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The educational bureaucracies from the state level down to local school boards, including community college boards of trustees, are rushing to implement administrative regulations and board policies
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 8:56 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Over the last several years, Davidson College’s inhospitality to freedom of thought has caught the attention of concerned alumni.
Published: Sunday, May 15th, 2022 @ 3:35 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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LONDON—A new film in the popular James Bond franchise has reportedly been ruined by the casting of a female in the role of agent 007 because she keeps stopping and asking for directions in the middle of car chases.
Published: Sunday, May 15th, 2022 @ 12:42 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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We’ve heard a lot, in recent years, about a free speech crisis on our college campuses.
Published: Saturday, May 14th, 2022 @ 8:35 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Standardized educational tests do not perfectly measure student aptitude or achievement, and no one argues that they do
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2022 @ 12:25 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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For students who graduated in spring 2020, it’s safe to say that the semester ended on a disappointing note. After four, five, or more years of working toward degrees, graduates didn’t have the opportunity to walk across the stage or celebrate with their peers.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2022 @ 11:20 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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When I was in high school in the mid-1990s, we were all required to swim in gym class. This was before wokeness.
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2022 @ 11:24 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Community college is often seen as a cheaper alternative to traditional four-year undergraduate degree programs, providing students with a widely-accessible means to pursue a postsecondary education without being burdened by tens of thousands of dollars (or more) in student loan debt.
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases that challenge the legality of racial preferences in college admissions, one involving Harvard and the other the University of North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2022 @ 9:05 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Woke medical education is expanding across the United States, which is cause for great concern. One of the last common experiences people have today is going to the doctor.
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2022 @ 7:20 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Since the early 1960s, universities have sought to achieve racial equality. Initiatives have ranged from offering extra tutoring for struggling minority students to making them more comfortable on campus by providing segregated housing and black-only graduation ceremonies.
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 6:50 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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During the years I taught college English, I had a ringside seat watching a new breed of Jacobins seize control of a university English department, then extend their reach throughout the humanities.
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 12:07 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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The Surgeon General warned of a "mental-health crisis" among young people, adding urgency to long-standing concerns.
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 12:57 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Has Meredith College gone woke? When comparing the school’s history and original vision with its current happenings, the answer is a resounding “yes.”
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 9:12 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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James Woods Notes SCOTUS Leak Violated Court’s Sanctity. That Makes Him Wonder How Far Dems Will Go.On the heels of someone leaking the draft of the Supreme Court decision which would revoke the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, actor James Woods pointed out that the nefarious nature of the leak and disrespect for the Constitution made him wonder exactly how far such advocates would go.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 5:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Community colleges in North Carolina have incorrectly reported Direct Loan information to their students, as well as inaccurate student information to the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS).
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 7:30 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Director James Gunn on Monday defended superstar actor Chris Pratt, after some left-wing fans called for Marvel to recast Pratt over his public Christianity, which was equated with homophobia.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 3:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Actor James Franco, fresh off his first comments since being accused of sexual harassment in 2018, will be deposed as part of fellow actor Johnny Depp’s ongoing lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.
Published: Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 @ 12:21 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The past decade has ushered in dramatic growth in the number of postsecondary degree options available to US students.
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2022 @ 12:20 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Democrat President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and brother, James Biden, had scores of transactions involving global business that were allegedly flagged as concerning by U.S. banks, according to a new report.
Published: Friday, April 8th, 2022 @ 12:41 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Tuesday, conservative actor James Woods wasted no time in offering two salient suggestions for Elon Musk after Musk had tweeted that he was “looking forward” to “make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!”
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 3:32 pm
By: Daily Wire
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At the UNC system Board of Governors meeting on January 18, a new funding model was proposed, with some adjustments and feedback discussed at a follow-up meeting on February 23.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 12:53 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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On February 25, Wyoming’s state senate passed a budget amendment to end funding for the University of Wyoming’s Gender and Women’s Studies program.
Published: Monday, April 4th, 2022 @ 12:55 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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The University of Pennsylvania was an excellent school when I was an undergraduate there in the mid-1960s. The politics were polyglot, reflecting an era when the professional classes and even the professoriate were more ideologically diverse than is the case today.
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2022 @ 9:29 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Mrs. Susan Michelle Lamb James, age 52, passed away Saturday, March 26, 2022 at her home.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 8:44 am
By: Announcements
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There was a time when the number of “legacy admits” at colleges was low enough overall that the practice was tolerated.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 1:40 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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The restrictions and changes made on college campuses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have remained a constant companion for students and faculty for the past two years.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 9:03 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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The UNC School of Medicine just released an “update” to its lengthy Task Force to Integrate Social Justice into the Curriculum Report.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 6:45 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Contrary to popular belief, the wars of tomorrow won’t be fought in the trenches. They’ll be fought in labs and lecture halls around the world. Powerful minds, rather than powerful machines, will prevail.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 4:58 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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The UNC system needs to improve its transparency—an argument that the Martin Center has been making for about as long as it has been in existence.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 10:18 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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HBO host Bill Maher slammed NBA star LeBron James, actor John Cena, and skier Eileen Gu for their actions related to China in his New Rule segment on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 8:43 am
By: Daily Wire
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Most Americans have been conditioned to believe that if you don't enroll in college after high school, you have almost no chance at a successful life. That's not true.
Published: Sunday, March 20th, 2022 @ 10:50 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Race has arguably become the single most important defining characteristic of a person in today’s society.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 7:15 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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While American higher education often is rightly condemned for being inefficient, non-innovative, and resistant to change, there are exceptions, and there are some collegiate entrepreneurs whose success is worthy of commendation and emulation.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 4:52 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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