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College students are having to go back and learn the basics.
Published: Monday, September 25th, 2023 @ 7:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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colleges are becoming radical political re-education camps
Published: Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 @ 11:45 am
By: John Steed
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Florida college students on Sunday slammed a California university for urging its non-white students to report professors who cause “race-related stress.”
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2023 @ 10:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced that the state of Florida would scrap diversity, equity, and inclusion funding from public universities and increase scrutiny toward underperforming professors.
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 2:10 pm
By: Daily Wire
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According to a new study by conservative campus watchdog The College Fix, 95% of donations made by professors at North Carolina’s 10 largest universities, both public and private, went to Democrats.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 @ 2:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A recent study by the conservative site The College Fix found that UNC Chapel Hill professors were 16 times more likely to be registered as Democrats than as Republicans.
Published: Thursday, September 1st, 2022 @ 11:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I doubt that many people think of college professors as harried and overburdened to the point where they're putting their very health at risk, but [...]
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2016 @ 10:37 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Dr. Joe Houmard and Dr. Paul DeVita in East Carolina University's College of Health and Human Performance have been named the first two LeRoy T. Walker Distinguished Professors.
Published: Monday, August 15th, 2016 @ 3:34 am
By: ECU News Services
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Two East Carolina University professors are the first to receive the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Early Career Award recognizing exceptional performance by tenure track professors.
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 9:45 pm
By: ECU News Services
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On the whole, U.S. colleges and universities don't get everything right. They're overpriced, operationally hidebound, and ideologically stagnant. But American higher education does some things very well-well enough that students from around the world still choose to come to the United States to...
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 8:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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College syllabi are handed out en masse at the beginning of a course for students. Sometimes they're kept and carefully followed; sometimes they're tossed away when the student decides not to take the course after all. Professors often post their syllabi online. They're certainly not treated like cr
Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 @ 8:55 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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For a long time, those of us who argue that higher education’s standards are eroding had to point to anecdotes to support our case.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 6:29 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Two professors in the ECU Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences were inducted as distinguished professors at the college's annual faculty convocation Aug. 25.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 9:55 pm
By: ECU News Services
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North Carolina Central University's College of Behavioral and Social Sciences held its second annual "Great Debate" last week in front of a packed audience of students, professors, and administrators. "HBCUs: Can They Survive?" was the topic of this year's debate, which featured student teams...
Published: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 @ 8:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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"Universities for a very long time have been based on trust." So said the provost of the University of North Carolina, commenting on a report that a course taken mostly by intercollegiate athletes had never actually met. Dozens of other courses may have been similarly fraudulent, and a criminal...
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 9:46 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Perhaps the most glaring weakness among American college students is their writing. Many enter college lacking the ability to put together even a single good paragraph - and graduate without much improvement. It has been that way for a long time.
Published: Monday, December 30th, 2013 @ 6:33 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Two management professors in the College of Business retired on the exact same day this fall, ending more than four decades of combined teaching at East Carolina University.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 3:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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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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Why is it that the great majority of college professors are liberal (i.e., hold mostly to "progressive," pro-state ideas about politics and economics) and why should conservatives be concerned that they are?
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Students are often exasperated by professors who waste their time with boring, rambling, irrelevant lectures. The problem is that tenured faculty members often just don't care any longer.
Published: Thursday, January 31st, 2013 @ 12:57 pm
By: Robert Weissberg
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