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Jay Allred

Jay Allred is a native of Burlington, North Carolina. He obtained a B.A. degree in Computer Information Science from Elon University, where he received a Presidential Scholarship. He worked for Piedmont Airlines and USAir before starting his own business, Triad Golf Today and Triangle Golf Today. He coaches women’s golf at Reagan High School in Pfafftown, NC. In the last decade since moving to 4A, his teams have won ten straight conference championships, six regional titles, one state team title, and two individual state titles. However, he prides himself on a greater accomplishment in those years: every player has attended and graduated from college. He served on the boards of Optimist Soccer, Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour, Walter H. Lemmond Alumni Association, and the Elon University Executive Alumni Board.

Articles by Jay Allred

Protecting Student-Athletes in the UNC System

Feb 25, 2019 · Jay Allred · No Comments

In college athletics, student-athletes have few protections against coaching demands that may put their health at risk. As the parent of a college athlete who was left with a chronic back injury, I was shocked to discover how state universities deprive their athletes of health care, injury and abuse protections, and information about athletic policies. … Continue reading “Protecting Student-Athletes in the UNC System”

Recent Articles

Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists Mar 20, 2019

Here’s why indoctrinating children makes perfect sense to postmodernists. Postmodernism is a sprawling movement centered on the conviction that the modern world’s most distinctive achievements—among them the rise of science, technology, individualism, universal rights, democratic-republicanism, and liberal capitalism—should be treated with suspicion or outright contempt. Most of us encountered old-fashioned indoctrinators in our education. Indoctrinators … Continue reading “Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists”

The Essential Ingredient for a ‘Deep Education’ Mar 18, 2019

About a year ago, Princeton philosopher Robert P. George came to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to speak about civil discourse and diversity of thought with the UNC system Board of Governors. He returned on February 8, but this time he came with Cornel West, a long-time friend and philosopher at Harvard University, as guest speakers … Continue reading “The Essential Ingredient for a ‘Deep Education’”

Life Among the Academic Radicals Mar 15, 2019

For almost a quarter century I have been a professor of economics at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. After years of working there, I have learned something about how my department’s academic radicals, who by dint of personality but not numbers have near-decisive control over many departmental decisions. WSU economics is a master’s-level department. … Continue reading “Life Among the Academic Radicals”