Only Leftists Can Be Good Teachers
The University of Minnesota’s education school wants to ensure ideological purity.
How To Start a College on Your Own Time
A philosophy professor in California felt that something was missing in education and is now creating an ideal learning community.
The Treaty of Chapel Hill
Formalizing the collaboration between the military and the University of North Carolina system makes sense for the entire state (and possibly the whole nation).
How to Reform from the Ground Up
Fixing higher education won’t come from top-down government mandates, but from grass-roots innovation.
Is Academic Freedom All That Fragile?
It’s less imperiled than two law professors think, and competing rights should be considered, too.
T is for Texas…and Transparency
A new law is passed in Texas requiring that public colleges post course syllabi online.
Arguing for a More Inspirational Curriculum
In-class debates between professors instead of lectures might be a way to rejuvenate students’ interest in the great ideas.
Yale and Berkeley Flunk This Test
A new interactive rating system grades colleges on what’s left of their “core curricula.”
After the Fall
N.C. State’s alumni magazine gathered a panel of key people to make sense of the school’s recent controversies (and kicked off one of its own).
The Culture Chasm at UNC
Selections for a lecture series on “Renewing the Western Tradition” reveal the radically differing perspectives of academics and the rest of us.