RALEIGH — Free speech on college campuses saw improvement for the 13th year in a row, according to a report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE. FIRE’s 2021 Spotlight on Free […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused U.S. universities of caving to Chinese pressure to blunt or bar criticism of the Chinese Communist Party in a speech two weeks ago. The attack, which […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Justice Department investigation has found Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law, officials said Thursday. Yale denied the allegation, calling […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge on Wednesday allowed the Education Department to move forward with new rules governing how schools and universities respond to complaints of sexual assault. The rules, which take effect Friday, […]
When Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin spoke to my colleagues at Stanford’s technology licensing office in the late 1990s, other search engines already existed. But Page and Brin, who were graduate students at […]
When University of North Carolina System Interim President Bill Roper recently issued a statement that campuses would reopen this fall, he acknowledged the difficulties of digital learning and said it couldn’t replace in-person instruction. “The […]
I explained in two past articles that student debt is a real problem and that universities have encouraged it through their own irresponsible behavior. With new college graduates facing an uncertain financial future, so it’s […]
In a recent column for the North State Journal, I explained that student debt is a real problem — not just a campaign slogan to attract millennial and Gen Z voters. It hampers workers and […]
In debate over higher education, a new North Carolina poll indicates a growing consensus for Congress to adopt a series of measures aimed at increasing higher education accountability to ensure that the degrees students earn provide value. A poll of […]
In North Carolina, it’s illegal for state government to compete with private business. That’s because of the Umstead Act, which was originally adopted in 1929. Since then, it has been updated many times. Today, it […]
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