Wayward reporter Richard Perez–Pena, who covers campus sex codes and hearings for the New York Times, recently examined events at four campuses: Amherst, Yale, the University of North Carolina, and…
…previously, and skeptically, about one such filing, at the University of North Carolina. Pérez-Peña’s current article uncritically accepts the petitioners’ account of their cases, and offers no quotes from a…
…here), Florida, and North Carolina. But we can also see a soft version of it in even our progressive president’s State of the Union address. The governors have demanded that…
…not historically subject. Colleges, like the University of North Carolina, fear such accountability, since has the potential to disrupt their business model. The Journal profiled a 23-year old graduate of…
A petition hosted by MoveOn.org is circulating protesting comments made by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory about the curriculum in colleges and universities in the state. He made his remarks…
…backgrounds functioning well: Erskine Bowles (former presidential chief of staff) at the University of North Carolina, David Boren and Hank Brown (former U.S. Senators) at the universities of Oklahoma and…
A team headed by former North Carolina governor (and Davidson professor) James Martin has released its long-awaited report regarding academic misconduct in the UNC Department of African and African-American Studies. Heavy…
Tar Heel alums may be embarrassed over the scandal involving the amazingly low academic standards for “student-athletes” at the University of North Carolina, but for the rest of America, it…
…the poor and working-class. He wants elite colleges and universities to give prefer to the children of poor and working-class families. Suppose that a plumber’s daughter in North Carolina has…
…above is actually Abigail Fisher, and the attorney general’s spokesman is actually referring to the amicus brief Mississippi joined with New York, North Carolina and several other states defending the…
…in the depths of the budget crisis, the consortia are crucial for the preservation of these vital languages. Proving that German need not be a dead language, eight North Carolina…
By Duke Cheston Originally Posted from the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy About a year and a half ago, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro attempted to hire…
…as an example the joint German program that Duke University operates in conjunction with the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Poliakoff speculated that Sullivan’s problems with the UVa board…
…large hearing or swayed many voters in states like North Carolina, which passed a ballot measure in May banning both gay marriage and civil unions. So let’s stick for the…
…the University of North Carolina system were 17X Democratic. Yale, apparently in the most desperate need of politically balanced staff, weighed in at 42X Democratic. Georgetown, a notable outlier among…
…have occurred in North Carolina since 2010), CUNY’s “pinkwashers” doubtless would be scheduling a conference decrying Israel for treating gays and lesbians as second-class citizens. If Israel can be criticized…
…had spent the past several months giving her “voice” to North Carolina’s anti-gay Amendment One? Who had taken a “stance” by repeatedly offering public defenses of Iran’s or China’s human…
Troubles continue to mount for the black studies program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Three weeks ago an internal review of the program showed 54 phantom courses over…
…the University of North Carolina’s African and Afro-American Studies Department. The scandal featured “unauthorized grade changes and little or no instruction by professors. Forty-five of the classes listed the department’s…
…Columbia (war criminal) Victoria Kennedy, Anna Maria College (pro-gay-marriage, pro-abortion) Michael Bloomberg, Univ. of North Carolina (evicted Wall St. Occupiers) Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell, Christopher Newport U. (anti-gay-marriage, anti-abortion) Archbishop…
…the lowest possible burden of proof, a preponderance of the evidence–has affected one university campus. In response to the letter’s mandate, the University of North Carolina has reconfigured its disciplinary…
…players were accused–utterly falsely, as it turned out–of having gang-raped hired stripper Crystal Mangum at “a frat party,” as Reitman described it. The North Carolina Attorney General’s office ultimately dismissed…
…stump at community colleges and public universities, making it a point to underscore the importance of college access and affordability.” Noting that in Virginia, North Carolina, and Colorado young voters…
…letter to the North Carolina NAACP. “What image has this report portrayed to the rest of the country, namely our peer institutions, about Duke and its black students?” (quoted in…
…higher education: first, truly elite private schools (and maybe a dozen or so public flagship universities like the universities of Michigan, Illinois, Virginia, North Carolina, and California–several campuses) whose graduates…
Columnist Mike Adams has some fun today with the strange decision of his college, the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, to lump together two serious academic departments (because of a shortage…
…at the University of Virginia,” a man named William B. Harvey. He has moved on to North Carolina A & T, where he serves as dean of the School of Education. …
Our own Charlotte Allen has a wonderful piece in the Weekly Standard on campus events marking the anniversary of 9/11. While some of the events are rational enough and a…
…the committees go too far. Common readings came onto the national political radar in 2002, when the University of North Carolina assigned Michael Sells’ Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations. An…
Here’s a disturbing news item from North Carolina: The state university system uses its well-regarded medical school and its generous taxpayer subsidies to purchase, compete with, and potentially crowd out…