America’s Growing Student Debt Mountain
Lenient rules encourage students to keep borrowing, ignore costs, and hunt for “public service” jobs.
In One State, Kinder and Gentler Commencements
North Carolina avoids controversy and emphasizes the positive.
Racial Preferences Are Falling
The Supreme Court’s Schuette decision reflects the waning support for policies that favor certain groups just to increase “diversity.”
Lessons Learned
My two-year program in paralegal studies had its good points, but some bad ones as well.
Higher Education Already Has a Leftist Bias
But a new book argues that it should have more bias to overcome society’s “conservative” indoctrination.
Trembling in the Ivory Tower
Kenneth Lasson: Trembling in the Ivory Tower; Bancroft Press; 2003; 196 pp. If one listens to spokesmen for the higher-education establishment, America’s colleges and universities are the envy of the world,…
Free Speech on Campus?
Sure—as long as you haven’t previously said anything to offend groups that now hold trump cards.
A Sickness in the Soul
It is time to recognize that academia–including the University of North Carolina–has lost its moral compass.
Free College for Inmates?
States like North Carolina should look to private funding for prison education programs.
Debating HBCUs
An event at NC Central posed tough questions about the viability of historically black universities.