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Teaching Students to Hate America

The left’s long march through our institutions has been extraordinarily successful, particularly with our colleges and universities. With the...

06.11.2026 9

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Should Colleges ‘Run Like Businesses’?

Among the many criticisms of our colleges is that they are wasteful because they aren’t run on business principles. No bottom line, so...

05.11.2026 8

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The Persistence of DEI Mandates

Many accrediting organizations have embraced the DEI ideology, and like good progressives, insist that schools build it into their programs. The...

04.11.2026 10

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How Universities Can Protect Free Speech

Many of America’s colleges and universities are in disrepute because they have become so hostile toward freedom of speech. Reasoned argumentation is...

02.11.2026 9

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Colleges are Responsible for Creating the Conditions That Lead to Cheating

College faculty and administrators spend a lot of time bemoaning cheating by students, now far easier than in the past due to artificial intelligence....

30.10.2026 10

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Why Can’t Trustees and Professors Get Along?

College and university faculty sometimes regard initiatives by trustees as ill-informed meddling in their business, while trustees often think that...

23.10.2026 10

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Public Universities Shouldn’t Be in the Radio Business

Colleges and universities have often expanded far beyond their fundamental educational missions, into ancillary activities, such as golf courses and...

22.10.2026 9

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University’s DEI Mania Lands It in Trouble

Many colleges and universities have an obsession with the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda. One of the worst is the University of Delaware. In...

21.10.2026 10

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Our Medical Schools Aren’t Serving the Public Interest

What’s wrong with American medical schools? In today’s Martin Center article, Jay Greene addresses that question. The big problem is that we are...

18.10.2026 30

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Big Labor Flexes Its Muscles in a Small State

Labor unions are all about two things: money and control. The problem is that they go about achieving their aims through coercive means, often...

17.10.2026 20

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Accreditors Pushing Ideology, Not Competence

In our education system, we have institutional accreditors (evaluating schools as a whole) and programmatic accreditors (evaluating specific...

15.10.2026 10

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Colleges Face Skepticism About Their Value

Between the demographic cliff (fewer young people in the population) and the perception that getting a degree costs more than it’s worth, college...

14.10.2026 20

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UVA Law School Appears to Continue Discriminatory Hiring

The University of Virginia is supposed to have ended its discriminatory hiring practices, but like so many other schools, its leaders apparently...

12.10.2026 10

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Education Can’t Be Value-Neutral

Schools and colleges may say that they simply impart knowledge and don’t mess around with values. In today’s Martin Center article, D. P. Curtin...

09.10.2026 10

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The DEI Agenda Conflicts with Yeshiva University’s Mission

The divisive, anti-American ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion doesn’t belong in any educational institution, and that includes a...

08.10.2026 20

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Teacher Education Done Right

Many teacher preparation programs in the U.S. are hotbeds of leftism. Students are imbued with worthless notions about teaching along with big doses...

07.10.2026 20

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The Continuing Battle over Standardized Testing

The crowd that hates standardized testing, calling it racist and unfair, was riding high for several years, as school after school dropped the tests...

06.10.2026 10

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Universities Need to Integrate AI

Artificial intelligence is a game changer in the world of education. How can universities put it to good use and crack down on bad uses? That’s the...

05.10.2026 20

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Professors’ Union Endorses Far-Left Candidate

The American Association of University Professors is now mainly a leftist political outfit, just like the National Education Association. The latest...

02.10.2026 20

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The Trump Administration Moves to Improve College Accreditation

College accreditation never did much to ensure quality education. As long as most college officials were committed to high standards, it did not...

01.10.2026 20

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Feeble Excuses for Keeping Syllabi Secret

Should public universities allow individuals to see what they are teaching? Of course they should, and many states have laws mandating syllabus...

30.09.2026 20

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Let’s Stop Obsessing Over ‘Prestige’ Colleges and Universities

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, blah, blah, blah — our national conversation about higher education is dominated by the supposedly elite schools, and...

25.09.2026 20

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Three-Year College Gaining Traction

Traditionally, it has taken four years to earn a college degree — but what is so important about that number? Lots of students actually hang around...

24.09.2026 30

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The Insufferable Wokeness of Bates College

Bates College is a prestigious liberal arts college in Maine. Years ago, its leadership decided to go woke with a panoply of programs and policies to...

18.09.2026 20

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General Education Requirements Have Become a Joke

Many of our colleges and universities have figured out that they can attract and keep more students (and their money) by offering them more...

17.09.2026 20

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Are Freshman ‘First Year Experience’ Courses Worthwhile?

