Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on May 12, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Let us take for granted that the NCAA in its prime was greedy, hypocritical, reactionary, schoolmarmish, tone-deaf, and […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on September 16, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Earlier this year, the Martin Center’s Ashlynn Warta wrote convincingly that faculty opposition to academic cuts at UNC Greensboro was best understood […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on October 14, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Ah, October, when temperatures fall, men rake leaves, and universities publish their annual crime data, as required by the 1990 Clery Act. […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on September 27, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Things should be what they are in higher education as elsewhere. Colleges advertising a liberal arts curriculum should immerse their students in literature, […]
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