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"Two days. Two reports citing the same data. Two different conclusions.” That is how Rick Seltzer described the near-simultaneous release of two studies looking at state funding in Inside Higher Ed.
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There is general agreement among higher education observers and reformers that tuition and fees at public universities have increased at an unsustainable pace.
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Many influential psychological studies could not be reproduced by other psychologists, discrediting some key insights and weakening academic faith in the entire field. Nutrition science has a similar problem.
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Since the 2008 financial crisis, the history field has seen a precipitous decline in the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in American colleges.
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In North Carolina, the largest college endowments saw their market value increase between 8 percent and 20 percent from 2017 to 2018.
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Who cares that 20 students at the University of Wisconsin staged a protest in October 2017?
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The latest data from the Department of Education found a national default rate of 10.8 percent in 2015, below the 2014 rate of 11.5 percent.
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Universities may not target unpopular speech on campus often, but when they fail to protect it, the results are similar to officially silencing speech.
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A recent report from Payscale showed that a majority of college graduates regretted their college decision.
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Since educating architects is a global problem, the analysis presented here is aimed at an international audience.
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Scholars gathered October 24 and 25 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to discuss free speech—and focused on its alleged pernicious effects.
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Academics Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian have led the reaction against scholarship-as-activism with their famous “grievance studies” hoax.
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Because of the biased media coverage of Title IX, most Americans still believe that its expansion is about protecting women and minorities.
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A recent cascade of investigative reporting on the shady business dealings of Jerry Falwell Jr. has raised some troubling questions about the controversial evangelical figure and his vision for Liberty University
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Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts released its ruling in Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University.
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Since April, I’ve witnessed the ongoing destruction of the University of Tulsa (TU) by a cadre of wealthy and powerful people affiliated with the billionaire George Kaiser.
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Classical education—a tradition of education with ancient roots—is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to the current K-12 public education model.
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“Opportunity zones,” defined by a 2017 law, are poor areas targeted by the federal government for economic investment.
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In a long-awaited decision, federal trial judge Allison Burroughs has ruled that, while Harvard does consider a student’s race in determining who gets in and who doesn’t (“the use of race in and of itself is admitted”), nonetheless Harvard is not breaking the law.
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Reports of declining community college graduation rates and the lack of skilled workers have led policymakers and college leaders to sound the alarm
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College admissions standards are meant to determine whether a student is academically prepared to succeed at college.
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In The Soul of the American University published in 1994, the historian George Marsden gave a powerful account of how once-great pillars and trend-setters of American higher education have abandoned even a residual commitment to the Christian foundations on which they were founded.
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Public colleges spend public money, but college officials are reluctant to make information about their budgets easy to understand.
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Unfortunately, the outlook for PhDs hasn’t improved since 2012. More and more, doctoral students sacrifice family, wealth, and their mental health to earn a degree with terrible job prospects.
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Most students rely on loans to pay for college; colleges raise their prices, and student debt increases. Now, about 44 million students collectively owe $1.6 trillion in student debt.
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A letter from the federal Department of Education has sparked yet another controversy on the campuses of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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In his new book The Assault on American Excellence, Yale law professor Anthony Kronman traces many of the current woes of American universities back to the use of one word in one opinion in one court case.
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Many Americans crow that our higher education system is “the envy of the world,” even though it’s nearly impossible to point to any proof of that.
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More advanced societies tend to have more educated citizens, which is one reason why politicians of all stripes call for sending more students to college.
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An important new front in the culture war has opened up at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one with major implications about intellectual diversity and how universities in North Carolina are to be governed.
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The modern American university has changed almost beyond recognition from the form it had even 100 years ago.
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The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) rates teacher education programs on how well they teach different subjects such as science, social science, and content knowledge.
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My purpose in selecting The Harvard Classics was to provide the literary materials from which a careful and persistent reader might gain a fair view of the progress of man observing, recording, inventing, and imagining from the earliest historical times to the close of the 19th century.
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The era of the four-year bachelor’s degree is over; today, only top students graduate within the traditional college timeline.
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