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The Martin Center thanks its readers after two decades of higher-ed sanity.
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The good news is that two recent reports issued by the American Enterprise Institute can help students avoid college decisions they’ll later regret.
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On July 13, a dozen people from the Union Soldier Campaign protested to get leaders of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to drop “Tar Heels” as the school’s nickname.
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The university system in the United States has accomplished a great deal of good, but it has strayed from its chief goals of scholarly inquiry and responsible teaching, especially in the past 20 years.
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Amid COVID-19, nearly every college — whether a community college or a four-year institution — is facing an unusually tight budget this year.
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Two recent British policy briefs on academic freedom and university reforms provide some broad suggestions applicable to colleges, British or otherwise.
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Remember the stereotype of the lazy college professor living an almost stress-free life while enjoying tenure, virtually a sinecure, often supported by taxpayer dollars?
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In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 209 by an impressive 56-to-44 percent majority.
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On July 23, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted to temporarily waive the SAT or ACT requirement for college applicants.
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In their recent Martin Center policy brief, Joy Pullmann and Sumantra Maitra get much right about the activist professor problem in academia.
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As higher education undergoes dramatic changes thanks to the coronavirus, reformers should aim higher than expanding online education.
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Fordham University student Austin Tong has found himself in hot water over a protest picture on Instagram.
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On June 8, interim UNC system president William Roper and chairman of the Board of Governors Randy Ramsey announced the establishment of a race and equity task force.
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Credential inflation refers to an increase in the education credentials required for a job
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College admissions is a different field than it was 20 or even 10 years ago.
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Long the vanguard of liberal change, the American university now leads the appeasement of a hardened authoritarian China.
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I just finished a fascinating book, The Recovery of the West, by polymath Englishman Michael Roberts.
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On June 17, the Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted to end the moratorium on renaming campus buildings associated with white supremacy or slavery.
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Colleges across the country are preparing for potential spikes in coronavirus cases in the fall.
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Academic freedom is under assault by people who want to control research and speech.
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Universities’ frantic struggles to create fall semester plans that bring students back to campus often hinge on social distancing.
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About 67 percent of four-year colleges plan to re-open in the fall for in-person classes, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Rumors of the humanities’ decline have been greatly exaggerated, a new report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences says.
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Academia is a troubled institution plagued by financial problems, falling academic standards, and poor educational outcomes.
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Two UNC system schools, Western Carolina University and UNC-Greensboro, have announced that they will not offer students housing refunds if the university closes due to another COVID-19 outbreak.
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America’s system of education has failed in one of its most important goals: forming future generations of American citizens.
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As schools have moved online due to the coronavirus, they have partnered with proctoring services to monitor online exams and prevent cheating.
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If you had told me a couple of years ago that a book like Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism would be topping the bestseller lists and receiving accolades from all over, I wouldn’t have believed it.
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The present essay is an attempt to make the case for the elimination of the Department of Education.
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Although colleges across the country plan to reopen for the fall semester, much is still unknown about how to best proceed.
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The term “free speech zone” can be misleading. While the name implies a policy that promotes free expression, free speech zones do the opposite.
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For more than two decades, professors have been “flipping” classrooms to move course material online and use classroom time for student-centered activity and more complex, collaborative thinking.
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The COVID-19 pandemic probably won’t kill the SAT, but will no doubt leave it in a badly weakened condition.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2020 @ 6:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The spring semester saw college campuses close and rush to remote instruction.
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