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Education reformer E.D. Hirsch may have discovered the cure for our current political divisions — but it won’t be easy.
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People that work at universities and newspapers should be the most intellectually free people in the world.
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Elite colleges are quick to take foreign donations, but slow to inform the federal government.
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In the wake of George Floyd’s death, a number of colleges have cut back their interactions with local police departments and are redesigning their law enforcement programs.
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Oreskes and Tyson published “Is Academe Awash in Liberal Bias?” in the Chronicle of Higher Education on September 14.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released a report decrying the politicization of public higher education governance
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hough the 2020 election has focused on COVID-19 and the economy, higher ed has still gotten some attention.
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Students are paying a higher price tag for college, but is the quality of their education also increasing, or at least staying stable?
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From my vantage point as an academic sociologist, I have seen the disturbing process of what we might call the BlackLivesMattering of American higher education from quite close up
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Fifteen years ago, American higher education was beset with serious problems, especially rising costs, politicization of the curriculum, the mania over diversity, and falling academic standards.`
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“Sunlight,” Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote, “is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
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Since the pandemic, many colleges have gone from giving letter grades to offering students a pass/fail grading option for their courses.
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For ten years I served on the GRE Literature Exam committee.
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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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In spring 2020, when universities went online due to COVID-19, few of them expected to be online in the fall as well.
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On August 3, the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication approved a position statement on “Black Linguistic Justice.”
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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) came out with the largest survey of students and campus life, showing the predictable divisions along class, political beliefs, and gender.
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For college campuses across North Carolina, the fall ushered in a less-than-ideal reality. The coronavirus, although under greater control than in the spring, was -- and is -- widely circulating.
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I have worked in academic science my entire life and I have never seen any sign of racism, systemic or otherwise.
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very so often, a leftist thinker breaks free from the orthodoxy to point out that policies favored by “progressives” can have adverse consequences.
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The abrupt switch to online classes was shocking for tens of thousands of students and professors across the country.
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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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Across higher education, campuses have changed how they deal with religion.
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The importance of college football to university education is vastly overrated.
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Colleges and universities across the country don’t require students to study history.
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic walloped our colleges and universities, higher education had been facing threats to existing business models for years.
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It has been a very strange year.
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In 2014, the UNC Board of Governors voted to “place a 15 percent cap on the amount of tuition revenue that can be applied to need-based student financial aid.”
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Arecent defense of student loans by Jason Delisle of the American Enterprise Institute is, uncharacteristically for him, off-base.
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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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Student debt has a bad reputation. It’s under attack from the left, which sees debt as a ball and chain that ruins the lives of young people who had the audacity to seek a decent education.
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After the killing of George Floyd and the protests that followed, several departments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have released statements on their intention to fight systemic racism.
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Hundreds, maybe thousands, of colleges and universities will soon be wiped out by an unprecedented combination of financial exigency and revolutionary ideology.
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Though college leaders had the summer to plan for students to return to campus, the fall 2020 semester has arrived as a bust.
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