James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal | Eastern NC Now
The James G. Martin Center is a continuation of of the John William Pope Foundation, and its continued support of a prudent and wise education paradigm for the people of North Carolina.
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The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) rates teacher education programs on how well they teach different subjects such as science, social science, and content knowledge.
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My purpose in selecting The Harvard Classics was to provide the literary materials from which a careful and persistent reader might gain a fair view of the progress of man observing, recording, inventing, and imagining from the earliest historical times to the close of the 19th century.
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The era of the four-year bachelor’s degree is over; today, only top students graduate within the traditional college timeline.
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For a lot of students in the University of North Carolina system, North Carolina is the place they call home well before they begin college.
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Americans used to relish good debates. The debates between Senator Stephen Douglas and his challenger Abraham Lincoln in 1858 were transcribed and widely read.
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People who analyze and write about higher education generally fall into two camps...
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Distance education has expanded greatly thanks to the internet, making higher education accessible to non-traditional students.
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Last year, the Martin Center released its first report on the state of free speech and institutional neutrality in the UNC system. The report serves two main purposes.
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A certain anger at society seems to pervade the academy today. Hardly a week goes by without hearing about outraged students either demanding recompense for some perceived injustice or attempting to shut down an invited speaker.
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Macalester College is a small (2,000-plus students), highly regarded, and very selective liberal arts college in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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As young people worry about their futures, going to college isn’t necessarily their first step toward a good job.
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It is quite common: A successful college alum decides to donate a large sum of his accumulated wealth to his alma mater, but wants the money to be used in a specific way. School officials want the money.
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The public has lost faith in the NCAA and colleges to protect student-athletes. When surveying the numerous ideas for fixing college sports, it’s hard to make any other conclusion.
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People in the education policy and funding worlds don’t like Sandra Stotsky. For years she has been a robust critic of too many things educators, ed school professors, school administrators, and philanthropists have hailed and implemented.
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The dominance of registered Democrats to Republicans in academia is becoming more and more apparent.
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While students, their families, and the American public should be concerned by the fact that there is intense progressive homogeneity among administrators, there are a few areas of the nation where there is more balance.
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"Early college" is an increasingly popular program that allows students to earn college credit in high school.
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In October 2015, the Martin Center published an article reminding conservatives why they should defend tenure.
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A quick scan of the news confirms that college students spend more on higher education than ever before, but they lack the necessary skills to succeed in the workplace.
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With the rising number of student loan defaults, the federal government has reaped what it has sown.
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Flagship universities such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other public universities were created by their states primarily to support the higher educational needs of in-state students.
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The continued employment of an unhinged, violent anarchist as a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says a whole lot about the university system’s standards when deciding who should influence the next generation.
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Tuition freezes are gaining popularity across the country. Earlier this year, university systems in Virginia and Pennsylvania announced that tuition would not rise in the next academic year, saving students and parents millions of dollars.
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Collectively, the endowments of 15 Massachusetts colleges in 2017 were $70 billion, greater than the GDP of Lithuania.
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Back in 2010, I wrote a piece for the Martin Center entitled Bad Sociology, Not Law bemoaning the marginalization of common law doctrine in the American law school curriculum.
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Student loan debt has reached the dizzying level of nearly $1.6 trillion—largely due to ever-soaring tuition prices and students taking on financial burdens that far outweigh their earning potential.
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Last year, in what became known as the Sokal Squared hoax, James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian created 20 fake papers that they submitted to several cultural studies journals. Seven of them had been selected for publication at the time the hoax became public.
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Every year, professors around the world write millions of letters of recommendation.
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Modern universities are ignoring their civic duty to teach their students how to become engaged citizens.
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When college officials violate people’s rights, they run the risk of bringing on lawsuits that can cost their schools a lot of money.
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For too many politicians and presidential hopefuls, a free college education is a cure-all for inequality in America—so long as the federal government can pour enough money into it.
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Many if not most professors and higher education leaders enjoy pontificating about their high-minded ideals in contrast with the grubby, self-interested world outside of academia.
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North Carolina schools have a serious literacy problem; most likely, that means it has a teacher education problem.
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Inane occurrences on college campuses tend to parachute into national news headlines every week or two. Those glimpses, however, cannot do justice to the reality of the collegiate atmosphere.
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