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I Pledge Allegiance, To the Diversity...
Virginia Tech has proposed guidelines mandating attitudes toward diversity that stifle academic freedom.... More »
April 09, 2009

Minority Students and Research Universities:
There is nothing to be gained and quite a bit to be lost if we follow preferential policies that deliberately trump merit with group classifications.... More »
April 06, 2009

Duke University on Race
Speakers at a conference believe that racism is still alive, but is this just an academic elite speaking?... More »
April 02, 2009

Obama Fudges Some Figures
A careful look at Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that most of the jobs in the fastest-growing occupations don’t require any college education.... More »
March 30, 2009

Behind Closed Doors
The N.C. Senate’s secretive method for electing Board of Governors members screams for greater transparency—and maybe some new people in charge.... More »
March 26, 2009

Seeking A New Model for Public Higher Education
Tennessee is making a serious attempt to craft an opportunity out of economic hardship.... More »
March 20, 2009

The North Carolina “No Child Left To Determine His or Her Own Future” Act
Attempts to raise the age of compulsory school attendance will result in a loss of freedom and will prove ineffective.... More »
March 15, 2009

Capped—and Gowned—CEOs
Now, what about that limit on $500,000 salaries at tax-supported institutions?... More »
March 09, 2009

What I Learned at Duke University’s “Gaza Teach-In”
Duke's Palestinian supporters left out a few facts during a one-sided event.... More »
March 05, 2009

Global Warming Teach-In
Global warming is not a crisis, but it may be creating a crisis of intellectual integrity.... More »
March 02, 2009

Opening Up the Classroom: A Survey of Students, Administrators, and Faculty
A Pope Center survey reveals support for more transparency in the classroom.... More »
February 22, 2009

The Unscientific "More-Women-in-Science" Movement
Biology, psychology, logic and economics get short shrift when feminists in academia seek numerical parity.... More »
February 19, 2009

Pushing Academic Freedom Too Far
A Canadian professor openly rejects teaching the actual course material to politically indoctrinate.... More »
February 12, 2009

Affirmative Action, the Stealth Version
The University of California's new admissions policies are an end-run around the state's race-blind laws.... More »
February 08, 2009

The Unstimulating Stimulus Bill
Duke University’s Mike Munger gives an economics lesson about the pending spending bill.... More »
February 05, 2009

How Will You Pay for College?
A Letter to Prospective Students (Parents, you’ll want to read this, too).... More »
February 02, 2009

Attacking the Sacred Cow of Academic Research
In a powerful paper, the president of the Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence suggests it's time for a return to teaching.... More »
January 25, 2009

Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune
UNC’s low-tuition policy has some unexpected downsides.... More »
January 12, 2009

He Says What He Thinks
Saxophone great Branford Marsalis comments on today’s college students... More »
January 08, 2009

An Athletic Dilemma
The biggest games in college sports aren’t always played on the field.... More »
January 05, 2009

Backtalk Permitted in this Classroom
A Pope Center article about teacher training for grad students hit a nerve, and some readers respond.... More »
January 01, 2009

Mais Oui!
Foreign languages can help fill the deficit in today’s English instruction.... More »
December 29, 2008

Avoiding the Taint of Christmas
The decision not to display Christmas trees at the UNC-Chapel Hill libraries reflects the view that Western culture belongs in the ash heap.... More »
December 22, 2008

The First Amendment Ain’t Broke—Don’t Fix It
Two commissions created to deal with issues raised by hateful graffiti written at N.C. State should favor constitutionality... More »
December 19, 2008

An Unsettling Conclusion
The Robertson v. Princeton settlement shows that universities will pursue their self-interest, just like anyone else.... More »
December 15, 2008

Skewering the Great Books Movement
In a new book, Alex Beam critiques the 1940s promotion of Great Books but ends up admiring the works themselves.... More »
December 12, 2008

How to Create Terrible Professors
Many graduate students start to teach without knowing a thing about how to do it. I was one of them.... More »
November 30, 2008

No Time for a Spending Spree
North Carolina’s community colleges should question their “all things to all people” policies.... More »
November 17, 2008

A Most Unnatural State of Nature
A UNC speaker’s report that global capitalism is dead is premature, but that does not faze the true believers.... More »
November 13, 2008

Women in Combat Okay with Obama
Obama will consider combat positions and selective service registration for women... More »
November 07, 2008