The Last Refuge of Pure Meritocracy
Racial consideration for college admissions hearkens back to Grutter v. Bollinger, the landmark decision by the Supreme Court in 2003. It held that affirmative action programs can pass muster as…
Police Education Is Not Police Training: Virtue Signaling Is Not the Road to Improvement
In the wake of George Floyd’s death, a number of colleges have cut back their interactions with local police departments and are redesigning their law enforcement programs. The University of…
America Wants Its Public Colleges Back and The Chronicle Isn’t Happy About It
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released a report decrying the politicization of public higher education governance, entitled The New Order: How the Nation’s Partisan Divisions Consumed Public-College Boards and…
Free Speech and Liberal Education–Two Endangered Pillars of Society
Fifteen years ago, American higher education was beset with serious problems, especially rising costs, politicization of the curriculum, the mania over diversity, and falling academic standards. At that time, however,…
Using ‘Transparency’ to Obscure: The Daily Tar Heel and UNC’s Title IX Records
“Sunlight,” Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote, “is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” Few aspects of the contemporary academy more need enhanced sunlight…
How Many Students Are Hospitalized with COVID-19? NC Colleges Don’t Know
For college campuses across North Carolina, the fall ushered in a less-than-ideal reality. The coronavirus, although under greater control than in the spring, was—and is—widely circulating. Within the first few…
A Book with a Kernel of Truth—and a Grain Silo of Nonsense
Every so often, a leftist thinker breaks free from the orthodoxy to point out that policies favored by “progressives” can have adverse consequences. When that happens, it’s worth paying attention.…
Saving a Struggling College Starts with the Board
Before the COVID-19 pandemic walloped our colleges and universities, higher education had been facing threats to existing business models for years. A great deal has been written the past few…
Censoring a Thousand Words: Universities Must Cease Punishing Students for Their Online Pictures
In 1980, Apple founder Steve Jobs called the computer “a bicycle for our minds.” Today, the advent of smartphones gives individuals the power to share images instantaneously with the rest…
It’s Time to Start a New University
Two viruses—one biological, the other ideological—have delivered a mortal blow to American higher education. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of colleges and universities will soon be wiped out by an unprecedented combination…