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Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship is now in its twenty-fourth year of existence. Originally the brainchild of then Governor Zell Miller, since 1993 this merit-based scholarship program has distributed in excess of $9 billion in lottery proceeds to about 1.7 million qualifying recipients
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The term "McDonaldization" was coined by sociology professor George Ritzer in 1993
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According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, in the previous two decades over 31 million students have dropped out of college shortly after beginning their coursework
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Four years ago, brothers at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at UNC Wilmington (UNCW) brought campus due process-or lack thereof-into the sunlight. The young men had been accused of hazing and underage drinking
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A university president recently addressed his campus community about an incident that had shaken his Wisconsin school
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Last fall Wake Forest University announced a $4.2 million donation to fund "the study of human flourishing" at the university's newest institute-the Eudaimonia Institute (EI)
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Since launching its Stand Up for Free Speech project in 2014, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has had a great deal of success in defeating college officials when they interfere with the free speech of students
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The obsession with diversity is so widespread among American colleges that it has become a normal part of campus life
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That free speech on college campuses is under attack cannot be denied
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Last week marked the latest chapter in the biggest college sports scandal in history
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We engineers like to solve technical problems. That's the way we think, that's why we chose our major, that's why we got into and stayed in engineering
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The excuse we have often heard for raucous campus protests over the last few years is that they are justified as a way of countering the "violence" of speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos and Charles Murray
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From Evergreen State University in Washington to Yale University in Connecticut, campaigns to punish or fire professors accused of thinking or saying things outside the bounds of political correctness seem to crop up with disturbing regularity
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Five years ago, higher education was abuzz over distance learning, a "disruptive technology."
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So you think you might like teaching college English. You love the language and its great works
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I wanted to "bury" them-in rhetorical fashion-for removing institutional neutrality out of the otherwise outstanding North Carolina Campus Free Speech Act
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Law school faculties hold a sacred trust. We guard the outermost portals into the legal profession, a group that wields powers to shape society in profound and lasting ways
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The academic enterprise is supposed to be about truth. Those who are entrusted to teach are expected to convey knowledge to their students, not their opinions
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Higher education has a public relations problem on its hands. The results of a new Pew Research survey show that almost 60 percent of Republicans believe higher education has a “negative effect on the way things are going in the country
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For most professors, the quest for tenure is an all-consuming obsession
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This academic year has been punctuated by a series of high-profile campus protests
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Legal education has become a surprisingly regular topic of news media for several years now
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If anyone needed a reminder that American colleges and universities have become expert at wasting time and money, my recent experience with mandatory "sexual assault training" might supply it
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The passage of the North Carolina Campus Free Speech Act (HB 527) this legislative session was a great advance for the spirit of free inquiry that is, or should be, at the heart of higher education.
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For the past six years, I have taught an undergraduate course on international economics at Johns Hopkins University
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Universities have been assessing students by grading their work since the Middle Ages
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The budget released by the North Carolina Senate in early May sets a careful course for higher education
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American campuses have drifted away from academia and toward administration
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Vice President Mike Pence spoke to the graduating class of Notre Dame, drawing attention to the loss of free speech on American campuses. He denounced the “noxious wave that seems to be rushing over much of academia
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By now you have heard the story. It plays out like a script. A “controversial” speaker—almost always a conservative or libertarian—is invited to a campus. Protests, and in some cases riots, ensue. The speech is canceled or the speaker shouted down. The free exchange of ideas gives way to authoritari
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I attended an estate sale for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and a wave of unreality washed over me
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Going through the college process makes no sense. First, kids guess where they might want to go, then pay to apply, wait to hear, and, if accepted, fill out financial aid forms, wait, and eventually learn what it will cost
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Many readers probably have read about the New Wave of free speech suppression that has swept across campuses in the last several years
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Temperatures in North Carolina may not yet have reached their high point this summer, but tensions certainly are heating up now between the UNC School of Law and the North Carolina General Assembly over the latter's proposed budget
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