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Some University of North Carolina system faculty members are outraged. They have been given only one across-the-board raise since 2011
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:26 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Conversations I've had with non-academics about university employment practices usually evoke surprise and skepticism.
Published: Monday, July 20th, 2015 @ 7:09 am
By: John William Pope Center
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One of the things that most frightens non-tenured faculty members is the prospect of getting too low an average on end-of-term student course evaluations.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 3:01 am
By: John William Pope Center
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One of the first books about the state of higher education that I read after coming to the Pope Center was Generation X Goes to College by Peter Sacks
Published: Friday, November 7th, 2014 @ 6:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Some people have an unshakable belief in the ability of government to solve problems. We hear lots of demands, for example, that the government fix all the problems in our health care system with a "single payer" system where it pays the bills and writes the rules.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 9:02 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Sellers of goods and services are motivated to do their best when they can make more money if they do a great job of satisfying their customers. On the other hand, very few will put forth their best when there is no extrinsic reward for doing so.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2013 @ 9:29 pm
By: George Leef
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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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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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