In their Atlantic article, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukainoff identified a troubling development on American campuses. They wrote, “A movement is arising, undirected and … Continue reading “Bias Response Teams Chill Free Speech and Miseducate Students”
In 2015, Time magazine reported that there had been 23 shootings on college and university campuses that year, including an attack at a community college in Oregon that claimed 10 … Continue reading “Evidence, Not Emotion, Should Guide the Campus Concealed Carry Debate”
Since 2010, the UNC system’s Board of Governors has become somewhat more conservative and more interested in serious educational reforms. Members of the Board have professed interest in decreasing costs, … Continue reading “Five Questions to Ask Future UNC Board Members”
Nowhere is the adage “personnel is policy” truer than in the federal education bureaucracy. With nothing more than a few Dear Colleague letters meant to provide “guidance” to nearly all … Continue reading “Sweeping Change at the Office for Civil Rights Is Imperative”
Assuming that Betsy DeVos, the new secretary of education, has sufficient commitment and stamina, she will change how her department addresses K-12 education. Her support of school choice through charter … Continue reading “What the Feds Can Do for Higher Education: Appoint Richard Vedder”
One of the ways the college curriculum has changed for the worse in recent decades is the rise of what David Randall terms “the New Civics” in a hefty report … Continue reading “The Spread of “New Civics” Is Cause for Alarm”
Listening to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill law professor Gene Nichol’s radical riff ripping trustees and the UNC system’s Board of Governors as cowards, and Republican lawmakers as … Continue reading “Starving the Beast Prompts Choleric Call to Fatten a Sacred Cow”
I pose a simple question: can free and civil discourse survive inclusion of those who would silence that discourse by any means possible—including violent intimidation? That seems to be a … Continue reading “In Defense of Excluding Antisocial Student Groups”
Between the rise of safe spaces, trigger warnings, speaker disinvitations, and the often illiberal conduct of campus demonstrators over the past few years, it’s clear that the core constitutional value … Continue reading “The Campus Free Speech Act: A Way to Restore the Marketplace of Ideas”
Our Winter 2017 issue of Governance highlights our name change from the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy to the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. Articles … Continue reading “Governance Newsletter – Winter 2017”