Many colleges and universities now require incoming students (called freshmen in the old days) to take a course on what being in college entails — a...

16.09.2026 20

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UNC Pulls the Plug on a Chinese Partner University

There is nothing wrong with college programs that allow students to study abroad, but in recent years, programs that connect with Chinese universities...

14.09.2026 20

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Unions Once Again Using Political Power to Keep Workers Ignorant of Their Rights

In 2018, the Supreme Court decided Janus v. AFSCME, in which the plaintiff, a governmental worker in Illinois, objected to being compelled to pay...

12.09.2026 30

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Using AI to Evaluate Faculty Political Orientation

Many college professors favor progressive policies, and a number of them don’t hesitate to use the classroom to push their views. For evidence of...

10.09.2026 20

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American Colleges Should Revive Foreign Language Study

As our colleges and universities have watered down their content over the years to make room for fluff courses and politicized junk, foreign language...

09.09.2026 30

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New Science Ph.D. Program Saves Time and Money

The traditional academic science Ph.D. has been in decline for years. Some programs have been infected with DEI madness, and many graduates have...

04.09.2026 30

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Good Curricular Moves at UT-Austin

Even in red states, leftists have exerted their malign influence over higher education. The once-formidable University of Texas has long suffered...

02.09.2026 20

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Graduate Degrees Can Be a Waste of Time and Money

Many American students are lured into graduate degree programs with the notion that more education always pays off. This or that degree, it’s often...

01.09.2026 20

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A Grievous Gap in One State’s Higher Ed

In today’s Martin Center article, Christopher Schilling explains that, though North Carolina “requires Holocaust education for public school...

28.08.2026 20

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Even Democrats Are Souring on Higher Education

For many years, a large number of Americans had a positive view of our higher education system. Then, due largely to federal meddling, the system...

27.08.2026 20

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Civics Education Belongs in Small Colleges, Too

A good trend in higher education in recent years is the rise of programs to teach students about civics. Long ignored in schools and colleges (while...

26.08.2026 20

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Let’s Preserve Civics Education Programs

In a long overdue counterattack against “progressive” thought control in our colleges and universities, some schools have established programs for...

21.08.2026 30

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College Entrance Exams Shouldn’t Be a Political Issue

Remember taking the SAT or the ACT when you were in high school — the tests that colleges used to help decide if you had the academic preparation...

20.08.2026 20

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Florida Leads the Way on Higher Ed and Workforce Development

It was not so long ago that most Americans thought that college was for the smart kids and, well, too bad for those who weren’t college material....

19.08.2026 30

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The Case for College Choice

One of the better public policy moves in recent decades has been Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), which allow parents to save in tax-free accounts...

18.08.2026 30

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Representative Stefanik Probes the Disaster of Higher Education

Elise Stefanik is a Harvard graduate who represents an upstate New York district in Congress. She took the lead in questioning three university...

13.08.2026 30

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Comparing Socialism with Interventionist Capitalism

With so many young (and clueless) Americans clamoring for socialism, it’s worth asking about the likely consequences of such a move. What happens to...

11.08.2026 30

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Understanding the Founders Through Their Books

Leftists would have us believe that the Founders were a bunch of greedy white racists whose only concern in establishing the United States was to...

09.08.2026 30

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Glimmers of Hope in Higher Ed

In a few states, schools and programs focused on teaching civics have arisen, giving students an alternative to the steady drumbeat of America-bashing...

07.08.2026 30

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Great Books Programs Aren’t for Everyone

Many who reject progressive ideology embrace the concept of great books education as a counter to the leftist project of getting students to hate our...

07.08.2026 30

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Student Writing Skills and the Best Uses of AI

Most students these days are tempted to use artificial intelligence to do their work for them, merely cutting and pasting what they see on their...

06.08.2026 30

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The School for Civic Life Is an Asset to UNC

When it was announced a few years ago that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was going to create the School for Civic Life and...

03.08.2026 30

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When Academics Deny Reality

There’s an old saying that goes: “an idea so ridiculous only an academic could believe it.” It seems to apply frequently as more professors sink...

31.07.2026 20

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Too Much Foreign Influence in American Higher Education

Several foreign governments have invested heavily in our colleges and universities, intent on influencing students and the public in general into...

30.07.2026 30

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A Surprising Defeat for Race-Based Scholarships

When the Supreme Court ruled against race-based college admissions in 2023, Chief Justice Roberts wrote that it was time to eliminate racial...

29.07.2026 30

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