An Imaginary Crisis
Conventional wisdom has it that America desperately needs more STEM graduates, but “it just ain’t so.”
Too General, Not Enough Education
NC State’s general education program lacks focus and expects too little of students.
How Affirmative Action Could Die at UNC
Still waiting for a decision in Fisher v. University of Texas, Ed Blum hunts for more plaintiffs.
Abusing the Rules
Vague and unenforced UNC system policies give bureaucrats and campus officials too much latitude.
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,…