Two years ago I attended a student debate at North Carolina Central University, one of the state's five public historically black colleges and universities
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2016 @ 12:41 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Recently I coached a bright high school senior on how to get his college admission essay into shape
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 @ 7:28 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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For the last several years, Big Labor has pushed for mandated higher pay for workers, rallying around the slogan "Fight for Fifteen!"
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2016 @ 1:54 am
By: John William Pope Center
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At the Pope Center we spend a lot of time recommending changes to higher education policy. It's in our name. But there are ways you-as a citizen, parent, student, or employer-can pressure higher education to change.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 4:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Recently some influential members of Congress complained about the supposed unfairness of colleges and universities who raised tuition at an excessive rate, despite their gigantic endowments
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2016 @ 3:52 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A few years ago, I went back to school. I was in my 60s and nearing retirement as president of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 @ 6:20 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Politicians around the nation like to say that they have held down tuition at their state universities. Michigan's are no different, and to validate their claim, in 2011 they added incentive-based funding to university appropriations.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2016 @ 3:00 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The University of Pennsylvania has promised $100 million to increase faculty diversity. Yale has just pledged $50 million, Johns Hopkins $25 million. These sums are large, but the goal has been an object of urgent attention for decades
Published: Monday, February 29th, 2016 @ 3:58 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Nearly three months have passed since student protests upended the institution where I teach law, the University of Missouri (Mizzou). There have been several changes on the Columbia campus.
Published: Saturday, February 27th, 2016 @ 10:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Beginning in the 1960s, a movement developed in academia with the aim of transforming scholarly pursuits into instruments of social change
Published: Saturday, February 27th, 2016 @ 6:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the spring break party that triggered the Duke lacrosse case
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 11:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just how bad colleges have become when it comes to free speech and toleration for anyone who disagrees with those who hold power cannot be underestimated
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 7:42 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The increased use of non-tenure track faculty by universities has drawn condemnation from many entrenched in the seniority system, but critics may be ignoring the more complex realities and distinctive needs of 21st Century higher education.
Published: Tuesday, February 16th, 2016 @ 10:24 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As medieval Europeans placed their hope for salvation in the church and donated vast sums for the construction of splendidly ornate cathedrals, many modern Americans place their hope for a future better world in higher education and give accordingly
Published: Sunday, February 14th, 2016 @ 12:09 am
By: Christopher Maye
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As the stock market gyrates and talk of a new recession begins, many universities have reason to worry
Published: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 @ 9:00 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Richard Burr (R-NC) issued the following statements in response to a letter from leaders of the Air Force and Army certifying the deactivation of the 440th Airlift Wing at Fort Bragg's Pope Airfield...
Published: Sunday, February 7th, 2016 @ 11:01 am
By: Chris Downey
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As a liberal who grew up near California's Bible Belt in Orange County, I was brought up to believe that the enemies of reason were the Christian creationists who taught that the world is 6,000 years old and that biologists can't explain the evolution of complexity without invoking a divine creator
Published: Monday, February 1st, 2016 @ 9:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In Great Britain, as in the United States, a growing moral consensus and a lack of political diversity among faculty and administrators is moving higher education away from the pursuit and transmission of knowledge in favour of the promotion of politically correct values
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 9:56 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Affirmative action is before the Supreme Court again this week, as it rehears arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 3:49 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Looking back at all that happened in higher education this year is enough to make your head spin. One minute, state politicians are finally making good policies; the next, university officials are caving to irrational demands
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 10:04 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Over a long teaching career, I have seen a lot of change in our colleges and universities-some of it good, but much of it not. In the not-good category I would put the decline of our commitment to educate our young people for American citizenship
Published: Sunday, January 24th, 2016 @ 1:13 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Many students and their families are starting to wonder about the value of going to college at every expense only to come back home afterwards and settle into a mundane job that high schoolers could do.
Published: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 @ 4:32 am
By: John William Pope Center
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According to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro catalog, the course "ELC 381, The Institution of Education" is "required of students seeking teacher licensure." Unfortunately, the course often goes far beyond what is politically acceptable for an education course at a public university.
Published: Friday, January 15th, 2016 @ 3:25 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Rarely have I read a book about higher education that is so varied as Michael Roth’s Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 9:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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America's national obsession with raising our "educational attainment" level leads politicians and bureaucrats to focus on the silliest of things. Lately, that has been college accreditation.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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I am a community college failure. Or perhaps I should say, I helped fail one community college. Decades ago, after receiving my bachelor's degree, I enrolled in a few community college math and statistics classes to prepare for graduate school. Had I not taken those classes, I doubt that I would hav
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Four-year universities in the United States are gaining a reputation for forcing left wing viewpoints on their students. Blatant examples of indoctrination such as the University of Delaware's residential life program often attract a great deal of attention when exposed.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013, along with the massacre of nine black churchgoers last summer in Charleston, South Carolina, created racial hysteria and gave rise to an anti-intellectual movement that has now extended to American campuses
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:18 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Since 2005, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has been on American college campuses recruiting students to join a movement to isolate Israel.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:46 am
By: John William Pope Center
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John Fennebresque's friends and coworkers call him "Czar." That appears to be a fitting nickname, for his imperious exercise of authority was his downfall as chairman of the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 12:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Politicians are usually eager to be generous with the money taken from taxpayers, especially when it helps them gain favor with some interest group
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The Pope Center publishes this paper as part of our continuing effort to spur transparency in higher education. North Carolina citizens need to know if the UNC system is fulfilling its mission of discovering, creating, transmitting, and applying knowledge. The new edition of...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:57 am
By: John William Pope Center
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In the last few years, the rights of students in North Carolina universities have received some significant new protections
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 6:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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"Diversity" is the new slogan under which academics and their institutions march. But what is it? What does it mean? How will we know when we have achieved a sufficient amount?
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 5:42 am
By: John William Pope Center
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