The Privileged Class
The commotion about the university job of a former North Carolina governor’s wife reveals a larger pattern of undue influence throughout the UNC system.
Adventures in Absurdity
A guy goes back to school in his early forties and finds that academia is sometimes just plain weird.
Budget Crisis Barely Slows UNC Agenda
Despite a severe drop in state revenues, the UNC system is still making rapid changes.
Just Say No to Radical Intimidation
UNC-Chapel Hill gets tough with protestors trying to disrupt a conservative speaker.
Is Teaching a Common American Identity Indoctrination? Part II
A Pope Center writer responds to a reader who equated his use of “common cultural identity” with left-wing indoctrination.
The Ivory Tower: Crumbling From Within?
Successful education entrepreneur Jeff Sandefer describes the academy as too corrupt to endure.
I Pledge Allegiance, To the Diversity…
Virginia Tech has proposed guidelines mandating attitudes toward diversity that stifle academic freedom.
Minority Students and Research Universities:
There is nothing to be gained and quite a bit to be lost if we follow preferential policies that deliberately trump merit with group classifications.
Duke University on Race
Speakers at a conference believe that racism is still alive, but is this just an academic elite speaking?
Obama Fudges Some Figures
A careful look at Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that most of the jobs in the fastest-growing occupations don’t require any college education.