Everything is political now, especially at universities. Photo by 53Kevin
Topic: John William Pope Center
Gender Indoctrination at Community Colleges
The trend, which is currently sweeping across four-year colleges and universities, is now spreading to community colleges. What gives?
Publish or Perish Isn’t a Bad Thing
Interesting take on the academic way of life.
Humanities Tries to Defend Itself against Mounting Criticism
Are humanities courses going the way of the dodo? Are they going to become extinct?!
North Carolina’s Approval of For-Profit Colleges is Anticompetitive
Why is the state of North Carolina picking winners and losers in education? The free market should dictate, not some administrator.
Students School UNC on 9-11
Fundamental law of physics: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. “At the start of the fall semester, a freshman student at UNC-Chapel Hill gave the syllabus for ENG 72:Literature of 9/11 a cursory…
The Problems with Getting a Graduate School Education
It is a good look at how flawed the graduate school educational (and job) experience is in today’s ever-changing world.
The Decline of English Departments
The John William Pope Center’s Jay Schalin recently published a report detailing the decline of America’s college English departments. More and more, traditional English literature classes and other similar icons of the English language in…
Federal Education Rules now lead to Free Speech Violations
Federal education regulations paved the way for infringing on our free speech on college campuses.
No Special Treatment for Political Activists
There is a controversy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where the Poverty Center is going to be closed, but whose director has made a fuss about its closing and claimed it was politically…