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And what the Right can do about it.
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North Carolina’s colleges should make their “Common Data Sets” publicly available.
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If loan dollars are to flow, borrowers should be made to understand the terms.
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A California law suggests that not-for-credit courses may be on their last legs.
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Technological and political changes may liberate scientific research.
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Rational arguments against them can still win hearts and minds.
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In the age of wokeness, ideological (re)education trumps mission-preparedness.
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An upcoming Board of Governors meeting may decide the issue.
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There is an answer, if progressives can bring themselves to give it.
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A report from last Monday’s oral arguments on racial admissions preferences.
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Program-value and debt-to-income data are sufficient to protect the public interest.
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Between increased spending and “profit” lies … what, exactly?
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When universities can delay and dodge records requests, a new system is needed.
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In North Carolina and elsewhere, universities must police themselves or submit to legislative oversight.
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The practice is inconsistent with liberal values.
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An interrupted speech shows the battle over "cancel-culture" is not over.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has just published the latest assault on academic standards, Jordynn Jack and Viji Sathy’s “It’s Time to Cancel the Word ‘Rigor’.” Jack teaches rhetoric and comparative literature, Sathy psychology and neuroscience; both teach at the University of North Carolina
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We take it for granted that people are free to use their abilities as they choose, and as a result, society as a whole benefits from their work and innovations.
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Shed the amenities, sports, and politics. Stick to teaching and research.
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Though annual security reports may imply otherwise, crime on UNC-System campuses remains low.
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The solution to the college-financing problem is opening up the marketplace, not hyper-regulation.
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A new program at Troy University hopes to do its part.
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A college president explains why lifetime employment for faculty isn't necessary.
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Recent changes to UNC-System prose betokens lurches to the left.
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Traditionalists should cheer a return to formal art instruction.
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The senator-turned-university-president will have his hands full in the coming months and years.
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Whether or not law schools keep the famed admissions test, the evaluation that matters is the Bar exam.
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As the UNC System revises its chancellor search guidelines, a few things to keep in mind . . . .
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What incoming freshmen are thinking? Hardly.
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To graduate on time, first-years must attempt, and earn, a sufficient number of credits.
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A Davidson professor bemoans the state of his classroom.
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Standardized tests have been attacked for being biased against some groups of students. Is that true? Should we stop using them?
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Despite efforts by state legislators, the institution remains committed to DEI nonsense.
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A new survey reveals surprisingly positive attitudes in the wake of the pandemic.
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