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University of North Carolina system president Margaret Spellings recently outlined her plans for higher education to drive economic prosperity in the News & Observer
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Over Thanksgiving break, when most students headed home for the holiday to catch up on sleep and maybe some homework, NC State's basketball team traveled to the Bahamas
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The federal government has no constitutional authority to spend money on higher education, to give or lend students money for it, to direct how colleges will function, or anything else
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Zachary Wood is a remarkable young man. He's black, attends a predominantly liberal elite college (Williams) and believes that robust and civil arguments are vital to America's continuing success
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Former Harvard University president Derek Bok can't stop thinking and writing about higher education
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"Reform" is an appealing word, suggesting change intended for the better
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As an alumnus of the University of Texas Law School and the father of a recent UT graduate, I pay close attention to what is going on at my alma mater
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Half of me is reluctant to write something harshly critical about higher education in the United States because I'm such a true-blue believer in, beneficiary of, and insider to the system
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Wise decision making depends on knowledge of the full range of options and information, not with rhetoric designed to push a specific agenda.
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Today’s protest-ridden climate on college campuses might lead one to suspect that they are hotbeds of political disruption controlled by social justice
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Shortly after I moved to North Carolina in 2015, I learned about a dual-enrollment program for students to attend high school and Wake Technical Community College simultaneously
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In January of this year, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Governors unanimously adopted a system-wide strategic plan commissioned by President Spellings
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For many people, the topic of college accreditation is dry and arcane
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Harvard history professor Jill LePore tells this story. She was hosting an event in her home for new students, promoting the university's history and literature program. One of the students there was suddenly distracted by urgent text messages from her parents telling her, "Leave right now, get out
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UNC-Chapel Hill's infamous athletics-academic scandal has officially been swept under the rug
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The University of Missouri, where I teach and which I dearly love, is in crisis
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If a university ignores potential conflicts of interests between athletics and academics, it imperils itself
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In 2013, Stony Brook University (part of the SUNY system) revealed plans for a new "Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities."
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A day after an internal email by a Google employee was leaked to the press, a combination of ideological intolerance and scientific illiteracy led Google to fire James Damore for "perpetuating gender stereotypes."
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Athletes need a good night's sleep to maximize their performance. But that doesn't explain why NC State's proposed new dormitory for basketball players will cost roughly four times as much per bed than other campus living quarters do
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Universities have by and large rendered themselves unable to be policed-sometimes quite literally-and that has not gone unnoticed by the legislators who fund them
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Connecticut legislators made headlines last year when they introduced a bill to tax revenue-generating college and university property. The bill was crafted to help New Haven, where Yale University is located, remain solvent
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The ideological imbalance of American university faculties is not news. Whether one looks at faculty voter registrations, publications, course syllabi reading lists, or merely the steady stream of radical-left "outrages of the day," the evidence is amply sufficient
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Legislating a problem away is an extremely tempting option, when available. Why not try to fix the most intractable problem in public higher education-its intensifying politicization-with a single stroke of a pen, if you hold the ultimate authority through legislative majorities
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Increasingly, the old model of earning a college degree by simply choosing a school, paying cash to cover room, board, and tuition, and graduating within four years (with summers off) is passé
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On my return to Georgetown's campus this fall, I was greeted with the following broadcast e-mail message dated September 6
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Students are enrolling in coding “boot camps” at record rates, with the number of graduates increasing from about 2,200 in 2013 to an estimated 23,000 in 2017
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Late last year, NC State University purchased two small office buildings on Oberlin Road, near the university’s East campus, for the price of $3.1 million. Their location, situated between NC State’s historic bell tower and the thriving private, mixed-use community at Cameron Village
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It is very rare for a federal agency to admit having made a mistake and rarer still for the secretary of a cabinet department to announce a U-turn in policy in a heavily publicized speech
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Anyone who applies for an executive or upper management position at a university these days must demonstrate a "strong commitment to diversity."
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A few years ago, something changed in class. I customarily taught classes where my students read multiple books, wrote thoughtful reflective essays, and came to class prepared to engage in rich discussions
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When it comes to defending themselves against accusations, college students are fighting an uphill battle
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The Chinese don't Like Academic Freedom, so American Schools Should Avoid their Confucius InstitutesAcademic freedom has long been a guiding principle for American colleges and universities
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Most people working within the halls of academia are at least somewhat familiar with the excesses having to do with infringement of due process, free speech, and basic rights under the current Title IX regime
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