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James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal  

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.

The Marine officer turned polemicist has written a very bad book.
 
The College of Arts and Sciences has declared war on institutional neutrality.
 
Enrollment pressures are coming. How institutions respond will define their future.
 
Backtracking at NC State reveals that the recent change is already hampering DEI.
 
Good news for students may be bad news for private colleges and universities.
 
Nationwide, colleges withhold diplomas for unpaid balances. Do UNC-System schools?
Nationwide, colleges withhold diplomas for unpaid balances. Do UNC-System schools?
 
John Agresto’s new book reminds us of an essential truth.
 
A new report suggests that academic rigor is not at the top of the list.
A new report suggests that academic rigor is not at the top of the list.
 
Grievance-based curricula are coming to a military academy near you.
 
Colleges should be educators first, not landlords.
 
A new book examines ideological infiltration by brainwashing radicals.
 
Turnitin thinks it can catch students who submit machine-generated prose. But for how long?
Turnitin thinks it can catch students who submit machine-generated prose. But for how long?
 
A firing at Bakersfield College shows that tenure is no match for leftist orthodoxy.
 
Christian colleges may soon find themselves dead by a thousand cuts.
 
Arguments about the proposed School of Civic Life and Leadership are about politics, not process.
Arguments about the proposed School of Civic Life and Leadership are about politics, not process.
 
The University of Austin hopes to upend the existing higher-education model.
The University of Austin hopes to upend the existing higher-education model.
 
Reclaiming foundational ideas is as important as bulking up career preparation.
 
Should a eugenicist’s name be removed from the chapel he built? It’s complicated.
Should a eugenicist’s name be removed from the chapel he built? It’s complicated.
 
In North Carolina and elsewhere, the source is university schools of education.
 
A number of significant bills have made “crossover” in North Carolina's current legislative session.
A number of significant bills have made “crossover” in North Carolina's current legislative session.
 
A Duke physician pushes back against the racism-as-a-public-health-crisis narrative.
 
An unfolding legal saga at the UNC-System institution may expose dramatic threats to free speech.
An unfolding legal saga at the UNC-System institution may expose dramatic threats to free speech.
 
HB 931 will improve campus debates and ban flagrantly ideological hiring.
 
Recent moves by UNC Charlotte and East Carolina University should be applauded.
 
A five-year-old program aims to teach students to argue without rancor.
 
A bill currently under consideration would make several useful changes.
 
Graduate and professional programs, too, should consider time-to-degree reductions.
 
The General Assembly may consider changes to existing higher-ed law.
 
Is Professor Lara Sheehi practicing antisemitism? Consider the evidence.
 
Across the university system, digitization continues apace.
 
The University of California has banned fully-online undergraduate degrees. Good.
The University of California has banned fully-online undergraduate degrees. Good.
 
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