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Last month, the Raleigh News & Observer laid out a series of articles questioning conservative leadership at the University of North Carolina System and General Assembly.
Published: Saturday, March 12th, 2022 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a recent article for the Martin Center, Duke professor Mike Munger asked an important question: should “a political board composed of nonacademics…be empowered to evaluate faculty proposals on hiring and curriculum in the first place?”
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Conservative thinkers are mostly united on the need for reforming the American college system, but they’re divided on how to do it. It can be hard to pin down, exactly, what is to be done, as the Martin Center has previously reported.
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Academics are growing wary of the peer review process amid mounting evidence that it is compromised by ideological biases and that it does not effectively or reliably ensure the quality of published research.
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Hillsdale College has published a gigantic collection of reading materials and curriculum of nearly 2,500 pages, which it has termed the 1776 curriculum collection.
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Law schools in the U.S. used to be run by no-nonsense individuals who, whatever their personal politics, thought that their institutions existed to teach students about the law, not to engage in advocacy or speculation.
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Student debt isn’t necessarily always bad. For some, taking out the necessary amount of loans to fund one’s education may be a prudent decision.
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State legislatures are taking up higher education reform.
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Long before Covid, mental health experts declared a different sort of pandemic — a precipitous decline in mental health on college campuses.
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There are six new members on the Board of Trustees at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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At Davidson College, the frog finally realized that it’s being slowly cooked alive.
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Fifty years ago, I entered the University of Tennessee-Knoxville as a freshman scholarship runner on its high-profile track team.
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Affirmative action policies aim to increase the representation of minorities in higher education.
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The following is adapted from an address given at a Martin Center luncheon on July 15, 2021.
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The need for change in the visual arts may offer a way to fix two of the many fundamental problems afflicting American liberal arts education in general.
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Few of my manuscript submissions to education journals have been reviewed substantively.
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Florida is now one of several states that have legislated against teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the classroom.
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It is hard to fathom the extent to which American colleges and universities have been taken over by Critical Theory
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Although many colleges and universities today claim to be dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion, their policies and practices often violate those principles.
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Online education, especially as it has been implemented in the past year, isn’t for everyone.
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After 30 years of service, I was ready to retire when I heard about an opening at a small Christian college in Kentucky, I applied for the position of academic vice president and was hired.
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About two years ago, I spoke to a class of UNC-Chapel Hill students about free speech: what it is and why it is important.
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Over the years, qualified immunity has expanded so that it today covers higher education administrators when they violate the constitutional rights of students or faculty members.
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There are several notable differences between the higher education systems in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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COVID-19 has revolutionized how we think about online college teaching.
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I am so grateful for and blessed by my time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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College athletes’ rights, including their economic rights, have long been denied.
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Former Harvard president Derek Bok has long lamented that our institutions of higher education largely underperform in their missions.
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Collegiate esports — competitive video gaming — has grown dramatically in recent years.
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In March, the North Carolina legislature appointed five new members to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.
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The need to combat “microaggressions” has recently saturated America.
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With “cancel culture” running rampant on social media, in politics, and in the classroom, professors who put forth the effort to help students think critically and challenge their beliefs are needed more than ever.
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Karl Marx is a common fixture on college course syllabi.
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Parents will go to all sorts of lengths to give their children a leg up.
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