Perspectives

How can it be that somebody is permitted to legally attend a UNC school when they are not legally supposed to be in North Carolina?

In 1982, the Supreme Court decided that K-12 education could not be denied to illegal immigrants. Symbolically speaking, these children have now grown up and, twenty-five years later, the issue is whether illegal immigrants should be denied a college education at public community colleges and universities.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on selective discrimination against Christian holidays during the Christmas season.

While the vision of a “carbon neutral” setting in academia helps place the schools on the cutting edge of the green movement and even though another 378 schools have signed on to the pledge many of the signatories are finding tougher to walk the walk than talk the talk on this issue.

Freedom of speech is much prized on the nation’s campuses, and often invoked by faculty. But is there freedom of speech for college trustees?

Recently, a history professor at a distinguished university commented during a TV interview that Americans should be more humble. After all, he said, more than 50,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese died during the Vietnam War for no reason.

“Dropout factories” are common in California, where more than one in 10 high schools fits the description.

Only a small percentage of student activity fees at UNC system universities are actually distributed to student campus organizations.

Urgent action by campus administrators raises some concern whether, in the climate of fear caused by the Virginia Tech gunman’s rampage, there has been a rush to judgment that will lead to unintended consequences at some future date.

The Lakota East High School dramatic production of the Agatha Christie novel Ten Little Indians—initially cancelled by school administrators after it was called racially insensitive by a local NAACP leader—is back on, but with changes that imply the play will be compromised by political correctness.

My recent visit to a conference in Randolph gave me a glimpse of the kinds of individuals and groups who make up a large part of Vermont’s environmental Left.

Catholic families may find that Scholastic books may not help them educate their children.