One issue that gets North Carolinian blood boiling is the former Center for Work, Poverty, and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's law school. To conservatives it is a symbol of the left's abuse of its dominance of academia, in which a Democratic politician...
Published: Monday, July 27th, 2015 @ 5:31 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Pity poor Emma Sulkowicz lugging a mattress around the Columbia University campus now for almost a full academic year.
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 10:42 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Ten years ago, Ruth Simmons, then president of Brown University, said in a speech to students that she was concerned about reports about “the lack of diversity of opinion on campus.” People at Brown need to ask themselves, she said, “why the university has a reputation for ‘limiting debate’ and ‘fos
Published: Sunday, May 10th, 2015 @ 4:50 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In a draft report released this week, the working group of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors has completed its review of the 240 research centers scattered among the system campuses. It recommends further review of only 13 and closure of just three.
Published: Thursday, February 19th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The philosophy department at the University of Colorado at Boulder is in hot water. CU-Boulder's administration replaced the department chair, suspended graduate admissions for a year, and sent everyone to sensitivity training. What caused such draconian punishment?
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 5:32 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A recent New York Times piece caught my eye, as it hit upon a topic - alas! - so close to my heart. I'm talking about the enormous glut of people who have earned their PhDs. but cannot find secure, decent-paying academic work.
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 @ 12:43 am
By: John William Pope Center
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America's greatness is in danger, not because as a nation we are economically bankrupt. Not because China owns us and could cash in their vast holdings of U.S.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2013 @ 11:02 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Harvard president Larry Summers quickly became a former Harvard president after he made the mistake of offering some accurate but politically incorrect observations about women and math. Paul Tudor Jones, a billionaire hedge fund manager, large donor, and University of Virginia trustee...
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 1:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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I cross the border under cover of night and slip into the foreign capital. In my trench coat and hat, I hope to complete my mission unrecognized. On the icy river, lights twinkle from the distant hotel. I hesitate a moment, but walk on; there is no turning back. I will execute my mission.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 2:14 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When commentator John Stossel was at ABC News, he said that talking to his colleagues about their bias was like talking to fish about water--"What water? It's just...
Published: Sunday, April 7th, 2013 @ 8:49 am
By: Jane Shaw
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A recent edition of the estimable journal Perspectives on Psychological Science (September 2012) ran something you almost never see in academic literature: an exploration of political bias in academe.
Published: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 @ 7:04 am
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina takes great pride in her university system. Nevertheless, the persisting recession is affecting all aspects of the state's economy, including UNC and its students.
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 @ 12:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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