What Speech Rights Do Public-University Professors Have?

What is the primary driving force behind a student’s decision to attend college or university? Presumably, many would say the obvious: Young people pursue higher education for better job opportunities,…

The DEI practices at America’s colleges and universities have been justly criticized for being anti-meritorious, unconstitutional, racist, and costly. However, a recent lawsuit against UCLA’s medical school suggests that its…

Recent legislative developments in the Virginia General Assembly have placed the future governance and military character of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) at the center of an intensifying state-federal debate.…

Every fall, I attempt to convince my yearly cohort of college-counseling students that writing is the single most important skill they will ever learn. Many of them stare at me…

“Yes, the academic conference has fallen on hard times.” So begins Martin Center editor Graham Hillard’s recent National Review Online article “Strange Days at the Modern Language Association.” Hillard surveys…

Politicians in different states see in-state tuition benefits for “undocumented” students very differently. Some see them as rewarding illegal immigration, while others see them as investing in the community. States…

The report “Peer Review Gone Wild”—co-released by the Martin Center, the Goldwater Institute, and Defending Education—makes for compulsive reading. In it, Goldwater’s Timothy K. Minella details the dumpster fire that…

The Advanced Placement program has made the College Board one of the most economically dominant and pedagogically powerful organizations in American education, at least for now. Since 2023, the company…