Blueprint for Reform: Trigger Warnings
Blueprint for Reform: Trigger Warnings is a policy guide for state legislators and university trustees. It examines the prevalence and impact of trigger warnings in higher education, highlighting concerns about…
Pervasive Sex Discrimination at North Carolina Universities
Pervasive Sex Discrimination at North Carolina Universities, a new report by Adam Kissel, examines five of North Carolina’s largest universities – UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Charlotte, North Carolina State University, Wake Forest…
Blueprint for Reform: Freedom of Association on Campus
Blueprint for Reform: Ensuring Freedom of Association on Campus is a policy guide for state legislators and university trustees. It underscores the fundamental right of students to freely form and…
Blueprint for Reform: Due Process on Campus
Blueprint for Reform: Due Process on Campus is a policy guide for state legislators and university trustees. It addresses the critical need to uphold due process rights within higher education…
Blueprint for Reform: Free Speech on Campus
The “Blueprint for Reform: Free Speech on Campus” is a policy guide for state legislators and university trustees. It underscores the essential role of free expression in higher education, advocating…
Blueprint for Reform: Institutional Neutrality
Blueprint for Reform: Institutional Neutrality is a policy guide for state legislators and university trustees. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining political and ideological neutrality in higher education institutions to…
Blueprint for Reform: Viewpoint Diversity
Blueprint for Reform: Viewpoint Diversity is a policy guide for state legislators and university trustees. It underscores the critical role of viewpoint diversity in fostering academic freedom, open inquiry, and…
Bolstering the Board: Trustees Are Academia’s Best Hope for Reform
From the Executive Summary of Bolstering the Board: Trustees Are Academia’s Best Hope for Reform: Two conditions are needed to effect large-scale reforms in academia: a hierarchical, top- down system…
‘Witches’ and ‘Viruses:’ The Activist-Academic Threat and a Policy Response
How much of academia is infiltrated by activists? Some conservatives claim that “neo-Marxism” and its sister paradigms like feminist pedagogy, post-structuralism, and post-modernism have long infected certain departments in the…
Policy Brief: Higher Education After COVID-19
Before COVID-19, universities were already beginning to experience an enrollment decline, mostly fueled by demographic changes. The current crisis will raise existential questions for small and mid-tier institutions. Only universities…