General education doesn’t often make headlines. But thanks to the groundbreaking efforts in Colorado to ensure a rigorous statewide core curriculum, Colorado is making national news. At a time of breathtaking changes and ever-growing...
The body that oversees the 16-campus University of North Carolina needs no more than 15 members and local trustees should be given more authority, a new study says. The independent study released Monday by...
We hear a lot these days about the importance of diversity in ensuring that ideas are heard fairly. But the individuals who are most insistent about this are interested only in racial and sex...
At many colleges that allow alumni to elect some trustees, the races aren’t exactly exciting. An alumni committee typically nominates a slate of candidates who have worked their way up through the ranks, they issue statements...
Faced with steadily mounting evidence that the elite colleges really are politically one-sided and that students are feeling pressure to conform to their professors’ political views (see, for example, the American Council of Trustees...
Howard Kurtz’s article on left-leaning faculty [“College Faculties a Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds,” Style, March 29] makes it clear: University faculty are even more liberal than those he calls “conspiratorial conservatives” might have...
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