The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases that challenge the legality of racial preferences in college admissions, one involving Harvard and the other the University of North Carolina. … Continue reading “Should We Replace Racial Preferences with Socio-Economic Preferences?”
Law students are adults who have completed an undergraduate degree. They’re in a professional school to learn the law, procedures, and skills they’ll need in a conflict-ridden, frequently harsh world. … Continue reading “Law Student Complains about a Question; Professor Sentenced to Re-education Camp”
America’s colleges and universities are loaded with professors who insist on teaching students various theories that amount to nothing but fringe opinions and who don’t engage intellectually with those who … Continue reading “Meet a Rhetoric Professor Who Favors Empowerment and Opposes CRT”
From the 1960s until quite recently, the conventional wisdom in America was that going to college and earning a degree was a very good investment. The time and money that … Continue reading “Will Your College Degree be a Good Investment?”
In 2014, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed suit against the University of North Carolina. Its complaint argued that the university had engaged in intentional discrimination on the basis of … Continue reading “Judge Rules for UNC in Admissions Case”
Predictions that American higher education is on the verge of great change have been heard for quite a few years, but so far the system doesn’t look much different than … Continue reading “How Higher Education is Going to Change”
The most striking fact about American colleges and universities over the last fifty years is how rapidly the cost of attending has risen. A good perspective on the college cost … Continue reading “Explaining the High Cost of College”
We take it for granted that people are free to use their abilities as they choose, and as a result, society as a whole benefits from their work and innovations. … Continue reading “Universities and Meritocracy”
No one spoke of college students being trapped in debt until rather recently. Prior to the advent of federal student aid programs, college wasn’t expensive, few Americans regarded it as … Continue reading “How Did We Get Into the Debt Trap?”
A decade ago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was engulfed in a sports scandal that made national headlines, brought down a chancellor who seemed destined for a … Continue reading “Recalling the Great UNC Sports Scandal—How Much has Really Changed?”