The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is excited to announce that it will soon change its name to the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2017 @ 7:06 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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My academic field, American Studies, is the interdisciplinary study of American cultures, past and present. Once it was a vibrant and useful discipline
Published: Thursday, December 29th, 2016 @ 1:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In his new video "Just Say 'Merry Christmas,'" Dennis Prager argues that efforts to replace "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays" are misguided. In the name of "inclusivity," he says, we are excluding the roughly 90 percent of Americans who celebrate Christmas
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 11:26 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The final year of the U.S. Department of Education in the Obama administration is noteworthy for all its carnage
Published: Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 @ 2:55 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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It has been suggested that the expansion of free market think tanks on our college campuses is educationally harmful.
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 7:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Administrators at the University of Florida recently notified students that a 24-hour counseling hotline is available to anyone who feels offended by Halloween costumes. Other colleges, in an attempt to pre-empt the psychological threat of offensive costumes
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2016 @ 8:10 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When universities institute things such as "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings," they often justify doing so in the name of protecting students' mental health
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2016 @ 4:50 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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It was a bad idea for the federal government ever to get into the business of financing college with its various grants and loans, but at least in the old days, most of the money loaned was eventually repaid
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2016 @ 2:10 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The Gallup Organization and Inside Higher Ed co-hosted a conference in Washington on September 15
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 9:01 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When politicians and Education Department bureaucrats began designing policies to lessen college students' federal loan burdens, they weren't concerned much with the cost to the taxpayers
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2016 @ 11:48 am
By: John William Pope Center
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At the school where I taught for almost 35 years, the University of Wisconsin—Madison, campus leaders continue their rush to respond to the BlackOut demands put forth by black student leaders last spring
Published: Thursday, December 15th, 2016 @ 7:46 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The number of non-academic administrators at colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, far outpacing the growth in students and faculty
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 @ 3:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Recently, a legislative proposal aimed at improving graduation rates at the University of North Carolina system's 16 institutions was nixed due to vehement opposition from university leaders
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2016 @ 10:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Back in 2003, Thomas Benton-"the pseudonym of an assistant professor of English at a Midwestern liberal arts college"-wrote a brutally honest article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about graduate programs in the humanities
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2016 @ 11:37 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Like all public universities, the University of Texas has a governing body that is supposed to oversee its management-the Board of Regents
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 2:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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On November 16, thousands of students at public and private universities across the country walked out of classes to protest the election of Donald Trump to the presidency
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 12:25 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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After spending thirty years in a corporate environment, I embarked on a second career as a member of the faculty and staff of a liberal arts college
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 4:48 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Among the duties of a university's board of trustees, there is perhaps no bigger responsibility than helping to select the leader of the campus-the chancellor/president
Published: Thursday, December 1st, 2016 @ 7:38 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Accreditation is supposed to act as a quality guarantee for colleges and universities, but it works very poorly
Published: Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 @ 5:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Here is a dirty little secret: I am a teacher at a community college, but I have never taken an education course. The same is true for most of my colleagues at the college level
Published: Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 @ 2:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Recently I attended a meeting of a committee of the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors that has a mission of "setting goals for economic impact." Higher education's role in the economy cannot be ignored; the extent of that role is, however, highly debatable
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2016 @ 3:03 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Many people believe that the nation's college campuses have become hotbeds of sexual assault
Published: Saturday, November 26th, 2016 @ 12:56 am
By: John William Pope Center
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American college students have taken to saying that they need "safe spaces" on campus. They really don't, since all they're after is "safety" from ideas they dislike
Published: Thursday, November 24th, 2016 @ 10:02 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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All is not well on higher education's financial front. At many colleges, tuition prices have reached record highs, enrollment is stagnant, revenues have flattened or declined, budgets are constricted, and regulatory compliance costs are skyrocketing
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2016 @ 12:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Now that another academic year is underway, many university administrators are anxiously awaiting the final tally of fall semester enrollment numbers
Published: Sunday, November 20th, 2016 @ 9:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Vijay-who used his authentic middle name, JoJo, and the description "star point guard for my family's beloved Celtics" on his applications-is the son of Indian immigrants, his mother a highly regarded Boston ob-gyn and his father an architect
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2016 @ 1:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Last month, PEN America, the U.S. branch of an international organization, published a strong defense of free speech on college campuses
Published: Thursday, November 17th, 2016 @ 12:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Four classically liberal professors and an economist named Adam Smith walk into a room. No, this isn't the beginning of a bad joke; it was the first event of the Classical Liberals in the Carolinas conference held last week at Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte
Published: Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 @ 9:32 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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An unlikely champion of more university oversight emerged at a recent University of North Carolina system Board of Governors [BOG] meeting
Published: Monday, November 14th, 2016 @ 12:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Freedom of speech has been under siege at many American colleges and universities
Published: Sunday, November 13th, 2016 @ 11:02 am
By: John William Pope Center
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More than that, however it shows that this is more true in some fields and geographic regions than others and, most significantly, that the leftist trend is becoming more pronounced over time
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2016 @ 7:43 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Many experts believe that the United States is facing a student loan crisis. Total student loan debt now exceeds $1.3 billion-more than total credit card debt for the country
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 8:30 am
By: John William Pope Center
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