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A new executive order from Gov. Cooper will rationalize public hiring in the state.
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At Pennsylvania’s Cairn University, the much-needed subject is no longer optional.
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Reporting on Chapel Hill’s new School of Civic Life and Leadership has been lopsided and misleading.
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America’s elite colleges should welcome the military.
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By approving its own version of a noted free-expression statement, the liberal-arts institution takes a major step in the right direction.
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With the Supreme Court poised to rule on affirmative-action in admissions, the time to spread the word is now.
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Administered properly, overseas-study programs can be a boon for UNC-System schools.
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When are you ever gonna use this? Often.
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Or: How self-selection bias corrupts social science.
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A Penn program bows to market realities.
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At UNC and elsewhere, the (non-)academic medium is the message.
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The legal arguments against it are too strong for the Court to ignore.
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New partnerships with online gambling operations have universities playing the role of bookie.
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Self-inflicted wounds, not changing demographics, are undermining the higher-ed sector.
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Is reform coming? Not if the educrats have their way.
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Tech entrepreneur to talented youth: Skip college.
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Must colleges prepare their students “emotionally” to join the workforce?
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Efforts to make the campus more welcoming have alienated students.
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A push to jettison Praxis core exams in North Carolina is based on flawed premises.
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Having escaped campuses, DEI initiatives are pursuing lawyers on their own turf.
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And other lessons from the world of scholarly "studies."
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If placing teachers in high-need schools is the measure of success, the answer may be “no.”
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Notes on Rousseau, brain chemistry, and the ubiquity of bad academic “data.”
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For nearly all undergraduate programs, it does more harm than good.
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By enlisting the UNC-System’s accreditor in its power grab, the new governance commission threatens legitimate board oversight.
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Let’s remind colleges what they’re supposed to care about.
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If university officials can dodge records requests, public oversight is no longer possible.
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State laws that ignore Trump-era reforms should be amended posthaste.
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Color Us United asks North Carolinians to join in opposing the politicization of medical training.
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From Institutional Review Boards to NIH directives, the problem is only getting worse.
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Two new developments in the UNC-System warrant celebration and praise.
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If an academic field gets politicized, consider looking to its professional overseers.
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The cost of higher education is a problem for everyone, not just minority students.
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Universities must abandon both social engineering and the “customer-service” model.
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