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With campus scheduled to reopen in the fall, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has released a preliminary roadmap outlining how they plan to mitigate the effects of COVID-19.
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I taught history from 1976 through 2013 at Harvard, Carnegie-Mellon, the Naval War College, and Williams College.
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Without revenue from the NCAA Final Four tournament and other sources of income, it is clear that the intercollegiate athletics industry faces difficult choices from the consequences of the coronavirus.
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were founded to serve African American students whom white colleges would not admit.
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Which college a student chooses to attend is a major decision that can affect the rest of their life.
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For years, college-for-all was the dominant narrative of pundits, parents, and high school guidance counselors.
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When it comes to math performance, the United States has a pitiful record.
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To say that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has experienced racial tensions in the last few years would be an understatement.
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any college graduates think to themselves, “I don’t have any immediate job prospects that are attractive and I can easily get into grad school with the chance of eventually getting my PhD and then a tenured professorship
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A question of power is at the heart of the new and interesting book by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay.
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Recently, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced that he was in favor of a plan to make college education free–for most students at public institutions anyway.
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The UNC Board of Governors’ Committee on Budget and Finance voted on Wednesday to freeze tuition and fees for the 2020-2021 academic year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic downturn that’s affecting many North Carolina families.
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In scientific research, new ideas have become harder to find. Innovation has fallen compared to 50 years ago.
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When I accepted an administrative position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, friends warned me that I would not fit in as a conservative.
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Even though Harvard won the first round in its battle with Students for Fair Admissions, a case challenging the university’s affirmative action policy, the judge did not address the deep and difficult issues that racial preferences involve.
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The American economy is deteriorating “with alarming speed,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell said recently, signaling that the government’s response to COVID-19 put people in a difficult financial situation.
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Higher education reform will only come from the outside, probably from political reform.
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In the latest case where a male student sued his college over the unfair procedures it used to expel him, Colgate University in New York will go to trial.
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Homeschooling works. The roughly 2 million children who currently learn at home join a millennia-old practice supported by many government officials, scholars, college officials, and employers.
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UNC has announced its intent to reopen all 16 campuses this fall with in-person instruction.
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The federal Pell Grant program provides need-based grants to millions of college students every year—and costs the government over $30 billion annually.
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Colleges and universities around the country are proving to be easy prey to hackers with ransom demands.
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As a neurobiologist working at a local university for more than 30 years, I read Edward Archer’s provocative critique of scientific research with interest.
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Most of the wealthiest universities in the country have accepted money from the CARES Act, meant to help university students weather the economic consequences of COVID-19 and state shut-downs.
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By now, most people who’ve attended a wealthy college—or those who tuned into the Democratic presidential debates—have likely heard or seen the word “Latinx.”
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Humorless, intolerant leftist academics are a force to be reckoned with on many college campuses, and a new case at the University of North Texas (UNT) pushes the envelope.
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Stanley Kurtz ranks as one of this country’s most insightful critics of higher education.
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Facebook and Twitter offer colleges tools to limit comments from the public, but using them constitutes a First Amendment violation.
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On picking up What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth, and Equality on Campus, one might expect a book urging those who dismiss today’s college students’ complaints about institutional racism, persistent sexism, and other societal ills to take them more seriously.
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Just a short time ago, it was commonly accepted that it is the fairest way to determine who wins and who loses in the competition of college admissions.
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The types of jobs available before and after the Great Recession starkly differ.
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Here at the Martin Center, we often criticize university research. Rightly so.
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Unforeseeable conditions caused by the coronavirus have driven universities across the country to launch online courses.
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Students across the country are taking their classes online and staying off campus.
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