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.
Behind Closed Doors
The N.C. Senate’s secretive method for electing Board of Governors members screams for greater transparency—and maybe some new people in charge.
Hollow at the Core
So-called improvements to N.C. State’s general education curriculum permit students to avoid an education instead of getting one.
What I Learned at Duke University’s “Gaza Teach-In”
Duke’s Palestinian supporters left out a few facts during a one-sided event.