Faculty Lounge North Carolina’s Approval of For-Profit Colleges is Anticompetitive Spencer Irvine October 26, 2015 Why is the state of North Carolina picking winners and losers in education? The free market should dictate, not some…
Perspectives Students School UNC on 9-11 Malcolm A. Kline September 24, 2015 Fundamental law of physics: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. “At the start of the fall…
Faculty Lounge The Problems with Getting a Graduate School Education Spencer Irvine September 20, 2015 It is a good look at how flawed the graduate school educational (and job) experience is in today’s ever-changing world.
Perspectives The Decline of English Departments Spencer Irvine September 13, 2015 The John William Pope Center’s Jay Schalin recently published a report detailing the decline of America’s college English departments. More…
Faculty Lounge Federal Education Rules now lead to Free Speech Violations Spencer Irvine September 3, 2015 Federal education regulations paved the way for infringing on our free speech on college campuses.
Faculty Lounge No Special Treatment for Political Activists Spencer Irvine July 27, 2015 There is a controversy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where the Poverty Center is going to be closed,…
Faculty Lounge Heckler’s Veto on College Campuses Exposes Millennials’ Ignorance Spencer Irvine July 9, 2015 In the search for greater ideas, college students today are actually narrow-minded as they exercise heckler’s veto and limit free…
Faculty Lounge Wharton Professor asks, Will College Pay Off? Spencer Irvine July 3, 2015 Many agree that by making college more accessible, it is actually flooding the labor market with college graduates to the…
Faculty Lounge I Wish My Job Didn’t Exist, says College Administrator Spencer Irvine April 30, 2015 A college administrator at Norwich University makes a good point: administration jobs at colleges are all about dealing with regulations and…
Faculty Lounge When taxpayers subsidize ill-considered degree programs Spencer Irvine April 24, 2015 As the John William Pope Center wrote: “Each year, UNC officials pitch new degree programs to the system’s Board of…