The modern university has had a great 200-year run
Published: Monday, February 9th, 2015 @ 4:10 am
By: John William Pope Center
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George Ehrhardt, one of the few avowed conservative political scientists at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, has published an article that attempts to explain to the political left what the political right’s views are on higher education.
Published: Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 @ 12:43 am
By: John William Pope Center
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I have made the decision to never again seek employment at a college or university. I will never send another C.V. to an institute of higher education. I am finished wasting my time.
Published: Saturday, December 27th, 2014 @ 9:59 am
By: John William Pope Center
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After 30 years working in the chemical industry, I knew that I wanted to teach as a second career. I was fortunate in 2002 to find my way to Ursinus College, a highly regarded liberal arts school near Philadelphia, where I have worked for a dozen enjoyable and stimulating years on both faculty and s
Published: Monday, October 6th, 2014 @ 8:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A lot of dollars are riding on how many courses professors in the University of North Carolina system teach (or how many they are perceived to teach). Roughly half of the UNC budget consists of professors' salaries.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 8:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The incident was one for the history books. In April, Brandeis University, a school created after the Holocaust for Jews who faced bias at Ivy League schools, rescinded its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to be a commencement speaker. Hirsi Ali is an activist for fair treatment of women around the...
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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In 2010, when tiny Peace College in downtown Raleigh hired a new president, a cascade of changes began, all designed to protect the future of the institution.
Published: Monday, April 21st, 2014 @ 6:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A new faculty promotion system at one of North Carolina's largest community colleges could increase the school's focus on education. On the other hand, it could be a sign of "mission creep," as the college joins a recent trend of community colleges striving to look and act like universities.
Published: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 @ 11:38 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A hearing at Winston-Salem State University to investigate a professor's alleged misconduct raised more questions about the administration than it answered about the professor.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 12:23 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Thankfully, much is being made of Heather Mac Donald's recent piece, "The Humanities and Us," in the City Journal. She illustrates the decline of college English departments, where "gender, sexuality, race, and class" have taken over Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The radicals of the...
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 1:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As a finance and economics professor, I often encounter students with scarce financial knowledge. While students finish high school well-versed in topics such as dangerous drugs and sex, often they know little about basic financial concepts such as compounding interest or the mechanics of the...
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 7:16 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A recent New York Times piece caught my eye, as it hit upon a topic - alas! - so close to my heart. I'm talking about the enormous glut of people who have earned their PhDs. but cannot find secure, decent-paying academic work.
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 @ 12:43 am
By: John William Pope Center
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With a few notable exceptions, government agencies in North Carolina do not expect a major hit from Obamacare mandates in the coming year. But that could change in 2015, when large employer requirements kick in for organizations such as the UNC system, where as many as 10,000 temporary employees...
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 @ 8:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The labor market for college professors has long been distorted. Tenure is a major factor; another is the presence of a massive labor supply glut, in the form of too many aspiring faculty members for too few full-time jobs. In some ways, the faculty labor market now resembles the market for...
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2013 @ 1:24 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Most professors accept the following statement, or something very nearly like it: tenure exists in order to protect academic freedom. Without tenure, so the story goes, scholars would be forced to choose between employment and the quest for truth; dogma would replace objectivity.
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2013 @ 1:23 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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How I do marvel at the credulity of academic man! Especially those professors who publish voluminously but cannot write, who take their Marx with white wine and brie while thousands of adjuncts support their families on French fries and English composition, who preach a tolerance as...
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 4:50 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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That America needs a better-educated workforce has become today's honored wisdom, so what better measurement of progress than rising college graduation rates?
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 10:31 pm
By: Robert Weissberg
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