The False Choice between the Liberal Arts and Vocational Training

There is a particular kind of confusion almost every student has experienced on a college campus. You need help with something: financial aid, advising, housing, a form, or a deadline.…

In 2009, an anonymous university support staff member wrote to C.K. Gunsalus—a prominent academic who specializes in the study of higher education administration—looking for advice and, frankly, a little bit…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY There is a persistent mismatch between North Carolina’s higher education outputs and the state’s workforce needs. In order to address this gap, policymakers must prioritize and incentivize ways…

The growing (though not unanimous) acknowledgement that academia has lost public trust may be increasingly uncontroversial. But identifying remedies to repair that broken trust is proving to be much more…

No state matches Florida in higher education reform. Its landmark Senate Bill 266, passed during the 2023 legislative session, abolished DEI offices. It also requires general education reform in state…

Universities play—or should play—a critical role helping the next generation of teachers, legislators, judges, and voters understand how to live together in our constitutional republic. For many students, they represent…

Shortly before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, I summarized for the Martin Center the possible reforms to collegiate accreditation his administration might adopt. I divided these conservative reforms into three broad…

The University of North Carolina Wilmington has initiated an ambitious project to establish a medical school intended to alleviate a severe shortage of physicians in rural and underserved areas of…