A college endowment is a fund where an institution keeps its financial assets and donations and can invest that money for the college’s long-term stability. In North Carolina, the largest … Continue reading “Did You Know? The Biggest NC Endowments Keep Growing”
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from The Not-So-Great Society, published by the Heritage Foundation. Who cares that 20 students at the University of Wisconsin staged a protest in October … Continue reading “Conserve Free Speech on Campus”
There is general agreement among higher education observers and reformers that tuition and fees at public universities have increased at an unsustainable pace. It’s equally uncontroversial to note that financial … Continue reading “How Colleges Have Made Students Poorer and Undereducated”
When students are late making a monthly payment on their federal student loans, the loan becomes delinquent. And if they don’t make any payments for 270 days, most types of … Continue reading “Did You Know? Student Loan Defaults Are Most Common in West Virginia, New Mexico”
Nationwide, higher education enrollment has been trending down for several years. According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2019 was the eighth straight year of decline, with an overall drop … Continue reading “How Colleges Can Survive the Coming Enrollment Crash”
Universities may not target unpopular speech on campus often, but when they fail to protect it, the results are similar to officially silencing speech. A recent example of this lack … Continue reading “Students Tear Down Anti-Socialism Display at UNC Charlotte”
Until 2015, I believed that the Obama administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter, which called for universities to significantly broaden their interpretation of Title IX protections, was merely a way to address … Continue reading “The Totalitarian Impulse in the Title IX Racket”
The fact that conservatives are outnumbered on college campuses isn’t groundbreaking news. The amount of ink that’s been spilled recounting the left’s stronghold on the academy and the threats that … Continue reading “Outnumbered: Academia’s Tilted Ideological Landscape”
A recent cascade of investigative reporting on the shady business dealings of Jerry Falwell Jr. has raised some troubling questions about the controversial evangelical figure and his vision for Liberty … Continue reading “Liberty University: A Cautionary Tale”
Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts released its ruling in Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University. That means affirmative action—its application and limitations—is … Continue reading “Did You Know? Eight States Ban Racial Preferences in College Admissions”