North Carolina’s Talent Gap

At colleges across the country, departments compete for students with scholarships, fellowships, and grants. This practice is so common that it rarely attracts attention. Yet, a recent Daily Tar Heel…

My most recent Martin Center column highlighted the irony, considering higher education’s formative influence on America’s prevailing anti-natalist culture, of the industry’s anxiety over declining birthrates. “Where,” I asked, “are…

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the world around us. From the workplace to the classroom, its impact is being felt across nearly every aspect of society. College admissions is no…

A few weeks ago, I was one of the audience gathered in the Hillsdale College DC campus’s marvelous new but neo-classical auditorium to hear US Education Secretary Linda McMahon discuss…

Two years ago, UNC-Chapel Hill introduced a new resource allocation model that ties funding more closely with student demand. This approach makes sense, aligning incentives across academic units and rewarding…

One of my most memorable experiences as a college student was an insult I received from my professor. I had missed an exam due to work, and I asked him…

In a new research brief, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Education found that only 44 percent of American high school students expected to earn a bachelor’s…

Robert Kelchen of the University of Tennessee, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education recently, described the most dire problem facing higher education today: “The list of institutions trimming academic…