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On March 2, there was one of those oh-so-revealing events that makes people realize that very bad trends are at work in America, trends that are corroding the essence of civilization
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I pose a simple question: can free and civil discourse survive inclusion of those who would silence that discourse by any means possible-including violent intimidation
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Since 2010, the UNC system's Board of Governors has become somewhat more conservative and more interested in serious educational reforms
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Nowhere is the adage "personnel is policy" truer than in the federal education bureaucracy
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James Gates Jr. is a theoretical physicist renowned for his work with supersymmetry, supergravity, and string theory. The University of Maryland professor says he prefers to shun publicity, but his curriculum vitae boasts of many accomplishments and honors, including service on former President Obam
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In an article published recently in the Atlantic, “The Curse of Econ 101,” University of Connecticut law professor James Kwak argues against what he assumes to be the content, thrust, and effect of the basic principles course, Economics 101
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One of the ways the college curriculum has changed for the worse in recent decades is the rise of what David Randall terms "the New Civics" in a hefty report published in January by the National Association of Scholars (NAS)
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Much as Martin Center readers may disparage Marxism, there is one author who deserves our attention
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Judging from recent books, articles, and editorials, higher education is poised for a cataclysmic collapse
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Between the rise of safe spaces, trigger warnings, speaker disinvitations, and the often illiberal conduct of campus demonstrators over the past few years, it's clear that the core constitutional value of free speech is now under siege at our colleges and universities
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Testifying before the U.S. Senate in 2013, University of Wisconsin professor Sara Goldrick-Rab described college campuses as "glorified summer camps."
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The governor's rationale neglects two crucial facts-that many people do in fact enjoy "economic mobility" even though they never earned any college credentials and that many others are not enjoying much economic mobility despite having college degrees
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When Drexel University political science professor George Ciccariello-Maher tweeted "All I want for Christmas is white genocide" on Christmas Eve, he handed the Philadelphia school an opportunity to play an integral role in our national intellectual dialogue
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authoritarianism that increasingly characterizes the American professoriate is on full display in a case involving the master's program in social work at Rhode Island College (RIC)
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At their best, community colleges provide educational opportunities to individuals who otherwise might not have them
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On December 19, the U.S. Department of Education announced that as of the end of the year, it would no longer allow students to use federal aid money at the Charlotte School of Law
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