Nov 2, 2026

What America Can Learn From North Carolina on Free Speech

Five North Carolina universities rank among the nation's top 20 for campus free speech. Here's what they're getting right.

What makes America the best country in the world? Freedom. And when it comes to free speech, North Carolina may be one of the best states in the country.  In…

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Oct 30, 2026

Colleges Created the AI Cheating Problem

Like many who’ve spent any degree of time instructing undergraduates, I’m all for complaining about the youth, and I have accumulated substantial material to work with. In many ways, the…

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Oct 29, 2026

UNC Settles With the DOJ. What Now?

Last week, UNC-Chapel Hill became the most recent university in the country to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over allegations of antisemitism and racial preferences. It also…

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Oct 28, 2026

South Carolina Takes Out Higher Ed’s Trash

My wife, daughter, and I walk through our neighborhood every day. I’ve been monitoring the situation at one house for the last few years—the yard is usually clogged with old…

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Oct 26, 2026

Sports at What Cost? Athletics, Academics, and the UNC System

Note: NC State football coach Dave Doeren was fired right before this report’s publication.  College sports aren’t all fun and games. They come at a real cost to students and taxpayers,…

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Oct 26, 2026

What Would Calvin Coolidge Think of UNC?

Once upon a time, an American president declared, “It is perfectly apparent that the needs of education were never greater than they are at the present time.” But it was…

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Oct 23, 2026

Why Professors and Trustees Don’t Get Along

In many ways, the modern university’s two decisive constituencies are the trustees and the faculty. The trustees are the university’s ultimate executive authority; the faculty carry out the university’s core…

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Oct 22, 2026

Universities Should Get Out of the Radio Business

Hardly anybody thinks better of themselves than journalists—their foremost competition being, perhaps, academics. The cacophony of self-congratulation reaches a peak in state-funded journalism; the fact of the venture’s unprofitability seems…

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Oct 21, 2026

Delaware’s DEI Discount Goes to Court

The University of Delaware has recently discovered that charging full tuition is sometimes easier than getting cute with discounts.  On October 1, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit…

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