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Student loan debt, now totaling roughly $1.3 trillion, is the second largest source of debt in the United States
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Recently, a bill was introduced in the North Carolina legislature that would shift control of the state’s apprenticeship program from the department of commerce to the community college system
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If you've spent much time on a college campus you've probably heard the claim that conservatives are anti-science
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During Barack Obama's administration, the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights was staffed with "progressives" who were intent on pushing federal policy in ways that advanced their visions
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During my time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I graduated this spring, many of my peers and professors seemed to genuinely care about the free exchange of ideas, students were often pushed to explore all sides of an issue, and analysis of factual evidence was usually a key
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Fortunately for President Trump, many appointments don’t require Senate approval, and a cabinet member may appoint leaders to certain high-level positions within his or her department.
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The University of North Carolina was founded with an excellent governance structure-with one glaring flaw that allows power to be concentrated in the General Administration rather than dispersed between the several branches
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The United States got along nicely for its first 176 years without any federal legislation on higher education.
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The Martin Center has been covering the Kafkaesque case of Marquette University professor John McAdams since it first broke several years ago
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U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has signaled that she might be a force for good when it comes to scaling back Obama-era Title IX expansion
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Many English departments are now beginning to offer courses on graphic novels, which integrate text and visual imagery
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In their Atlantic article, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukainoff identified a troubling development on American campuses
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University foundations are at the forefront of schools' fundraising, event planning, and publicity efforts
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President Trump scares academe. Many feel threatened, under siege, rejected, aghast
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The Faculty Senate at Wake Forest University made headlines last week when it demanded that the university reject a $3.69 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation
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Dual enrollment programs, which allow high school students to take college courses for college credit, have been getting some bad publicity lately
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Student intolerance and opposition to free speech have been gaining momentum
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College officials have cultivated a nice image for themselves-scholarly people who care deeply about providing the best possible education for their students
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Last week, I experienced the infantilization of the campus for the first time
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It has become extremely popular on college campuses. Students have leveled complaints against faculty members for their insensitive microaggressions against them, such as correcting their grammar
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First, I would like to address conservative parents. Lately, I hear many of you questioning whether you should send your kids to college. Maybe they should just go to trade school or straight into the workforce
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Academics often point out that diversity is good, in part, because it brings different perspectives and experiences to the table
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Christina Hoff Sommers, also known as YouTube's "Factual Feminist," spoke last Wednesday at UNC Chapel Hill
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There is something about judicial nominations that brings out the worst in U.S. Senators.
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Honest reporters and editors have asked a hard question since Election Day: How could we have been so staggeringly wrong about so much in 2016
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Each year, roughly 1.4 million high school students take college courses
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Universities in the United States do not have a monopoly on intolerant and disruptive students
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At this year's Association of American Colleges and Universities meeting, held in late January in San Francisco, a sense of misgiving filled the conference hall
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More than six years have passed since Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa rocked the academic world with their landmark book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
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Conservatives today seem to be pretty good at winning elections. They also seem to be pretty good at spreading their ideas; there are more conservative think tanks, student groups, campus centers, policy organizations, and media outlets than ever before.
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Concerns over campus safety-both founded and unfounded-have escalated recently
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Hostility to free speech has become a salient characteristic of American college campuses
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In 2015, Time magazine reported that there had been 23 shootings on college and university campuses that year, including an attack at a community college in Oregon that claimed 10 lives
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As Massachusetts was considering signing on to a national curriculum and testing plan called Common Core, one of its lead writers gave a presentation to its state board of education
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