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North Carolina State University students need to be taught about how to be “inclusive,” according to the school’s chancellor and top administrators.
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Public higher education was once America’s great enabler
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In a new law that will change the direction of higher education in the United Kingdom, the British government is drafting the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which might require universities to defend free speech and freedom of expression.
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Colleges and universities used to proclaim that their mission was to give students a broad education that would expand their intellectual vistas
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My first year at Duke Divinity is, well, not quite what I expected.
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Last year, advocates of racial preferences in California, where they’d been banned since 1996, attempted to change the law so that state colleges and universities could again give admission advantages to certain groups.
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The University of North Carolina system includes 16 universities, from large campuses with high research activity to small liberal arts institutions.
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The fight for “equity” in higher education is a story-driven project.
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Last week, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees came under fire for “viewpoint discrimination” over its decision not to offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones
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The certification process couldn’t be more different from traditional higher ed.
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Students have had to make many sacrifices over the past year, be they financial, academic, or personal.
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As American higher ed prepares for the on-campus experience again, college leaders are encountering a problem: whether they can (or should) mandate th
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The 1960s were a turbulent period for academia, and we are still struggling with the repercussions of that turbulence today.
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The recent hiring of New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones as a faculty member in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism raises serious red flags about how the university is being run.
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Diversity training is now in force at many institutions of higher education.
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UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media recently announced a heralded addition to their faculty.
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As students’ grades are falling at alarming rates, so too is their mental health.
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Members of the media and faculty erupted into histrionics at the recent appointment of Darrell Allison to the chancellorship of Fayetteville State University.
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Everything that the UNC system and its constituent institutions do is dependent on a generous inflow of money.
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Woke” academics have taken to attacking almost everything that’s traditional in our culture.
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The recent appointment of Darrell Allison to the chancellorship of Fayetteville State University (FSU) has sparked a controversy.
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What is the value of a liberal arts education?
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An unfolding case at Smith College shows how the obsession with race can blind administrators to facts and lead them to act in ways that harm innocent people.
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Netflix’s documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal tells the story of rich parents bribing their children’s way into their college of choice.
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As was shown in the first article in this series, “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is a misleading term, indicating a radical political agenda rather than a set of ethical principles.
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For regional and less-known colleges, stopping enrollment declines depends on demonstrating their value to potential students.
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Over 20 percent of college students come from lower-income families, according to Inside Higher Ed.
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The “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) paradigm is sweeping through academia.
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A few years ago, my friend Sheila recounted an incident of alleged racism she experienced at a café in California.
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The loss of public trust in universities that has risen to front page news did not suddenly emerge in 2020.
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“I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
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The phrase “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” is a loaded one; it does not signify noncontroversial principles, as might be assumed, but instead describes a radical political agenda.
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With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts within the higher education policy space were projecting that four-year colleges could face a loss of up to 20 percent in fall enrollment.
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The overall success of online education is being hindered by the fact that some classes just aren’t meant for online instruction.
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