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Some Colleges Hold Tuition Down; Others Don’t

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National Review

George Leef

The Accreditation Reform Fight Looms

25.01.2025 10

National Review

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Absurdly Subjective College Admissions

24.01.2025 5

National Review

George Leef

The NIL Rule Changes More Than Just College Sports

21.01.2025 2

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George Leef

New Survey on College Student Attitudes — Good News or Bad?

17.01.2025 9

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We’re Winning against DEI, but Don’t Go Too Far

16.01.2025 20

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Why Colleges Resist Change

11.01.2025 3

National Review

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Why the Eruption of Antisemitism on Our Campuses?

09.01.2025 6

National Review

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What’s the Purpose of Higher Education?

It was once far more common for young Americans who wanted marketable skills to learn them on the job, and for those who wanted deeper learning in...

07.01.2025 50

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Why Not Have Three-Year Medical Schools?

Early in the last century, medical education came to be dominated by the medical profession’s main organization, the American Medical Association....

04.01.2025 2

National Review

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Would You Want Any of These People Teaching Your Student?

English was one of the fields first conquered by the Left in its long march through our institutions and it has steadily grown worse. Today,...

02.01.2025 5

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Higher Education Reforms We Hope to See Next Year

31.12.2024 3

National Review

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How Well Are Students Taught Economics Today?

A wide swath of college education has fallen under the control of “progressives” who use their courses to promote their statist ideas. But at...

28.12.2024 4

National Review

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States Begin to Turn Down the Demand for College Credentials

One reason why the college bubble kept expanding as long as it did was that employers (including governments) made it a requirement for applicants...

24.12.2024 30

National Review

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The Martin Center Is Looking for a Few Good Books

The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal has been amassing quite a library of books relating to higher education, but new ones (good and...

22.12.2024 4

National Review

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Plumbing the Depths of Our Dysfunctional Higher-Ed System

Higher education used to be a small but useful part of the United States. Then the Left began its long march through our institutions, with higher...

22.12.2024 4

National Review

George Leef

Florida Cleans Up the Curriculum

At most American colleges and universities, the Left has managed to smuggle propaganda for its belief system into the curriculum. Many students...

19.12.2024 1

National Review

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Thumbs Down on Trump’s Pick for Secretary of Labor

The Department of Labor is one of the numerous federal departments that ought not to exist. The feds have no constitutional warrant to intervene in...

18.12.2024 30

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Progressives Capture Another Elite School

One of the main goals of the so-called progressive movement, going back more than a century, was to capture our educational institutions and use...

17.12.2024 6

National Review

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An Alum Calls Out the President of the University of Texas

The Left’s “long march through the institutions” has been just as successful in “red” states as in “blue” ones. All they’ve had to do...

17.12.2024 6

National Review

George Leef

What’s the Point of the Department of Education?

When Jimmy Carter pushed for the creation of the federal Department of Education, he tried to make it sound like a move to lift educational...

17.12.2024 5

National Review

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Separate School and Sport

I once asked a professor who was originally from New Zealand what he thought about American college athletics. He said that he found it a bit...

14.12.2024 10

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Educators Need to Avoid the Certainty Trap

12.12.2024 3

National Review

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Paul Krugman — Goodbye and Good Riddance

Paul Krugman has just announced that he is retiring as a columnist for the New York Times, where he was a reliable mouthpiece for economic...

08.12.2024 5

National Review

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Should Colleges Adopt a Differential Tuition Policy?

Colleges have traditionally charged all students the same tuition, but perhaps that’s going to change. In today’s Martin Center article, Joe...

07.12.2024 3

National Review

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Two ‘Journalists’ Produce Sheer Nonsense

This week two so-called journalists embarrassed themselves in ways that exposed their naked need to defend, even at this late date, Joe Biden. In...

07.12.2024 20

National Review

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Woke Gender Madness Grips a California University

05.12.2024 10

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Looking Expectantly Ahead for Higher-Ed Reform

30.11.2024 4

National Review

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Professor Matthew Garrett Reflects on His Ordeal

28.11.2024 3

National Review

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Did the Fed Pave the Way for Trump’s Return?

28.11.2024 3

National Review

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The Washington Post Smears Linda McMahon

26.11.2024 4

National Review

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How to Improve Early-College Options

22.11.2024 10

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One of the Worst Court Decisions of All Time Faces Challenge

21.11.2024 5

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A College Republican Looks at His Overwhelmingly Leftist University

20.11.2024 10

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Modern Monetary Theory and the Democratic Debacle

20.11.2024 4

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Professor’s Lawsuit against University That Fired Him Can Continue

16.11.2024 2

National Review

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A Refutation of the ‘Trump Won Because of Racism’ Idea

12.11.2024 2

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Why Harris Lost

09.11.2024 5

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Why Did the Democrats Lose So Badly?

07.11.2024 3

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Colleges Are Ignoring the Court’s Decision against Racial Preferences

06.11.2024 1

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Universities Prefer to Build New Buildings Rather Than Maintain Old Ones

05.11.2024 2

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Expect Further Erosion of the First Amendment if Kamala Wins

04.11.2024 3

National Review

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A Rural Education

03.11.2024 20

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Making Rich People Pay ‘Their Fair Share’

02.11.2024 4

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Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Antisemitism on Campus

02.11.2024 1

National Review

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A University Board Actually Does Some Good

01.11.2024 2

National Review

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The Dangerous Trap of Charitable Foundations

31.10.2024 2

National Review

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Why Are We So Badly Governed?

28.10.2024 9

National Review

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A Case Study in Special-Interest Legislation

26.10.2024 7

National Review

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Workforce Education Beats ‘College for All’

26.10.2024 4

National Review

George Leef