality and how well they prepare students for the workforce and civic life. The U.S.…
The High Cost of Cultural Amnesia
Famed literary critic George Steiner once said that cultural knowledge allows one to “resist” and that “no one can make a zombie of you if you carry [cultural knowledge] inside…