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A long-time practice for many private universities has been to require most freshmen and sophomores to live in campus residence halls.
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Written in 1903, the University of Texas fight song's opening lyrics are "The Eyes of Texas are upon you/All the livelong day." Unfortunately, for many on campus, the sentiments expressed are more than just a catchy tune-it's a frightening reality
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Carol Folt's tenure as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill came to an abrupt end last week, thanks to her failure to grasp political realities and her defiant support of the school's radical social justice crowd
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The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has been bailed out by the state to stay afloat, but it's hard to say how, exactly, North Carolina has benefited by doing so.
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Samuel Moyn, a Yale law professor, recently asked, “What is ‘cultural Marxism?’” His answer: “Nothing of the kind actually exists.”
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As the cost of higher education soars, it's heartening to hear of universities and professors looking for new ways to meet student needs. Localized innovations allow universities and reformers to experiment and find out what works
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Explaining higher education policy is never easy (even to people who are involved in it)
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Ever since Justice Powell’s lone opinion in Bakke allowed the camel’s nose of “diversity” under the anti-discrimination tent, controversy has raged over preferential treatment awarded to college applicants of certain races.
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Many colleges are setting up their student-athletes for failure. Whether one looks to the long-term neurological health risks that young athletes are subject to, or the myriad cases of academic dishonesty within athletics departments, it appears that the personal and academic well-being of student..
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In 2015, Colorado School of Mines writing instructor Dr. Jon Leydens delivered a TED talk titled “engineering and social justice.” According to Leydens, in the mid-2000s students started asking him about how they could combine their “passion for social justice” with their “interest in engineering.”
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North Carolina State University is the latest university to announce plans to close its Confucius Institute
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Colleges tend to expand beyond their original missions by hiring more administrators and creating new programs
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While money is not the root of all evil, it is undeniably responsible for the transformation of the University of Oregon (UO).
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The proper term for the actions of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate student assistants and instructors threatening to withhold grades unless Silent Sam—a statue of a Confederate soldier who was pulled off his pedestal by a mob of activists in August—is removed from campus
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That famous line from the movie A Few Good Men-"You can't handle the truth!"-applies more and more to the world of higher education. If you doubt that, consider the case of professor Samuel Abrams of Sarah Lawrence College
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Although Margaret Spellings will be leaving her post as president of the University of North Carolina system prematurely on January 15, she started several programs in her three years on the job
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There's a monumental decision coming soon. Not one to decide the future of the nation, such as the midterm elections, but about an actual monument
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Back in the summer, it seemed that the Republican/conservative vision for higher education reform was building momentum
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Colleges and universities need rules defining unacceptable behavior and how students accused of infractions of those rules will be treated
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The sudden departure of Margaret Spellings from the presidency of the University of North Carolina system presents a unique opportunity to address academia’s most serious problem.
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It is an honor to be here this evening with friends and supporters of the Martin Center, an organization on the front lines of the battle for education reform
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State governments treat public university land as non-taxable because the mission of these institutions is nonprofit education
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The surprise resignation of Margaret Spellings from the presidency of the University of North Carolina system presents an opportunity to improve the system’s insufficient governance policies.
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Over the last few decades, the number of college administrators has grown far more than the numbers of students and faculty
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A strong executive with a proven track record, though lacking a typical background in academia, is selected as president of a large public research university in America's heartland
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Americans' trust in higher education is crumbling. According to a recent Gallup poll, only 48 percent of American adults have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education
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Over the decades, the conception of a liberal arts education appears to have slowly lost its meaning.
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The Department of Education is poised to replace Obama-era regulations on for-profit colleges and universities with more broad-based transparency measures
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Like most Americans, I have always assumed that color blindness is our ideal
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The fight for gun rights on campus is often contentious and generally does not favor the Second Amendment
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Many rural counties in the United States-including those in North Carolina-are on life support
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In a recent essay published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley is haunted by a spectre-the spectre of American universities aiding the rise of fascism
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Every year, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) releases a new report illustrating how women are disproportionately impacted by student loan debt
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Headlines in the conservative blogosphere sometimes characterize academia as a hostile environment
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