Over the years, the Pope Center has identified many obstacles to improving higher education in North Carolina and the nation.
George Leef has written continuously about the problem of “overselling” colleges and universities to underqualified and disinterested students—and the credential inflation that follows.
Jay Schalin and Robert Martin have outlined various budgetary woes—from specific problems such as unnecessary spending on economic development and the bloated UNC budget to structural problems with higher education’s funding.
Jay Schalin and I have documented cases of bias on campus and examined whether students can exercise their First Amendment rights. Duke Cheston has shown that biases on campus often end up as part of the administrative agenda.
All of us at the Pope Center have lamented the falling academic standards at most of our nation’s colleges and universities. We’ve documented the decline of liberal learning and general education requirements, shown that Shakespeare no longer holds sway in English departments, and decried the lack of economic history courses at all colleges and universities.
Now, it’s your turn to tell us what you think.