The Demise of Disparity Studies?
…Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina (hereafter SFFA), racial preferences in college admissions were found to violate the Fourteenth Amendment and…
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House v. NCAA: A Threat to Higher Education’s Academic Mission?
…University of North Carolina (UNC) revealed nearly two decades of academic fraud involving fake classes created to keep student-athletes eligible for competition. According to the report, these “paper classes” required…
The Renaissance of Civic Education
…of Civic Life and Leadership at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill, which ACTA helped create, has already gained national attention. It was deservedly featured in articles in the…
Will the Marketplace of Ideas Promote Campus Free Speech?
…robust marketplace of ideas ruled by logic and evidence, not violent intimidation. Examples include the Academic Freedom Alliance, the Committee on Open Expression, North Carolina’s School of Civic Life and…
Did Hard Grading Spur UNC Greensboro’s Cuts?
…about the Three College Observatory, whose director I am and which is a unique North Carolina research facility, the only question from the provost was about DFW rates in my…
On Campus Safety, the Left Is Hopelessly Confused
…North Carolina, a similar confusion has reigned since at least 2018, when student protesters toppled UNC-Chapel Hill’s iconic “Silent Sam” monument, erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy more…
Florida Leads Fight Against Politicized Accreditation
…the role of President. In North Carolina, SACS boasted that it would prevent the University of North Carolina from establishing a program for intellectual diversity. And in Georgia, SACS threatened…
Zero Republican Professors Found in Six Humanities Departments at UNC Chapel Hill
…the philosophy, classics, and history department are likely going to be disappointed at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. That is because there does not appear to be any Republican…
Zero Republicans Found in Seven Humanities Departments at NC State University
…seven of the humanities majors at North Carolina State University, a College Fix analysis found. The Fix found 158 Democrats and 8 Republicans teaching in the 10 humanities majors reviewed….
Federal Overreach is Threatening Innovation in Online Education
…decades. My July 2024 report on online education in North Carolina examined what public and private universities were doing. At that time, the federal threats to innovation included the U.S….
The People from Nowhere
…do, North Carolina would do, too. North Carolina’s Provincial Congress, with representatives from just about every town and county in North Carolina, was not royally authorized—a first step on the…
Ending the Leftist Think Monopoly on Campus
…North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill. These and several other centers, mostly located in relatively conservative states, were created in spite of faculty or administrative opposition. Arguably, the biggest and…
Why Are Race-Based Scholarships and Programs Suddenly Under Attack?
…These changes are happening around the nation, including in North Carolina’s leading institutions, with Duke walking back a race-based scholarship program on the heels of the Supreme Court’s momentous ruling…
Calling on Gentlemen in Fairfax County
…colony. It gave the lead to all the colonies to its south—North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. To have the support of Virginia was to make the cause of Boston…
Safetyism and the Tentifada: Modern Campus Protests Undermine Intellectual Rigor and Erode Higher Education
…a local HBCU, North Carolina A&T, staged a sit-in at the Greensboro Woolworth to protest racial discrimination. James Meredith braved the gathering mobs at the University of Mississippi. The Freedom…
Shaun Harper Has a Plan to Save DEI. It Includes Eradicating Dissenters.
…and the University of North Carolina. Given my support for the Court’s decision, I was particularly interested in Harper’s response, in which he suggested 13 action points to attract underrepresented…
Stephens Must Save Ohio Colleges from Radical Ideology of DEI
…Several prominent universities, for example, the Universities of North Carolina, Florida and Texas have moved to completely shut down or severely restrict DEI efforts that enforce an authoritarian leftish ideology…
‘Smoking-Gun’ Data on North Carolina ACT Scores
…indeed inadequate. During the pandemic-era test-optional period, many students who attended public high schools in North Carolina still took the ACT during their junior years, as required by North Carolina…
Veritas to Falsitas: Universities Have Abandoned Truth
…their campuses. While there are bright spots, such as President Sasse at the University of Florida and President Roberts at the University of North Carolina, many leaders in our higher…
‘ChatGPT Is Really Helpful:’ The Martin Center Interviews Carolina’s AI Experts
…modules. An effort of Carolina AI Literacy, the modules were created by Daniel Anderson, director of the Carolina Digital Humanities and of the digital innovation lab; Dayna Durbin, undergraduate teaching…
Divesting from Israel Is Not Just Wrong but Stupid
…of the protesters. I am thinking, for example, of the fraternity member at the University of North Carolina who protected the American flag from those wanting to replace it with…
Some of These Institutions Need to Die. But They Won’t.
…activists, and virtue-signaling corporations. Other institutions have embraced the free market of ideas. Hillsdale, Purdue, Chicago, and the public systems of states like Florida, Texas, and North Carolina signal real…
Continuing a Tradition of Civics Excellence
…Ohio, Utah, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, and elsewhere, civics education may be seeing a rebirth. “We need these civics centers at every institution of higher education in America,” says political…
DEI Bureaucrats Get One-Way Ticket Off Campus
…instance, a committee at the University of North Carolina system voted on April 17 to repeal its diversity and inclusion policy and replace it with a new “equality within the…
Thank You, Hoover Institution
…that are popping up nationwide. Centers and programs like the University of Texas’s Civitas Institute or the University of North Carolina’s School of Civic Life and Leadership represent ways to…
After Claudine: How to Repair American Higher Education
…this regard is the United States Supreme Court’s decision in June 2023 in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which knocked down the “diversity”…
Equity is Not Science
Suppose I were to tell you that in a North Carolina county, neighborhoods with a “lower percentage of White individuals … lower economic and racial spatial advantage, and higher area…
Counseling’s Political Purity Push: Unveiling the Identity Crisis That Hijacked Accreditation and Shaped a Profession
…today. Counseling Today, the flagship magazine of the ACA, is publishing openly racist articles and trainings. A full 23 states conditionally require CACREP for licensure, and North Carolina, Ohio, and…
Maryland Regrets the End of Racial Discrimination
…the “determining” factor in admissions cannot be true for decisions about some students. This disingenuous rationale was exactly the one used by the University of North Carolina and Harvard University….
Fair Admissions Model Legislation Aids the Battle Against Racial Preferences
When the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College, bundled with the University of North Carolina (UNC), the higher education status quo…