Last month, Amanda Ripley, writing for The Atlantic, asked a good question: why does higher education in the United States cost significantly more than in every other OECD nation except … Continue reading “Answering the Perennial Question: Why Does College Cost So Much?”
The fight for gun rights on campus is often contentious and generally does not favor the Second Amendment. But in August, pro-gun advocates won a major battle when a federal … Continue reading “The Success of Concealed Carry at Texas Public Colleges”
The internet is filled with stories of how conservative student groups are mistreated on campus. Conservative and libertarian students often sound the alarm about hostile administrators, violent protesters, and unpleasant … Continue reading “How Comfortable Do Conservatives Feel on Campus?”
On November 7, 2006, Michigan voters passed Proposition 2, a measure that banned the use of racial preferences throughout state government and state universities. The next day, University of Michigan … Continue reading “Exposing the Harms of the ‘Diversity Delusion’”
Free speech on campus has become a point of concern for many. News reports describe speakers being disinvited from campus or shouted down. Events such as students being arrested for giving … Continue reading “Have North Carolina Colleges Improved Their Free Speech Protections?”
Kentuckians were forced to consider potential problems with intercollegiate athletics when both the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky were implicated in the recent FBI probe into possibly … Continue reading “Gaming the System: How Kentucky Spends Funding for Students on Athletics”
In recent years, the media has given us dire warnings about the “crisis of the humanities.” In article after article, one reads about falling enrollments in college English departments and … Continue reading “Why Humanities Programs Suffer as the Humanities Themselves Do Great”
Colleges are using a new tool with the frightening potential to shut down open dialogue. They go by the benign-sounding name of “bias response teams.” Bias response teams monitor what … Continue reading “A New Campus Invention for Policing Speech”
No one can accuse Education Secretary Betsy DeVos of inaction. Just within the past few weeks, her Department of Education announced the overhaul of two major Obama-era regulations. The next … Continue reading “The Innovation Dilemma Facing Betsy DeVos”
The partnership between America and its colleges and universities is broken. Americans are disappointed with higher education. A majority of Americans (57 percent) now say higher education fails to provide … Continue reading “Fixing the Divide Between the Public and Higher Ed”