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Last week, Congress approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, a $2.4 trillion spending package that includes $23 billion in aid for public and non-profit colleges and universities.
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The year 2020 brought changes that colleges would have never made by choice.
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When planning their college years, students want reliable advisors who can help them pick the right major and classes.
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I can’t remember a single alternative to college proposed to me, for me, my entire school-age life.
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When planning their college years, students want reliable advisors who can help them pick the right major and classes.
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Three universities in North Carolina host chapters of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, a group with ties to the Chinese government.
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Our Blueprints for Reform provide recommendations and solutions ready for implementation.
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In an essay in the liberal UK broadsheet The Guardian, multiple authors chart out the most important task for the incoming Biden administration: to “restore the faith in science.”
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One of my favorite projects at the Martin Center is the cultivation of our higher education library.
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There’s a chasm between the purpose of a liberal arts education and how many colleges and universities actually operate.
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Although all state colleges and universities shout “diversity” and preach “tolerance” at the top of their lungs, they in fact demonstrate monolithic bigotry and homogeneous narrow-mindedness.
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It has never been harder to teach artistic individualism in America.
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For decades, universities have required students to fulfill a foreign language requirement.
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Although most universities have moved classes online since the spring, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent to ensure that the campus facilities still open are kept clean and safe for use.
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As a student in the 1980s, like many bookish young people of my era, I gravitated toward the English department because I had always loved to read.
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“In the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion, North Carolina universities have often chosen inequity and exclusion.”
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When students think back to their college days, they may remember a philosophy class that made them question their life or an art class they thought would be easy, but gave them the most stress that semester.
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As academia becomes ever-more entrenched in groupthink, it can be intimidating to be a lone voice that refuses to toe the ideological line.
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Many people and groups are pressuring Joe Biden to issue an executive order that would cancel some or all federal student debts shortly after he takes office.
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It is no secret that our colleges and universities have witnessed a sea change in campus culture over the past two decades.
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Universities’ profligate spending habits have caught up with them after substantial losses in student enrollments due to COVID-19.
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Inevitably, college music departments have succumbed to pressure to promote “social justice” and fight racism.
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To speak against critical thinking in today’s academy is comparable to denying the divinity of Jesus in the medieval church — it’s heterodox.
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With the pandemic, more parents are discovering what their children are being taught in public schools — from explicit how-tos in sex-ed class to narratives of power that divide everyone into oppressors and oppressed.
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Many students since the pandemic have questioned whether they should attend graduate school or change their career plans altogether.
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The university system in the United States has accomplished a great deal of good, but it has strayed from its chief goals of scholarly inquiry and responsible teaching, especially in the past 20 years.
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Many, perhaps most, Americans are just now waking up to the meaning of “woke.” What does “woke” have to do with looting, bricks, fires, and blood in Portland, Seattle, and Minneapolis? One asks oneself, “Am I woke (good)? Or not woke (evil)? How woke is woke, how much wokeness is enough, and who dec
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Virginia’s top public universities are largely stratified by socioeconomic status.
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Since 2015, the University of North Carolina system’s Board of Governors (BOG) has endured one controversy after another
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Nowhere is “cancel culture” more deeply entrenched than in academia; it was commonplace there long before the actual phrase was coined to describe the current social media phenomenon.
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As college classes go online, one group of students is ignored: those with learning disabilities.
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For decades, law school was a growth industry. Back in 1970, there were 146 law schools with an enrollment of 78,000 students; by 2013, there were 201 schools, enrolling 139,000 students. Enrollment peaked in 2010 at 147,000.
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Countless students begin and graduate from college with an impoverished humanities education, a reality that should disturb any proponent of the liberal arts.
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Accreditation agencies have the responsibility of judging whether colleges are offering students a quality education.
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