What Is College For?
A recent speech highlighted what a college education should do and the corresponding importance of a core curriculum.
What Faculty Unions Do
Cary Nelson argues that faculty unions accomplish more than collective bargaining.
Adrift or Foundering?
Students are adrift because college was never intended for mass production of degrees.
Ten Top Books on Higher Education
Do you agree that these are the best books to understand what is going on in America’s colleges and universities?
Protecting the “Job Drivers”
Community colleges will try differential state funding, which gives more money to more technical classes.
How Does Your University Measure Up?
The Pope Center and ACTA examine the state of general education at colleges and universities in North Carolina.
Starving the Academic Beast
Huge state deficits and a changing of the political guard mean that public university systems must downsize. The Pope Center provides some criteria for deciding what to cut.
Spare the Community Colleges
North Carolina’s legislature should reverse a tradition of being less generous to the state’s community colleges during budget season.
Poll: What’s Wrong with Higher Education?
We want your opinion. What’s the biggest challenge to improving higher education?
Evangelists for Diversity
Offices of diversity are one thing the UNC system can do without.